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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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
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 Bar and From the Back Room – Ginger Beer and Kvasir
Recently, I indulged myself in a quick bit of fermenting. One of my favorite magazines, Imbibe, had a recipe for homemade ginger beer. Currently, that recipe isn’t up on their website (they have one that is a bit of a cheat since it uses a CO2 cartridge). I’ll reproduce it here with my changes though … Continue reading From the Bar and From the Back Room – Ginger Beer and Kvasir
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
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