I have now been on this planet for 50 years. I really wish I had been on some other planet during this time but alas technology has not cooperated. For my birthday, we went to have really good cheap french fries (cooked in beef fat) and expensive Belgian beers. This was an extra treat since … Continue reading From the Bar – a few Belgian ales and a movie
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From the Kitchen and Bar – I have committed a culinary sin….and it was goooood
A week after Snowzilla and we still have about a foot of snow still on the ground. I’ve been tossing out old bread and stale snacks for the local crows, squirrels and little birdies since they have little to eat. Yesterday we had a huge number of crows in the neighborhood. There must have been … Continue reading From the Kitchen and Bar – I have committed a culinary sin….and it was goooood
From the Kitchen and the Bar – new things to try and a jalapeno appetizer
The Thanksgiving long weekend was a nice quiet one for us. We didn’t do the bird but we did eat a lot of appetizers as our feast. Most of them were from the freezer section of the supermarket, but we did make one from scratch. Fresh jalapenos filled with garden vegetable cream cheese, wrapped in … Continue reading From the Kitchen and the Bar – new things to try and a jalapeno appetizer
From the Bar and a little from the kitchen – more beer, wine and cider, plus a redux of food we’ve made before
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
From the Bar – wine and beers from our day trip in York and Lancaster Counties, PA
We had a bit of a staycation last weekend. South-central PA has a bunch of wineries, breweries and good restaurants so we picked a direction, York and east to Lancaster, and headed out. Sorry, no photos. I'm not much of a photographer anyhow. 🙂 Just a note, these places did charge for sampling as most … Continue reading From the Bar – wine and beers from our day trip in York and Lancaster Counties, PA
From the Bar – a handful of new spirits and wines to try plus a new snack
We went on a shopping trip to replenish the bar. These were mostly on sale at the PA liquor stores when we were there last week. Bacardi Black (Carta Negra) Rum – This is a strange one. To our palate, it is wood and smoke, coal smoke. There is the standard sweet molasses rum taste, … Continue reading From the Bar – a handful of new spirits and wines to try plus a new snack
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
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