This week I did an Experiment In Cooking. I normally buy Laura's Lean Beef hamburger (or pre-formed patties) but it's pretty expensive stuff, though it's organic, 8% fat beef. Sometimes I've bought ground turkey, which is pretty cheap and often on sale, and only 7% fat, but doesn't taste that great.

This week, I put the two together.

I blended a 16 ( Read more... )

I was home feeling under the weather yesterday but ended up making something pretty tasty. This is my low-fat, reduced sodium salmon chowder recipe ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went to the grocery store with booniverse and came home ready to make meatloaf. There was a small problem: I discovered I didn't have any seasoned, dried bread crumbs in the cupboard. I had an inspiration, though. Instead I used the leftover couscous from Friday night. I had cooked it in a no-salt instant beef stock, and it had come out a little ( Read more... )

One of my experimental recipes, this came out surprisingly tasty ( Read more... )

I think the benefits of even minimal regular exercise are kicking in. I feel pretty good, more than just "yay, that stupid headcold has passed." Earlier today I went shopping for household odds & ends including those sliders you can put under tables to make them easier to move and a new laundry hamper, since mine has broken ( Read more... )

I got this recipe from my friend Anne S. from college. I'm posting it here before I lose it again! What I do is usually just make this as a loaf of pumpkin bread and it works out just fine ( Read more... )

I was invited to dinner today so I offered to make a dessert. Since it's summer, I opted to make something that didn't require me baking... a trifle. For those not in the know a trifle is a traditional English dessert. It's basically a giant parfait in a glass bowl. Think of a ginormous tiramisu and make it with fruit instead of coffee and ( Read more... )

I should probably explain that my sleep cycle last week was totally off because of 10 days of vacation. So, switching back to a regular workday was tough and I was just not good about making myself get to bed. Consquently, I got about 4 hours of sleep three days in a row. Friday night I got home from work in a pretty loopy state, and I made chicken ( Read more... )

This is a quick writeup of my chili recipe from this weekend. I experiment a lot and unfortunately, sometimes I forget my recipes as I move on to new experiments. I've been doing the chicken black bean & corn chili so much I kind of forgot my basic recipe, but now I think I have a replacement. Note that the recipe under the cut is written out in my ( Read more... )

I decided to do some experimental cooking this weekend. My preferred steak is the boneless ribeye and I saw some of those at the store yesterday from Laura's Lean Beef. LLB raises their cattle in a semi-organic manner and sells extremely low-fat cuts of beef. Their "hamburger" has the fat content of ground sirloin, for instance. Now this does cut ( Read more... )