So, internets. I decided to lose my entire mind and cook all weekend. Yesterday was butterbeans, oven-smothered porkchops, rice, and cornbread. I, uh, may have given the entire fam a bad case of the -itis as there was about a 2 hour house-wide compulsive nap shortly after an early dinner. It even knocked out the toddler. Oops ( Read more... )

So, in a similar vein as The Fucking Weather -- which I linked some time ago, but felt should be linked again --, there's now What The Fuck Should I Make For Dinner? Funnily enough, on the third click, it pointed me to Roast Pork Loin with Garlic and Rosemary which I've totally made before and make somewhat regularly still just with turkey loin now ( Read more... )

Recently, I fell in love with Tuscan bread lightly toasted and smeared with room temperature goat cheese (it's some Spanish, wine-cured nonsense because I'm just THAT pretentious). Toss it together with a spinach, strawberry and walnut or pecan salad and well, you get what I've been eating for most of this week. And the bread and chese only lasted ( Read more... )

Today's adventures will be trying to make something I actually find tasty. This has been a problem of mine lately in that NOTHING really tastes like anything and I know it's gonna be a long time coming until metabolism's working as it should and? When you're someone that often forgets to eat on a *good* day when food tastes awesome? This is a bad ( Read more... )

( Bacon-wrapped, Gouda-stuffed, Oven-fried Chicken Breasts )

Also known as: My mother bought stuff on sale again. Since I have enough beef stew meat to feed a small army (family pack was on sale), I'm using a third of it to make Beef Burgundy. Because I'm tired of stews right now. Will refreeze the rest to figure stuff out later. It will go over rice, potatoes or pasta, depending on how much I feel like ( Read more... )

So, today will be Marinated Pork Chops with Caramelized Sweet Potatoes, ala this recipe (that's been tweaked, because this is me), and a stab at pear cobbler, as I have pears on the edge of going bad ( Read more... )

Good god, I'd forgotten how much I love grits. Yes, I did have grits for lunch, shut up. I wanted something warm and comforting (as my sinuses and lungs are being ornery) without eating oatmeal. Even the fact that the SECOND I took my eye off the pot of hot milk and water to put a dish in the sink is when it not only started boiling but boiled over ( Read more... )

Ok, so. While dinner is finishing up, I feel the need to share what I made. Well, share how to make it. Until they perfect that send-food-via-FTP process, this is the best I can do.

So, tonight's dinner is Oven Braised Short Ribs and. Man, I don't even know how to title the side-dish, as it's something sparkymonster told me how to make via IM while I was ( Read more... )

So, I think I've decided to make Chicken Pot Pie with a Feta-Parmesan-Herb Biscuit Crust, except with altering things, like I do. Yes, that blogger lists it as a winter comfort food, which it totally is, but I DON'T CARE. I'M MAKING IT IN JUNE. I've made this recipe once before and it was SO. DAMNED. GOOD. Like, so good, I've been contemplating not ( Read more... )