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Category: Cooking
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Composing a Stew
Playing with flavors in the kitchen is a happy place for me. I’d come home after the Blanket Fort livestream yesterday, and was standing in the kitchen happily pulling odd containers out of the fridge, and possibly humming to myself, when the First Reader walked in. I looked up at him, giggling. “I’m composing!” He…
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Revolutionary War Chicken
The First Reader and I were driving home Sunday Evening after a lovely visit with friends, and keeping each other awake on the long dark roads. One of the topics was food, naturally. We talked about planning the coming week’s menu (we rarely stick to it, but it’s helpful anyway). I suggested that when we…
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Wing wing… hewwo?
The Little Man made dinner tonight. Well. He had some help. The problem isn’t that he can’t cook. Rather the opposite. He’s an ambitious cook with a fair amount of training, not just from me, but taking cooking classes. He lacks the experience to know where his limits are, so he’ll bite off more than…
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A Mole in my Kitchen
No, not a spying underground creature, although I got jokes as I was posting process photos when I forgot to put the accent over that e. I mean the very special Mexican sauce, from toasted dried chilies, seeds, and chocolate. When I hear the term ‘slow food’ molé is what comes immediately to my mind.…
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Eat This While You Read That: MCA Hogarth
Ove the years of doing this series, I like to think I’ve gotten much-improved at food photography. However… this was a challenge! It’s delicious, but making it look as lovely as it tasted took some thought and more than one attempt. Ask me if I minded sipping variations… go on! Try it yourself! When I…
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Cherry Rum Rice Pudding
As I’m working my way through the Egg List, moving in random motion rather than top to bottom, I’m finding myself revisiting old favorites as well as making new things. Rice puddings come in a couple of forms. One is a stove-top pudding, light and fluffy. This one is the other sort, a one-bowl baked…
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Eat This While You Read That: Dorothy Grant
As I was gearing back up into the series, I realized I hadn’t yet featured Dorothy’s books. Since we swap recipes fairly often, I wasn’t sure what I’d get when I asked her for a dish to go along with her latest book, Between Two Graves. She neatly tied the recipe to the theme of…
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Scotch Woodcock
This is another fun entry to the egg recipe list, although I have a feeling it will be somewhat controversial! You can find the whole list of 99 Ways to Make Eggs here. In this time of recession and belt-tightening, eggs remain an inexpensive protein source and a good choice for grocery budgets. Scotch Woodcock…
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Eat This While You Read That: CV Walter
This one was a first, in that I got to hand some of the food I’d prepared for the blog post to the author! And get squee‘s in response. Also, this is a delicious treat. Both the food, and the book! When I am making baklava I don’t make the filo dough. There are some…
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Custard Sauce
A shocking amount of my meal planning pivots on ‘what needs to be used up before it goes off?’ and I know I’m not alone in that. This recipe evolved out of having five small Granny Smith Apples that had been in the fruit bowl for some time. The nice thing about baking apples is…
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Cheese Souffle
This is part of the Egg series, where I’m cooking my way through the list of 99 Ways to Cook an Egg. With inflation driving costs up, even eggs aren’t as cheap as they once were, but they are still an inexpensive protein option, and as you will see, an elegant dinner is quite manageable! …
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Eat This While You Read That: Becky Jones
Today’s dish and book come from the inestimable Becky Jones, and really, it’s appropriate that I should be publishing this on Independence Day. As a former political science professor, she’s intimately familiar with the whys and wherefores of this great holiday. You won’t find politics in her Academic Magic series, but as the title should…