It’s been almost a year, but I’ve finally figured out where I went wrong with last year’s Cinco De Mayo spread. I set up my fondue pot and put cheese in it to become all melty for the tacos and nachos. I used Queso Fresco, which has a lovely lovely taste. But it didn’t melt […]
I’m still dealing with the lack of interest in food. I don’t watch food network as much as before, nor do I surf the food blogs as much. If something strikes my fancy in the little perusing I actually do, I’ll throw myself into it with zeal. However, nothing has really struck my fancy for […]
I’ve not had near the interest in food that I previously did. I do still occasionally get excited enough to cook, maybe once a week. Early this week I tried out a recipe from Paula Dean for an italianish chicken cordon bleu. It was ok, but caused the reflux to kick up and has thus […]
I had planned to spend weekends in January learning to bake bread from scratch and to do it well. I’ve done it a few times and it turns out ok, but nothing to praise. But, like most plans, it had to change. Sometime just after christmas, I developed a pain in my back. As the […]
In an unending quest to make everyone on the floor weigh 954 pounds, the ladies up front declared that each day from today until our Christmas break someone would bring treats for the floor. I signed up for today, I figured that if I went first, I wouldn’t be compared to anyone else’s cooking abilities. […]
I went to Gran’s for turkey day, that means that my own turkey had to wait. We cooked it today, just a turkey breast. Pop rigged us up a safe turkey frying contraption rather like Alton’s. And of course, we did that thing that all people do when they deep fry a turkey – we […]
Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you try to asphyxiate your guests. This weekend was filled with experimentation for me. Let’s start with the pumpkin. Or not. See, I went to the farmer’s market in search of pie pumpkins. I was determined to give another shot to making a pumpkin pie from scratch, it’s […]
Dad and I have been rather bummed since all of the Winn Dixie stores here have gone belly up. This means no more Palmetto Farms Pimento Cheese for us. It truly is the best brand that we’ve ever found and we’ve tried nearly all of them available in this market. Over the weekend, I picked […]
I think I overdid it in the kitchen pre-bbq. I didn’t cook anything for the next week and then took off on the road trip of love with the sweetest boyfriend for two wonderful weeks. The only kitchen activity I really did during the vacation was the mixing up of a black bean salad on […]
Sometimes things don’t work out exactly as you planned. I found a recipe for a roasted vegetable salad that sounded just scrumptious. How could you go wrong with asparagus and red peppers? Well, they weren’t the problem, per se. The problem turned out to be the eggplant. Folks have told me since that I overcooked […]