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Category: Food
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Coconut Meringue Pie
As those who read this blog for the recipes know, I love to make pie. Fortunately, my first Reader loves to eat pie, and this is his most-favorite flavor of that dessert. Baked goods spark an odd response from folks. Most of them love to eat them, but insist ‘I’m not a baker!’ and don’t…
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Eat This While you Read That: Amanda S Green
Finally, after a day of cooking, I can present the post and pictures! I started out this morning by making the stock for the chicken and dumplings, which recipe you can find here. Amanda S Green, one of my favorite authors, who also writes as Sam Schall if you like space opera, was good enough…
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Making Stock of Things
I’m going to blog a little differently today, as I am looking outside at 4-5 fresh fallen inches of snow, and more coming down on that. In addition to the ‘you ARE staying home today’ message this sends, I have had a very busy week in which I did not cook. Well, yes, there was…
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Eat This While you Read That: Marko Kloos
And here’s the dish that began this series for me. Marko Kloos shared a lovely picture of his breakfast one snowy recent morning, and the First Reader looked at it and asked if we could find some of that jam and try it… As I was shopping online for it (it was snowy here, too!…
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Eat This while you Read That: Schlock Mercenary
Schlock in the Kitchen Howard Tayler was good enough to give me several suggestions for cooking from the schlockiverse. There is a lot of food in the fifteen years of the daily Schlock Mercenary, and it was fun to figure out just which one I was going to do. I didn’t have time to do…
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Sometimes it’s not About the Food
Some days, it’s about the process. The First Reader and I had a very nice lunch-fest yesterday at Yung’s Café in Fairborn, our favorite Korean restaurant. I ordered the grilled croaker, which was a thing of beauty. Normally we chat while we are eating, but this was a remarkably silent meal for us, because I…
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Sometimes it's not About the Food
Some days, it’s about the process. The First Reader and I had a very nice lunch-fest yesterday at Yung’s Café in Fairborn, our favorite Korean restaurant. I ordered the grilled croaker, which was a thing of beauty. Normally we chat while we are eating, but this was a remarkably silent meal for us, because I…
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All-American Apple Pie
Apples, Pie Crust, and suddenly you have something magical. This started with me picking up a bagful of granny smith apples on sale. My First Reader loves pie, and apple is one of his favorites. He likes granny smith as eating apples, I prefer mine a little sweeter. But for baking, the granny smith is…
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Pad Thai
This dish, for me, is a way to consume leftovers and a delicious option at that. Although you can follow a recipe, I don’t usually, having made it enough times to prepare it by taste and feel. Since I was cooking this one with Mom, who has celiac disease, we used rice noodles, but I’ve…
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Saag Paneer
When I went to Oregon, Mom had messaged me asking if I’d show her a couple of recipes while I was there, and wanting to know what she should buy for them. Now, I know perfectly well she’s capable of cooking them without me, but it was really nice to spend some time in the…
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‘Tis the Season for Fruitcake
So this is a recipe for fruitcake. Only it isn’t what you’re thinking of. This is my Dorothy-Mom’s recipe which was handed down to her, and which I believe has it’s origins in a time when fruit and sugar were scarce. The resulting cake is sweet, so sweet, dense, rich, chewy, and absolutely does not…