Category: from the kitchen

What the Boss Likes – kitties, beer and pie (and therapy too)

During this quarantine stuff, my husband and the cats and I are doing well. Us being both introverts, anxiety-prone, and somewhat misanthropic, we are pretty happy with this. I had a beer kit left to make so that got done. It is the Koa Coconut porter from Northern Brewer, where we get a lot of … Continue reading What the Boss Likes – kitties, beer and pie (and therapy too) →

From the Kitchen and Bar – corned beef, veggies and wine (and a quickie bit of art)

Time for a food and drink post.  (if you are new, be aware that if you follow me, you'll get more than food and drink.  You'll also get my unvarnished thoughts about politics and religion). This week we corned a beef. My spouse and I were craving a Rueben sandwich and since we hadn’t done … Continue reading From the Kitchen and Bar – corned beef, veggies and wine (and a quickie bit of art) →

From the Kitchen: Mole, and a picture of a feline pieta

Hello my followers, Thanks for following.  This is a quick post of our tasty meal from last weekend and me with one of our new boys. We made chicken mole last weeked.  Very tasty and yep, it's from a Martha Stewart recipe, but we like it. I have learned to make corn tortillas (with a … Continue reading From the Kitchen: Mole, and a picture of a feline pieta →

From the kitchen and the bar: duck and wine

Sorry for the long hiatus. I am dealing with a job I don’t like, and working on my art, which I do like. I’m now an officially paid artist! It’s very weird feeling for someone who hated art teachers in elementary, high school and college because the ones I had didn’t teach art, they just … Continue reading From the kitchen and the bar: duck and wine →

From the kitchen and the bar – experiments in game meats and some new wines

A month or two ago, D’Artagnan (the company that sells fancy meats here in the US) had a really good flash sale and I got a selection of game meats: a duck, venison shanks and a wild boar roast.   We had the wild boar first (actually a hybrid of European wild boar and feral pig … Continue reading From the kitchen and the bar – experiments in game meats and some new wines →

From the Kitchen – cake and some random musings

Back to some fun stuff.   I found a recipe for German buttercream frosting on Serious Eats, one of my favorite food sites.  This stuff is very good, not too sweet, and full of tasty tasty fat!  I recently made a spice buy at Penzey's, my favorite socially concious spice merchant, and used my new vanilla … Continue reading From the Kitchen – cake and some random musings →

From the Bar: a couple of new things to drink, vindaloo, and a movie

This weekend we made a chicken vindaloo.    This was from the Saveur magazine recipe and it just wasn’t quite what I had grown used to in most indian restaurants.  What the recipe produced was a chicken and potato curry stew but not much of the vinegar tang that I like in vindaloo.  So I ended … Continue reading From the Bar: a couple of new things to drink, vindaloo, and a movie →

From the Kitchen – finally that bread that I’ve been trying for a decade + to make and a dip

Well, I finally did it! (happy porcupine dance) I made a loaf of bread that has all of the holes in it I wanted. It only took more than a decade since I’ve first started trying baking bread. I started baking bread since I do love that smell through the house. I started baking the … Continue reading From the Kitchen – finally that bread that I’ve been trying for a decade + to make and a dip →

What the Boss Likes – Longwood Gardens (and a quick recipe)

Across the first weekend in September, we went to Longwood Gardens, one of the estates that used to be owned by the DuPont family (the chemical people). This is one of the more famous gardens in the US and is quite beautiful. They just spent $90 million to refurbish the main fountain gardens and were … Continue reading What the Boss Likes – Longwood Gardens (and a quick recipe) →