Every week I am going to try posting a tentative menu plan. Right now, everything is usually scrawled all over half dozen sticky notes, and we all know how organized those can be. :-p So maybe by posting things here, I won’t forget what on earth I’m making for dinner 5 days ahead! If you [...]
February 25, 2012
Late Season Snowfall = Urge to Cook
What is it about those teeny tiny flakes that inspire a flurry of cooking? We’re getting several inches of snow today, perhaps more snow in this one day that we have had all winter long so far! It’s been a very brown and gray winter, that’s for sure. And as I watch the little flakes [...]
February 20, 2012
New Favorite Recipe Website
I found this website purely by chance, doing a search for apple cobbler. Oh my word, how could I have missed this site before?! It’s Taste of Home. I’m sure you have heard of it– it’s a site based on the popular magazine. i used to get the magazine but stopped when the subscription cost [...]
February 17, 2012
Greek Macaroni Bake
I saw this recipe on Living the Gourmet, a wonderful cooking blog run by my pal Catherine Pappas. That woman knows HOW TO COOK. I was recently in a bind for dinner time (had no meat thawed and no vegetables around!) and I remembered her wonderful recipe. As isusual, I amended it a little bit [...]
February 10, 2012
A Failed Experiment
Here it is. I found a recipe for macaroni and cheese and tinkered with it. Unfortunately, my tinkering ruined the recipe. Oh it looks good enough. What dish doesn’t look scrumptious with lots of cheese, eh? Shesh, even a criminal background check looks better with a little cheese, right?! But for starters– it’s the wrong [...]
February 6, 2012
Random Food Thoughts
The husband has been home nights more frequently so I’ve been cooking a formal dinner more often. Dinner is my least favorite meal of the day, mostly because I have to cook it, lol. I could clobber the nut who ever came up with the idea of cooking and eating the heaviest meal at the [...]
February 4, 2012
Organic Eggs– Any Difference?
I just started purchasing eggs from a local farmer, a certified organic farm. The eggs are a little pricier than grocery-store eggs, but I am happy to directly support a local farm (and get fresh eggs, too). I wish we could have our own chickens. I live in the suburbs, though, and chickens are verboten. [...]
February 4, 2012
A New Twist to Ziti
I can’t say I am terribly fond of baked ziti. It tends to be dry and a bit tasteless to me. I am very find of Italian dishes but baked ziti seems to be very… American. lol. American style is great for a citizen watch or architecture, but I think American food tends to be [...]
January 30, 2012
The Art of Making Perfect Beef Stew
I’ve been cooking for over 25 years now. One of my first dishes was beef stew. It’s taken me many long years to master the taste, but I have done it. Beef stew, meet perfection. Being the generous cook that I am, I will share with you my particular secrets. Be aware that every tip [...]
January 23, 2012
What Do You Do in Your Dining Room?
Like many Americans, we live in an old home. Ours is 160 years old. The house is a “middle income” house and is less than 1600 square feet. There are six of us here, not including the cat, two dogs and bird. It’s *kinda* cramped, actually. So my dining room does double-duty. We eat our [...]
March 9, 2012
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