I made Pioneer Woman's Cauliflower Soup recipe once before, because it sounded sooooo good. As it turned out, I was slightly disappointed because it wasn't as creamy as I was anticipating, and the cauliflower flavor wasn't as pronounced as I wanted it to be. But, the idea of it has stayed with me, and tonight I decided to try it again, with some ( Read more... )

Seeing as I seem to have contracted the same creeping yuck which is infecting half of my friends' list, I would have been happy with a much simpler dinner: tea and toast, perhaps, or the last of the fruit salad I made to go with the leftover chicken casserole at lunch. But the kids are here, and so I breaded some chicken, made instant mash and ( Read more... )

Kitchen Experiment = quite tasty! Though Vince was right, it's more like tortilla soup than pozole. I do like the hominy in it, though I look forward to trying it again with dark meat chicken, (hey, I used what I had, but this breast meat gets dry in the crockpot), and being able to add tortilla strips and cheese.

Another Kitchen Experiment is underway. I'm making a pozole-inspired soup out of chicken breast, onion, garlic, oregano, a can of enchilada sauce, low-sodium chicken broth, and a couple of cans of stewed tomatoes. This is all in the crockpot, stewing away. I'm going to add the hominy and other veggies later in the cooking process so they don't ( Read more... )

I am currently eating non-instant oatmeal with canned peaches and a few slivers of candied ginger. I am not a big fan of peaches in oatmeal, but the kids like it and I was making it for them. The ginger was an attempt to make it more palatable for ME, but maybe it also needed a touch of butter and a sprinkling of brown sugar? Or perhaps it is ( Read more... )

Last night I made soup from scratch. I had Italian Wedding soup vaguely in mind, but I didn't have any fresh greens. I ended up using fresh garlic, onion, celery, and carrot as the base of the soup, with two bay leaves, some of the frozen stock that Java and I made from the carcass of the Thanksgiving turkey, some water, a can of Northern white ( Read more... )

I made oatmeal cookies with chopped up prunes in place of raisins.

Nobody in this house should be irregular for quite some time.

I just made, and then ate, spaghetti carbonara for the first time. Now I know what people are talking about when they say it's gotta be one of the worst things ever for you.

But damn, that's some tasty shit, yo.

Turkey Day went swimmingly. It actually went far better than I might have expected. There were precisely the number of people who would comfortably fit in my house. The food was, quite predictably with Miss Java at the helm, amazing. We produced the projected offerings, plus some Maple Spiced Nuts and some devilled eggs. Nobody went hungry, ( Read more... )

I got further clarification on the whole pie thing. Jimmy admitted that he *told* this particular co-worker that I was going to be a pie-making machine this year, and that amongst other things that he knew of, I was planning to make a mince pie. This co-worker, let's call him "Jaime," (his real name), had tried the sweet potato pie that Jimmy ( Read more... )