Posted in carrots, cheap meals, chicken, citrus, comfort, food to share, leftovers, make and store recipes, soup on Nov 13th, 2009 2 Comments »
Fall is fleeting, and winter is closing in on us. One of my favorite things about this part of the year is most people consider it acceptable – even gratifying – to eat soup at least once a week. National Soup Swap Day will be somewhere towards the end of January. I’ll be hosting one [...]
Posted in beef, comfort, sides, soup on Oct 28th, 2009 2 Comments »
French Onion Soup has always been one of my favorites. It’s warm, comforting, and a perfect accompaniment for everything from Caesar salad to a giant Ribeye Steak. Traditionally it’s served topped with a crouton then shredded Gruyere as shown in the picture. I’m not a huge fan of soggy bread, but I love dipping so [...]
Posted in chicken, comfort, food to share, make and store recipes, mushrooms on Oct 1st, 2009 2 Comments »
My sister had the recipe for college chicken casserole on an index card in her recipe box. The original source was a Cooking Light magazine issue from May 1998. Some time during the last decade, her index card was spilled on and only partially legible. Luckily, nearly everything survives on the Internet. I found a [...]
Posted in beef, cheap meals, comfort, Freezes Well, make and store recipes, soup on Sep 23rd, 2009 4 Comments »
When trying to recreate a recipe, it’s probably a good idea to have tasted it sometime in the last decade. I have this glorious memory of the Beef and Barley Soup served at the Madrigal dinners in my high school. I was a lowly serving wench back in those days, kept out of the kitchen [...]
Posted in asparagus, citrus, comfort, sauce on Sep 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
I’ve always shyed away from hollandaise sauce in restaurants, mainly, because I thought it was a yellow mayonnaise. The horror, I have a life altering fear of mayonnaise. I’m working on it, albeit halfheartedly, since for health reasons, why would one ever attempt to learn to love mayonnaise? That said, I like butter, I really [...]
Posted in beef, black eyed peas, comfort, leftovers, sides on Sep 14th, 2009 No Comments »
Friends, I’ve been lost in a book. Rather a series. Rather several series, but usually, I can suck myself out, back to the real world as I know it. These last few days have been like childhood, only instead of me gasping exasperated at one of my sisters lost in Gone With the Wind, or [...]
Posted in cheap meals, cheese, comfort, easy meals, turkey on Sep 2nd, 2009 1 Comment »
College Football Season is a mere one day away. Tomorrow there will be live football back on the air. Since we have a Duck in the family now, I’ll probably be watching the Oregon game tomorrow. And Utah is playing tomorrow, too. Since they’re still pitching a fit about the BCS results, I’ll have to [...]
Posted in comfort, dessert on Aug 30th, 2009 2 Comments »
A bar of bittersweet chocolate has been mocking me in the pantry for months. Bake me! Bake me! It cries. I’ve taken it out at least four times only to find myself too worn out to create yet another set of dishes. Some how the idea of cleaning the Kitchen Aid and a double boiler [...]
Posted in comfort, food to share, soup, spinach, vegetables on Aug 26th, 2009 3 Comments »
The fridge has been cleaned out and restocked, and I’m on my way back up the ladder after a dismal week of culinary mishaps. It happens to everyone, I suppose, but for some reason I seem to take the hit harder than most. I screwed up egg salad for the love of criminy. That is [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, comfort, food to share on Aug 8th, 2009 4 Comments »
Biscuits are something people develop extremely strong opinions about and at the same time such an intense love affair for the preferred style it becomes difficult to even appreciate other methods. When my sister’s husband wanted to move from the city of San Francisco out into the woods to have trees and nature and a [...]
