Wow, the Exodus movie really sucks. Not just from the silly plot but from the cinematography to the costuming, etc. Happily, I only saw a bit of it on HBO for free. It’s of that “everyone is filthy for no reason at all” genre. We’ve tried some new beers, ciders and wines. In amongst this, … Continue reading From the Bar and a little from the kitchen – more beer, wine and cider, plus a redux of food we’ve made before
Category: from the kitchen
From the Bar and Kitchen – grilled chicken, shrimp, beer, and random kibitzing
Hello! Finally getting a chance to catch up on posts about food, alcohol and other things. I do get wrapped up in commenting on other blogs and sadly neglect my own. Current blog commenting is with a Catholic, Joe, which has been interesting, especially when I have asked him if he would obey a Christian … Continue reading From the Bar and Kitchen – grilled chicken, shrimp, beer, and random kibitzing
From the Kitchen – off to warmer climes in my mind, tom kha gai
Whee, it’s snowing again here in PA. 😛 I wanted to try to make a soup, so I got out my copy of Wright’s The Best Soups in the World, and tried to find something I had most of the ingredients for. As luck would have it, I had most of the ingredients for tom … Continue reading From the Kitchen – off to warmer climes in my mind, tom kha gai
From the Kitchen and the Bar – beer, cake, bourbon and rye
This week we tried a few new beers, a shockingly blue cake and my husband got me a bottle of rye. The beers were from Shock Top, a craft type company owned by the giant Anheuser Busch. They were in a sampler pack of various flavored takes on their unfiltered wheat ale. Twisted Pretzel – … Continue reading From the Kitchen and the Bar – beer, cake, bourbon and rye
From the Kitchen and From the Bar – experimenting with roots, a pie and a bottle of mead
The local large grocery store has a small section of unusual fruits and vegetables, at least unusual to me, she who grew up in very white, very Protestant rural Pennsylvania and who hadn’t a chance to talk to someone who had skin any darker than her pale pink until she went to college. I decided … Continue reading From the Kitchen and From the Bar – experimenting with roots, a pie and a bottle of mead
From the Kitchen – my first venture into gluten free baking
I made my first venture into gluten-free baking this weekend. I find the whole gluten-free craze to be largely nonsense, especially when people would ask us in the meat department if a steak was "gluten-free". However, a friend has muscular dystrophy and prefers to avoid gluten. I had been curious on how the flours worked so … Continue reading From the Kitchen – my first venture into gluten free baking
From the Kitchen and From the Bar – Cake and Sake
This weekend we were stuck close to home thanks to my husband being on call. I decided to get a new alcohol to try and finally got around to making the chocolate bundt cake with coconut filling that I mentioned back in November. The alcohol was Tozai Snow Maiden Junmai Nigori Sake. This sake has … Continue reading From the Kitchen and From the Bar – Cake and Sake
From the Kitchen – all praise the tortilla press, and a tortilla that needs no press
(a break from the entertaining, and somewhat tedious religious stuff) In an attempt to find an easier way to make our meat pies, we got a tortilla press. I have to say that this was one of the best $25 we’ve spent in a while. It makes pressing out pie crust for hand pies so … Continue reading From the Kitchen – all praise the tortilla press, and a tortilla that needs no press
From the Kitchen – hey, I actually used something I put in the freezer to use “later”
Thanksgiving was quiet for us. I got a chicken, roasted it per usual and we just sat around eating, drinking, listening to music and talking. I know, crazy a married couple talking for hours 🙂 We were to have a big snowstorm on the preceding Wednesday (4-8 inches which became, oh, enough snow to whiten … Continue reading From the Kitchen – hey, I actually used something I put in the freezer to use “later”
From the Kitchen – how things don’t quite work out like you might hope
This weekend we decided we needed to make something new. My husband suggested that we wrap meat around “something”. We narrowed that down to pork and the something to be a mix of cheeses and various flavorings. So we got a pork loin roast (a little over a kilo), cut it into one long flat … Continue reading From the Kitchen – how things don’t quite work out like you might hope
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