The recipes tag is one of my most frequently used tags over the life of this journal, but outside of some recipes for my 2016 Supper Club I've only used it twice since the start of 2015. This, however, reflects a failure to document new recipes on my part, and not a failure to try new recipes. It is a rare week indeed that goes by without at least ( Read more... )

I made my first loaf of bread for 2017. My mother has made Casserole Batter Rye Bread for years, and I've made it successfully before, so it seemed like a reasonable place to start.

The dough rose, and the bread came out great. I posted a photo over on FB, and my dad's cousin asked for the recipe. Here it is.

Casserole Batter Rye Bread1 cup milk ( Read more... )

My family came to my house for Thanksgiving. While I could have made a turkey, I find it to be generally boring. Fortunately, the holiday issue of Eating Well had a fantastic looking lamb recipe. I don't remember if I suggested it or if tigerlily-blue did, but we made it together, and it was fantastic. It was quite probably the best single thing I've ever ( Read more... )

A recent Facebook post: cynic51 made hommade spinach-garlic hummus, which is quite possibly the tastiest thing to come out of my food processor to date.Which garnered a request for the recipe from DD. Well, I'm not really sure that calling this a recipe is quite accurate since I made it up as I went along, but here goes ( Read more... )

xhollydayx hosted book club last night. Recipes made, cause katspaw156 requested some of them:

Chorizo Puffs. Used a lovely hard cheese called Idiazakel (approximately, the cheese shop guy's handwriting is on par with mine, which is to say, terrible).

French Onion Soup. We used Gruyere instead of swiss cheese, and vegetable broth.

I also made darlox's raspberry apple ( Read more... )