Our across-the-street neighbor, Matt, is an unbelievably good guy. He's taken very good care of us this summer, what with mowing the lawn and helping out with fallen branches--I honestly don't know what we would have done without him ( Read more... )

Just uploading a couple of pictures and recipes that I made when I wasn't able to upload the photos...

( Lavender Blueberry Scones )

I made Martha Stewart's New York coffeecake this morning--out of a COOKBOOK!

Paper--what a concept~~

We're having a rainy, coolish day today, and so dinner tonight will be Cassoulet Style Chicken Thighs.

I'm going to heavily modify this recipe--I want to throw some diced carrot in there, and fresh herbs rather than dried, and no frakkin' WATER, ( Read more... )

I learned a little while back that Sunny Anderson does indeed follow the blogs mentioning her and/or her recipes.

I learned it because she actually turned up here, in fact.

If you're out there, Sunny, I wanted to let you know that we made the Firecracker Chicken that you made on Good Morning America the other day, and it is superbMy husband has ( Read more... )

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A couple of things happened in this house tonight that hadn't happened in awhile ( Read more... )

I realized this morning that I haven't posted a recipe for awhile ( Read more... )

Coq au vin with parsnips, turnips and carrots


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My absolute Kitchen Goddess, Nigella Lawson, has a new program on Food Network called "Nigella Express", where the emphasis is on quick, easy meals that serve up snicker snack.

Today, she focused on comfort foods, and there is probably no better comfort food than chicken pot pie.

( And this was what has turned out to be my new favorite chicken pot pie... )

oh my god ( Read more... )