With work, I don’t have as much time to cook as I’d like. So, when I have a couple days in row off, I cook a lot. This time, it was quiche, apple dumplings and two types of cookies. The chocolate chip/toffee cookies have been blogged about earlier here. The other cookies are a result … Continue reading From the Kitchen – Quiche, cookies and apple dumplings
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From the Kitchen and from the Bar – Steak and beers
Steak and beer, the classic American experience. Might be the classic Australian one too. One of the benefits of working in the meat department of a very large grocery store is that I can get very nice cuts of meat. No employee discount but I can have a fellow employee weigh me out my chosen … Continue reading From the Kitchen and from the Bar – Steak and beers
From the Kitchen – Pineapple upside down cake, crabby peppers, etc
This post is to catch up on what I’ve been cooking. We did watch a movie this weekend with a meal, but it was the Brain from Planet Arous, a classically bad movie but one of the first, if not the first, that had aliens taking over human bodies. Something that appeals to my Trekkiness … Continue reading From the Kitchen – Pineapple upside down cake, crabby peppers, etc
From the Kitchen, from the Bar – pork shoulder, ales and kibitzing about music, movies, etc
The weather has finally decided to be lovely and not the sauna it was a week and a half ago. So, it became time to cook since I could have the oven on for hours and not feel like I was committing hara-kiri by sweating. Since it was on sale ($1.49/pound) and we love it, … Continue reading From the Kitchen, from the Bar – pork shoulder, ales and kibitzing about music, movies, etc
From the Kitchen and bar plus a movie – Schnitzel with panko is like jaegers with kaiju… trust me on this one
The movie for this week is Sharknado! No, no, I can’t even joke about that. What a purely stupid movie (yes, we watched about 15 minutes of it). Ah, if someone would have told my teen-age self that there will be a channel called the Science Fiction Channel and that I would hate it with a … Continue reading From the Kitchen and bar plus a movie – Schnitzel with panko is like jaegers with kaiju… trust me on this one
From The Kitchen, From the Bar and a movie – Grilled chicken, shandies and Jack the Giant Slayer
This weekend, it being a little cooler than last, we decided to grill. I pulled out a recipe from my latest issue of Saveur Magazine, Gai Yahng or Thai style chicken with sweet chili sauce. It is basically a cilantro and garlic marinade for chicken, which you then grill. I find gas grills to be … Continue reading From The Kitchen, From the Bar and a movie – Grilled chicken, shandies and Jack the Giant Slayer
From the Bar and From the Kitchen – various beers and roast beast
Samuel Smith Strawberry Ale – Samuel Smith, a brewer out of Great Britain, has a line up of fruit beers. This is our last one to try and I’ll have to say all of them are excellent. This one has the intense taste of dried strawberries. There is a lambic tartness and a slight bitter … Continue reading From the Bar and From the Kitchen – various beers and roast beast
From the Kitchen – cheap recipes and all that entails
After that last monstrously long post, I figured something light was in order. So here are a few recipes that I’ve made recently. they are cheap. Like many cheap recipes, they can be rather unhealthy. The first is probably one of the worst, but it's a treat. The other two, it's not hard to see … Continue reading From the Kitchen – cheap recipes and all that entails
From the Kitchen – Pot Stickers and Bagels: nope they have nothing in common that I can think of….
Since I now have a fair amount of free time, I have been back in the kitchen trying out some recipes that I’ve wanted to try but was too nervous about to waste a weekend day on. A while ago, I made bao (steamed buns) from Andrea Nguyen’s Asian Dumplings. The next recipe I had … Continue reading From the Kitchen – Pot Stickers and Bagels: nope they have nothing in common that I can think of….
From the Kitchen – the World’s Best Lasagna
This weekend’s meal and a movie is the World’s Best Lasagnatm and the movie is one we’ve watched before and love, John Carter (A Princess of Mars). If you enjoy pulp, then watch it. It’s a good movie and the reviewers, as usual, are to be ignored. I’ve recommended the movie before here, so we’ll … Continue reading From the Kitchen – the World’s Best Lasagna
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