11th Day of Thanksgiving, plus baked ziti
Today I’m thankful that my late mother was such a good cook. I know that’s the reason I became a good cook, too, and that’s something I’ve really enjoyed. Truth be told, I believe I care way more about it than she did. I think she found it gratifying to cook good food, especially for […]
Mmmm…
I read the Foodie With Family blog faithfully (really, love her!), and last week she posted this about Bo Ssäm (Korean Pork Roast Lettuce Wraps). It looked so luscious, and I’m all about the putting the meat on at a low temperature and letting it cook all day thing*, so I was hooked. I’ve also […]
Stream of Consciousness II
The NHL playoffs have started. I’m disappointed with Anaheim. I so want Detroit to be eliminated in this first round. Don’t care that the Stars now have a Detroit guy as GM, or perhaps kind of because of it. On the other hand, now that the Stars will no longer be part of the Pacific […]
Follow up
The corned beef was great. I bought two, while Kroger had them on sale, and I baked the smaller (2 lbs pre-cooked) one for St. Paddy’s Day. It was delicious, fall-apart tender, with intense, rich corned beef flavor. The mashed potatoes were , from Cook’s Illustrated Best Recipes and, really, there’s no way they’re not going […]
Corned beef & dog
Soooo…what’s been going on with you? Here? Oh, not much. I rescued a dog. A nasty dirty, horribly matted Shih Tzu*, who was moseying down Johnson Road (my street) in Southlake. I was driving home Tuesday afternoon when he wandered into my lane and started walking towards me as I approached. My choices were to […]
Mystery dinner
So you take a grass-fed, antibiotic-free cow and butcher it. Cut it into more or less standard cuts, then take everything that’s left over and cut that into small pieces. Slap all those together, label it, “Stew meat,” and let some hapless home cook try to make something from it. I don’t doubt the quality […]
Chicken & dumplings
At my friend Marion‘s request, here’s my absolutely bitchin’ recipe for chicken and dumplings. Well, not so much my recipe as Southern Living‘s, published in their 1981 Annual Recipes (yeah, I’m old). I could have taken a picture of this last night, since that’s what we had for dinner, but I didn’t. Next time. (Rich […]
Espresso, or why my kitchen looks that way
This is like mine. You can buy this one for $17 on eBay About a hundred years ago, I was given an espresso machine. It was a little Krups home espresso maker. Back in those days, it was considered a nice enough home machine. I had just discovered cappuccino—in Milan, thank you very much—and was thrilled […]
This is going to be easier than I thought
Rich cleaned out some bookshelves over the weekend (oy, huge mess in the living room for a few hours). After going through the giant stack he pulled out, he came in and deposited a stack of those -type books—you know, the big, thin paperbacks that were always some kind of How To guide or basic […]
When I don’t feel like cooking
Cooking dinner can be a challenge. Not that it’s especially hard to do, most of the time—particularly for those of us with home offices, who can slip out to put the potatoes on or turn down the oven when we need to. It’s the dailiness of the thing. Having to come up with something for […]
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