Category: Food

This isn’t so much a recipe as it is an extrapolation of a recipe. Cheesecake is a very flexible dessert, lending itself very well to additions of other flavors, while being perfect delicious on it’s own. I blogged the cheesecake filling earlier this year, so start there… Once you have the crust started – and…

White Gravy

Apr 11, 2016

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in Cooking, Curmudgeon’s Corner, Food, Recipe

One of the things my First Reader loves to cook is a white milk gravy. No sausage, he insists, it’s better without it. His mother taught him to make it, his grandmother made it, and each generation has complained that their gravy was never as good as the one that came before it. How far…

Eat this While You Read That: Nathan Lowell

Mar 30, 2016

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I’d discovered Nathan Lowell‘s space opera series last year after seeing several people recommend it, and promptly binge-read it after a tentative first dip into Quarter Share, the first book. He writes a well-paced story with great characterization that will draw you along, I thoroughly enjoyed reading the whole series. He was quite amenable to…

The Author’s Plate

Mar 29, 2016

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I blogged earlier this week about the First Reader’s dish – a hearty serving of spicy chorizo nachos. When we’d picked up the ingredients for it, we’d also gotten what I needed for this meal, which led to me joking that we are in a mixed marriage. No, it’s not that one is republican and…

First Reader’s Nachos

Mar 26, 2016

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A while back I introduced my dear First Reader to chorizo. He’s fallen in love with it. I don’t mind – he doesn’t neglect me, and the spicy sausage is really good in a lot of meals. We picked up a bunch on sale, and he invented a nacho recipe using chorizo. He cooked it,…

Eat This While You Read That: Jason Rennie

Mar 16, 2016

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in Books, Cooking, fiction, Food, Recipe

I’ve expanded this series far beyond the traditional author roles, seeking to promote people who bring stories to readers. I’ve featured a long-form editor, Toni Weisskopf, whose efforts keep Baen Books the great place to find fun reads that it is. Now, I’m bringing you a gentleman who edits and brings you the short-form fiction…

Eat This While You Read That: Pat Patterson

Mar 9, 2016

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I haven’t always done these posts for authors – there has been a webcomic artist, and an editor, and… and today I’m cooking to highlight the work of a reviewer. I’d call him a book critic except that’s a shallow description of what he is and what he does – because he doesn’t critique in…

Eat This While You Read That: Stryder Dancewolffe

Mar 2, 2016

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Firstly, thank you to my readers for their patience, I’m afraid that my schedule is going to remain loose for a while as I’m focusing more on school than the blog. But I have to keep cooking, so cooking with a dual purpose is good! Stryder Dancewolffe gave me a rough sketch of a recipe…

King Cake

Feb 24, 2016

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The First Reader has declared this his new favorite cake. I fell in love with it, too. It’s sweet but not tooth-achingly so. The lemon and nutmeg scented ‘cake’ is to die for and the sweet creamy filling is like the best danishes. It takes some work but it’s so worth it. Only it’s not…

Eat This While You Read That: Julie Frost

Feb 17, 2016

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I met Julie Frost at LTUE last year, and then when her first novel came out, based on listening to her being funny and witty on a panel, grabbed the book. I discovered to my delight that she could write as well as she can talk – hey! There are people who can’t you…

Gummy Robots

Feb 7, 2016

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