Since various people asked for the recipe for the soup, here you go. I halved the original recipe and got about two servings out of it, so you might want to double it if you're cooking for more than you ( Read more... )

Two of the foods that allanc dislikes most are cucumbers and tomatoes. Of course, I love them, so he patiently puts up with my love of them as long as I don't serve him any.

When I had this salad at the Dinosaur BBQ a few weeks ago, I couldn't stop talking about it, even though poor Allan kept making faces whenever I insisted that it was sooo tasty. I' ( Read more... )

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I have scanned selections from the Velveeta-themed cookbook that I got at a library booksale on Saturday.

Enjoy. I wouldn't recommend looking at them on your lunch hour.

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I've been making fudge for various department members as a winter holiday gift. Tonight, I tried a vegan fudge recipe to give to one of my colleagues. It's still cooling, but tentative results from sampling the leftovers in the pot indicate tastiness. It also set up firmly; a lot of recipes I read said that getting it to set properly (so that it's ( Read more... )

My department contains three vegetarians, one vegan, one lactose intolerant person, and four omninvores. When it comes time to bring food for meetings or parties, it can be a bit of a challenge. We seem to have decided that the solution to the problem is "bring lots of different kinds of food and let people choose what they like," so there have ( Read more... )

So tonight I made Chicken Makhani (Butter Chicken) and garlic naan. The garlic naan recipe (courtesy kissingcrust) worked perfectly until I tried to broil them, at which point my oven began cooking them extremely slooowly. I think I'll just buy the frozen naan from Super Bazaar from now on. Or acquire a tandoor ( Read more... )