We’ve still had some pretty cool weather here in Seattle - it’s still a bit too cold to plant tender veggies in the garden, but the trees are leafing out and everything looks very lush and green. (The picture above is of one of my tomato plants, spending its fourth night outside - it’s rainy [...]
We had part of a container of strawberries that I knew we weren’t going to eat before they went bad, so I made a tiny batch of jam. It’s really easy, and homemade jam is WAY better than storebought. And seriously, do not be intimidated by the jam-making process - you don’t have to make [...]
We love galettes - they’re the perfect pie for lazy people. You make a soft pie dough, smoosh it out into a circle on some parchment, throw your filling in the middle, then fold the edges over, leaving the middle open. Toss it in the oven, go have a glass of wine, or cook dinner, [...]
As promised, here’s a soup recipe that uses the chicken stock you made from the bones of the chicken you roasted.
Black beans are my favorite kind of bean - I use them for cold bean salads in the summer, and in quesadillas, and they’re perfect for soup. It’s nice to have some canned black beans [...]
(Chick pic via Erika at Redshirt Knitting)
Here are the promised instructions for making chicken stock - another easy project, you just throw things together and mostly ignore it for a few hours, totally my kind of cooking.
Put the carcass and drippings from your roasted chicken in a stock pot - mine holds 12 quarts. If [...]
In the comments to the roast chicken post, Tom suggested putting duxelles under the skin of the chicken. Duxelles is a kind of paste of mushrooms, chopped finely and sautéed slowly until pretty much all the moisture is gone. You end up with a really wonderful, dense flavor, and it can be used it in [...]
Alright, you guys, instead of buying cheap and yet disgusting fast food (and I totally suspect Kaden of posting that stuff just to get a rise out of me) - go to the store, buy some Italian sausage, mushrooms, a package of frozen spinach, a 28-oz can of crushed tomatoes, a package of fettucine, and [...]
We’re usually in a rush on weekday mornings, and the kidlet gets grumpy if he’s always presented with a bowl of cold cereal. Today I spent 1/2 hour hanging out with the waffle iron, and we now have a big ziploc of waffles in the freezer, ready to throw into the toaster to reheat them.
Waffles [...]
I love good food, and I like to cook, but sometimes I get really busy and suddenly it’s dinnertime and the kid is hungry and I got nothin’ - so we do what everyone does and order pizza. We like the good stuff, no Pizza Hut for us, and we tip the delivery guy pretty [...]
