Category: from the kitchen

From the Kitchen – The Hungry Cat Tavern Cookbook

I thought I might put all of my husband's and mines recipes together in one document.  We've fantasized for years about having a restaurant of our own so that's where the title comes from.  Please no stealing it and trying to pass it off as your own.  There may be mistakes in it, though I've tried … Continue reading From the Kitchen – The Hungry Cat Tavern Cookbook →

From the kitchen and the bar – grilling lots of meat, my adventures with kimchi and a few new beers

My husband and I wanted to try to grill out something other than steak. So, rather than getting one more steak from work, I got a pork tenderloin, a small piece of beef sirloin and a couple of chicken breasts. We marinated each of these in a different marinade. I did a bit of web … Continue reading From the kitchen and the bar – grilling lots of meat, my adventures with kimchi and a few new beers →

From the kitchen – some tasty entrees and a small rant about a movie

(warning: a few movie spoilers appear at the end for Iron Man 3 and The Winter Soldier. You have been warned) Having no good ideas for a big meal to make for the weekend (and little time to do so with a retail schedule), we decided to get the stuff to make some quick meals.   … Continue reading From the kitchen – some tasty entrees and a small rant about a movie →

From the Bar and Kitchen – Strong drink, duck and a blue cheese tart

It’s always curious to see a “no fly” symbol on your newly purchased alcohol.  The alcohol in question is Stroh 80, a 160 proof (80%) rum from Austria, which is about as not Caribbean as you can get.  Having some Austrian ancestry, and an eternal curiosity about strange liquor, I had to get a bottle.  Happily, … Continue reading From the Bar and Kitchen – Strong drink, duck and a blue cheese tart →

From the kitchen and bar – monkfish, and yes, more beers plus a cider

A week or two ago, my husband asked if I could pick up some fish for dinner.  When asked what kind of fish, he said “white” aka “not salmon”.  So off I went to the seafood department to look for some “white” fish, as opposed to whitefish which I generally get smoked. They had quite … Continue reading From the kitchen and bar – monkfish, and yes, more beers plus a cider →

From the Bar, from the kitchen etc – Naan, beers and pizza

Snow day today, thanks to the current snow storm moving across Pennsylvania.  A fair amount of  snow and it is getting windy. My coming home from work after dark could have been a bit dicey.  So I’m happily typing here on my couch, sipping a bit of tea from Republic of Tea and hang out with my husband … Continue reading From the Bar, from the kitchen etc – Naan, beers and pizza →

From the Kitchen and Bar – goulash, more pork and a couple of wines

These past several weeks have been a blur thanks to me working retail over the holidays.  It was my first experience in doing so and the fact that I work in a meat department made it quite unique.  Here in the US, there are various traditions for what one eats for what holiday.  Ham and … Continue reading From the Kitchen and Bar – goulash, more pork and a couple of wines →

From the Kitchen and From the Bar – chicken paprikash, a French wine and a holiday beer

Chicken paprikash is a meal I grew up with.  Half my ancestry is Hungarian, with those relatives having settled in New Jersey right off the boat.  We would have a big bowl of this dish with a pile of poppy seeded Kaiser rolls from the City Bakery in New Brunswick.  That bakery is long gone … Continue reading From the Kitchen and From the Bar – chicken paprikash, a French wine and a holiday beer →

From the Kitchen and Bar – anniversary dinner and snacks

This weekend we celebrated being married over two decades, 22 years to be precise with a few years of shacking up before that.  Couldn’t do it on the day we got married, but we did a bit later with tasty foods, part of the problems and benefits from working in a retail meat department.   Oh, … Continue reading From the Kitchen and Bar – anniversary dinner and snacks →