My desire to cook has been extremely inconsistent of late. One day it's ~whine~ donwanna, and then yesterday I made from-scratch-tomato-sauce, meatloaf (of taking 2 hour - ngh), roasted veggies, mushroom gravy, and a gingerbread just to even things out, and because I've been having a hankering for gingerbread, and also because apparently I must ( Read more... )

Had my Dr. Who Night crew over on Sunday. There was a request for low-fat (or maybe calorie?) cooking... just this once ~grin~, and after a brief consultation as to what that could possibly mean, I embarked on the following:
( Recipe for Experimental Garam Masala Chicken )

Nom!


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So, I'm a big tea drinker. Mostly black teas. We usually have a selection of something in the neighborhood of at least 6 perfectly nice black teas (with no flavors). Mostly don't put flavors in my hot tea (Republic of Tea's Vanilla Almond being the exception ( Read more... )

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I made chili last night as I had several friends over, as it's a crowd-pleaser, and doesn't require a whole lot of attention. The recipe was requested, and so here it is:

( Chili Recipe )

So, cuddlebunni3 and blueflamedfire gave me and my sweetie a lovely gift bag of goodies recently, including this yummy cake mix which we just tried the other day, and I _really_ liked it. It was chocolatey, but not too chocolatey, sweet, but not too sweet, had little chocolate chip bits, sliced well, baked according to directions, and just generally did what it was ( Read more... )

( Don't read this if you're easily grossed out )

I was at Skye's this weekend for a cookie making event, and two of my cookie recipes garnered requests:
our Molasses Cookies, and my Mom's Christmas Cookies (aka Butter Cookies).

( Recipes )

These cookies are unreal. I almost don't believe in them:
Baker's Banter: The Other Cookie Baker