It's raining, it's cold, and I want comfort food. Vegetarian friends, avert your eyes.

I start with quietselkie's crock pot chicken recipe. I call it 24-hour chicken, because that's how long it takes to cook the chicken and make stock from the bones. It's relatively easy: a hour before bed, just dump the chicken (sans gizzard and heart and stuff), herbs ( ( Read more... )

I'm writing it down here so I remember the basic proportions and don't forget any ingredients. This yields a dozen regular sized burritos or eight extra large burritos; this depends on the size of tortillas you get. The whole thing from beginning to end took me a little less than two hours this morning; I had to do the mushrooms in two batches ( Read more... )

I was asked what the secret to my family's beloved stuffing recipe is, so I decided to post it here, both for ease of access in the future and for sharing. A few of the instructions are a sort of use-your-best-judgement sort of thing, and I have decades of experience making and watching it being made, but I've done my best to describe those ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure I haven't posted this recipe here yet. Five ingredients, one baking dish, and YUM ( Read more... )

I baked a layer cake last night for tonight's OCWC party, but I have enough beer left over to bake another, so I thought I'd try cupcakes for the office. At nine dollars a bottle, I'm not pouring the rest of that stuff down the drain! If I baked the batter in two nine-inch tins for thirty minutes at 350F last night, how long would I bake the same ( Read more... )

quietselkie's Crock Pot Chicken:

Instead of baking chicken breasts like it says in the other blogs' recipes I link to below, I put a chicken in the crock pot like quietselkie blogged about years ago: a whole chicken sans neck and organs*, an onion peeled and cut up, some rosemary and thyme, and some celery, put in the crock pot. Sprinkle liberally with seasonings: Mrs ( Read more... )

I call this my recipe because its final form is due to me tweaking and experimenting, but it's actually 92.5% from this recipe, with advice from here thrown in. And a food blog post I found via Tumblr. And this vid. I stand on the shoulders of giants ( Read more... )

I like Monday holidays, so that's item one on today's list ( Read more... )

This is a hybrid of Pattie's and Kevin Mills's recipes. It's best to make this the day before you serve or eat it, as it's rather bland the day you make it. Preparation and cooking take one to two hours ( Read more... )

How I did it the first time:

15 oz low fat ricotta cheese
20 jumbo pasta shells
1 cup shredded parmesan cheese, divided
2 eggs, beaten
1 lb frozen spinach, defrosted and rinsed and squeezed dry-ish
15 medium basil leaves
1 jar plain spaghetti sauce
20 white button mushrooms, sauteed ... or just a large-ish can if you want to cheat save time ( Read more... )