Kettle-chip purists (or those who disdain Pringles) may not like this recipe for clear potato chips but it certainly makes for a distinctive-looking appetizer, no ( Read more... )

Well, sorta. Yesterday I picked up an ultracheap cob of corn intending to have it with supper, only to find that I was out of butter.

Today I remembered the Nero Wolfe mystery "Murder is Corny", with Wolfe advocating roasting instead of boiling the corn on the cob. Well, the corn was cheap, so why not experiment... so I Googled for the recipe. ( Read more... )

For the first time in years I'm going to have a quiet Thanksgiving at home. The folks are away, basking on Myrtle Beach; my brother's off to Europe for an unavoidable meeting; my sister-in-law and my nieces are with her family; even my friends are either away or committed to their own family events... as is entirely natural. To my surprise I don' ( Read more... )

This is starting to become a weekly habit ( Read more... )

I got a little adventurous tonight in the culinary department. Shopping on the weekend at my local grocery store showed that they had a new butcher on staff, and the roasts out were of appalling quality and not even wrapped correctly. I was looking to do something a little different this weekend in any case, and upon prowling the meat section I ( Read more... )