Wow Chow Cooking

This is one of my old tried and true recipes. I’ve been making variations of it for years. We love it, and it is SO good on a cold night! Pardon my ad hoc measuring units– I rarely use measuring cups so the units here are good guesses. Use your own creativity a little, and [...]

As is my custom, I took a “basic” clam chowder recipe and tinkered with it somewhat. The original recipe calls for bacon, green peppers, and minced clams. I replaced the bacon with sausage, the green peppers with red peppers, and added minced clams but also added some leftover whiting fillets. The additions made for a [...]

I’ve been testing various crockpot meals from my iPhone CrockPot Recipe Finder app. I like the app because it makes an automatic shopping list for me, so I don’t have to do all the organizing and writing. I did a review of the app, you can click the link to read it. Well, this time [...]

I mentioned earlier that I downloaded a new app for the iPhone, the Crock-Pot Slow Cooker Recipe Finder app. I’ve been toodling around with it a lot. I’ve built a list of favorite recipes from it. The best thing I like about the app is the ability to save a recipe, and the app with [...]

It looks terrible! But it was incredibly savory. The kids moaned when they saw it, and it is awfully ugly, but we had no leftovers! I call it Chili in a Wok, because it tastes like chili but it’s not as tomatoe-y. It was really easy to make and it used up some stuff we [...]

My husband was STARVING and had only a few minutes between jobs to eat. I had nothing prepared. As a matter of fact, all I had were some spurious leftover fragments, an old roast beef hump that I had to cook soon, and some bottles of witch hazel and salicylic acid wash in the fridge [...]

Whenever I read the word “shrimp” in a recipe, my eyes glaze over and I pass along. I love shrimp-don’t get me wrong- but all the recipes that call for it are usually complicated uber-gourmet dishes that take 5-6 hours to make and 5-6 minutes to eat. NOT. FUN. I don’t like cooking *that* much, [...]

We’re cooking again! After the massive 4-month kitchen renovation, we’re back at the stove. This recipe is perfect for a cool, autumn day. Chicken soup can be bland (which is why I don’t make it very often), but I have found that the Salamida Pinch seasoning makes the big difference. The soup is very savory [...]

We usually use the grill all summer long every summer, just because I don’t like the oven heating up the house…. but we are grilling more frequently now that I couldn’t use my oven even if I wanted to. I used to LOVE grilled food, but it has kinda lost it’s charm for me. The [...]

I love spiedies. They are a cultural dish in the Southern Tier of New York State. All the fairgrounds and regattas offer them… oooo the smell of them would drive us mad. Spiedies are very easy to make, and they are inexpensive (well, more inexpensive than best wrinkle cream!); I usually buy my meat in [...]