Today I have baked a falsha strudel that I am having a very very difficult time not just devouring. I messed with the recipe a bit - it called for unsalted butter, which I did not have, so I just left the salt out. It also called for only a cup of blackberries, but for some inexplicable reason, I did not freeze any blackberries in one cup ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving is coming.  I'm tearing around my house, right now, making a list, so we don't have to go grocery shopping tomorrow ( Read more... )

We have 27 quarts of applesauce sitting on our kitchen table, another bushel of apples in the basement to freeze or dry, and more in the living room to freeze for pies ( Read more... )

I've been making applesauce since 11:00AM.  I just burned the side of my left hand on the stove. 

Ways to make cooking more fun than it already is:

Robbie Williams' Rudebox

Bellydancing

Knives and raw vegetables

Add an apron, shake hips to mix.

Oh yes.

*dances around the kitchen, occasionally waving vegetables and knives in the air.*

Made chicken pauperkash for dinner.  Very tasty, very filling.  It's not actually traditional Hungarian chicken pauperkash, more like my paternal grandmother's bargain bin chicken stew.  But, we call it pauperkash so whatever ( Read more... )

Shepherd's Pie, prepare to become my bitch.

(But with beef instead of lamb because my family doesn't eat lamb.  And we have like half a cow in the freezer.  Meat's got to be used for something.)