My new Recipes for the Year: 41 (+4)
M's new Recipes for the Year 5 (+0)

My last recipe from my cookbook collection for the year from 660 Curries and justified a trip to the Indian grocery store to pick up black chickpeas. It apparently didn't justify me writing about it in the last time segment where it belonged, alas. Manual systems are prone to ( Read more... )

My new Recipes for the Year: 37 (+4)
M's new Recipes for the Year 5 (+1)

When I was at Aunt Joanne's for Thanksgiving, I raided her recipe collection. Some of the recipes I took pictures of her were in her own handwriting. Others were clipped from magazines. Those recipes made up 3 of the 5 new recipes that were made in the past 3 weeks. On a side ( Read more... )

My new Recipes for the Year: 33 (+2)
M's new Recipes for the Year 3 (+0)

I made two new recipes this time around, one from 660 Curries and one from Moosewood Favorites. I just now realized I'm not even going to get to one new recipe per week this year. It really makes a difference when the recipes are delivered to your mailbox instead of having to ( Read more... )

My new Recipes for the Year: 31 (+2)
M's new Recipes for the Year 3 (+0)

It was a slow month for recipes, but both of the ones I made were pretty great, so we'll take it.

[1] Last Friday I made Sweet-Hot Black Chickpeas from 660 Curries. I made two alterations ( Read more... )

My new Recipes for the Year: 29 (+5)
M's new Recipes for the Year 3 (+0)

This month had a mix of new recipes from old cookbooks and new recipes saved from old issues of Eating Well.

First, dessert. gieves and darlox have a big BBQ every summer. My contribution this year was "Our Favorite Pound Cake" from Moosewood Favorites. I specifically made the blueberry ( Read more... )

My new Recipes for the Year: 24 (+5)
M's new Recipes for the Year 3 (+0)

Last time around, I got a copy of the Pound Dropper recipe booklet, so I broke out the Creamy Tuscan Chicken Bake. It was quick, easy and tasted and pretty good. More importantly, M liked it, so on the list it goes ( Read more... )

My new Recipes for the Year: 19 (+3)
M's new Recipes for the Year 3 (+1)

We went blueberry picking two Sundays ago with gieves and darlox and Kid A and Emily & Chris. We came home with 9 pounds of blueberries. This was planned for and no problem, but unexpectedly my Aunt Joanne brought my a very large tupperware of fresh blueberries from her garden the day ( Read more... )

My new Recipes for the Year: 16 (+2)
M's new Recipes for the Year 2 (+0)

Given how much M and I love tabouli, it's sort of remarkable that it took me this long to make the tabouli salad recipe from Moosewood Favorites. It's quick, it's easy, it's credible tabouli that tasted good enough to me as someone who does not actually have a Lebanese ( Read more... )

Our big news here is that M ate inside a restaurant on Friday, June 2, which brings her streak to an end at 1163 days, or 111 days after mine ended. That's 3 years and 68 days between dine in experiences. Thanks COVID! The restaurant in question was King Cone's Castle in Butler, PA. We ate there when we were visiting my parents and sister's family ( Read more... )

M's Streak of not eating inside a restaurant - 1151 days and counting (+23)
My new Recipes for the Year: 13 (+5)
M's new Recipes for the Year 2 (+0)

Nearly three weeks later, I've got a pile of recipes to talk about. Three are from Moosewood Favorites, one is from the internet, and one is from the Bread Bible. Let's start with Moosewood, which ( Read more... )