Recipes are formed in a variety of ways: inspiration, diligence, solutions to problems, need, desires, and many others. Recipes don’t have to be complex to be good, they just have to feel, look, taste, and smell good to eat.
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Past Banana Blast
I lived in Houston, TX for a time growing up and for a Mother’s Day brunch our family visited Brennan’s of Houston. I was probably all of 7 or 8 at the time. At any rate I was reminded of all of this not by my mom, but by a friend commenting on how much [...]
Sweet and Sour Chicken & Vegetables
I like Asian cooking, well the taste at any rate, and when a recepie came along for a sweet and sour dish with vegetables I wanted to give it a try. The issue for me is the original recipe was a strictly vegetarian preparation using tofu and salad bar vegetables. Sorry, I’m just not that into tofu and having [...]
Scrambled Eggs
I’ve made scrambled eggs most of my life. When my kids were much younger, one egg in a microwave-safe glass bowl for 1 minute was an instant breakfast. Recently I’ve experimented with cooking them on the stove-top attempting to get a really light, fluffy texture.
Over the past couple of months I’ve added 1/8 tsp of cream of [...]
Popcorn: Reloaded
Like most folks I’ve been seduced by the convenience of microwave popcorn – throw in an bag, hit the “popcorn” button, rinse, repeat. Over the holidays I made some caramel popcorn using the (*gasp*) non-microwave variety and had the oppertuniuty to hone some long forgotten popcorn skills:
2.5 tbsp oil; canola , corn or peanut
1/2 cup un-popped popcorn kernels
1/4 tsp [...]
Buffalo Wing Sauce
Lately when I need a quick bite to eat I zap some frozen boneless buffalo style chicken pieces. I usually get a bag from Schwan’s – they are more tasty than spicy hot. Still, I like to have them with some store purchased blue cheese dressing to at least make my mouth think they are [...]
Chicken Romano
Usually I have a meal planned for Sunday evening, but last night I just had one too many things to do so it was a “Make Your Own Darn Dinner” (MYODD) affair.
When 7 PM rolled around my daughter was put off by having to “roll her own”. When I asked what she wanted she said [...]
Party Prep
Friday night and rather than hanging at my favorite watering hole, I’m at home cooking for the Yankee Swap party tomorrow night. I’m making spiced nuts and caramel corn as my swap gift. The nuts will go in a nice glass jar and the caramel corn in a festive tin.
The spiced nuts go like this:
1 [...]
Yankee Swap Party
It’s almost time for the annual Yankee Swap Party. Every year my friend Sue throws this increadable party the second Saturday in December. Everyone brings a $15 gift, a scratch ticket and something to eat. We all have a blast! There’s usually about 40+ people at the gathering.
This year there’s a tropical party theme. Along [...]