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
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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 Bar – three more wines and a cocktail of our own
Just having returned from visiting my folks, I have more wines and drinks to review. My folks are very nice folks, ordinary but nicer than most. And I find going to visit them ridiculously stressful.So, on to the new wines. My folks live in very very rural Pennsylvania. We were going to take a growler … Continue reading From the Bar – three more wines and a cocktail of our own
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 Bar – Five new wines
For Thanksgiving, we did a couple of Cornish hens, aka little chickens. They came out nicely, roasted for nearly two hours at 375. Nothing special with them, just stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy and my husband’s favorite cranberry orange sauce (recipes for the last here). This weekend we made my husband’s fabulous seafood chowder. Along … Continue reading From the Bar – Five new 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
From the Kitchen – Quiche, cookies and apple dumplings
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
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
Club Schadenfreude 