After a couple of late night cooking extravaganzas, I’ve finally managed to work my way through all the remaining plums from my parents’ plum tree. I made three variations of regular stewed plums, and I’m quite pleased with the way they’ve all turned out. They’re now all sealed up in containers and have been banished to the depths of the freezer. I ( Read more... )

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We got a gift bottle of Macadamia Nut Honey Wine from Hawaii a while back. It's been sitting in my wine cabinet a while because I really don't know what to drink with it. The bottle says to serve with your favorite dessert, but I'd like to find something special which complements this mead, and possibly one that features macadamia nuts ( Read more... )

Today, I decided to do a braised short rib recipe, based (loosely) on Daniel Boulud's recipe. I found some short ribs for cheap, and I figured, why not?


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I don't like grapes. They just feel wrong in my mouth and don't taste particularly good. I absolute cannot stand wine; it's horrid. Only thing I know about wine is that the worse it tastes, the better the vintage. Between you, me, and whoever else may be reading this...I think it can be safely assumed that raisins fell out of some unknown circle of ( Read more... )

I got creative in the kitchen Saturday night and came up with a meal which both the husband and the older daughter say must be made again.

Basically, I took pork loin chops and rubbed them with the Indian spice mixture, garam masala, then cooked them with onions, apples, juniper berries and Marsala wine.

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I came up with the recipe the other day. It's based on the Oven Baked Shrimp Risotto recipe on the Knorr website, but I changed a lot in regards to ingredients, prep and presentation. No pictures (sorry, I tried, but they were really blurry and murky) but the recipe is below (under cut)

Shrimp and Spring Vegetable Orzo (serves 6-8)

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