Last Saturday at the Farmers’ Market, I bought half a chicken from Matt Smith. He grows big fat birds, so a half chicken was probably at least 3 pounds, a.k.a. as big as a whole grocery store chicken, a fryer anyways. I roasted it, while I was at work, on time bake in the oven, […]
I was thinking about writing about all the haters I’ve been observing recently – it’s an election year, and the Republicans who are running are running some pretty nasty ads. My current “favorite” is the one by Scott Walker, a candidate for governor, who’s the current county supervisor for Milwaukee County, where they have the […]
Reading this article by Marcelle Richards of Gastroapocalypse Test Kitchen, on working up a recipe for parsnip-pink-peppercorn cake, inspired by carrot cake, made me realize that I haven’t been working on recipes much recently. I’ve been making little tweaks, but not putting a couple of patterns together to come up with something new. Maybe the […]
Tonight I made some little turkey meatballs that had almost as much matzoh meal in them as turkey, and cooked them in soup. The soup was good, but the meatballs had the most perfect texture, slightly grainy, soft but not too soft, chewey but not too chewey. And I didn’t think they’d be too photogenic, […]
I’ve been trying to keep the pantry pretty bare, except for buying ingredients for the dinners. It’s been working surprisingly well, except for the times I’ve kinda hung onto a little bit of this or that for too long – like the salad dressing I put on my work lunch salad last Friday. The greens […]