I found this recipe online and printed it out. When the lovely jenniferblaufra asked about it, I went searching for it online and could no longer find it. So I'm posting it here for her and for my safekeeping.

( Fried Tomatillos with Lime-Honey Sour Cream by Chef Jamie Roraback )

That's what they're called here. I found them very tasty, indeed, but I'm not so sure about the "amazing" bit. Certainly worth making if you have banana peppers you don't know what to do with.

( Here's the orignal with my commentary sprinkled here and there. )

I had been looking and looking and looking for one of those jar lifter-outer things used in canning. Never could find one. Searched high and low. So I had to resort to using tongs to lift jars out once they were sterilized and then again once they were done with their water bath. This all should have been caught on camera. It wasn't funny at ( Read more... )

For several weeks now, I've been feeling oh so sorry for myself. None of my tomato plants have produced a tomato worthy of making fried green tomatoes. My delight of the summer, I tell ya. So, yeah, poor, poor, pitiful me. Yesterday, I made the mistake of swinging by the farmers' market. A girl like me with an appetite like mine and a near- ( Read more... )

I made pickled peppers and onions a week or two ago. What kind of peppers, I'm not sure. They were peppers from my garden plot, that's about all I can say. If I were to guess, I'd say they were Anaheim. They were mighty tasty on their own, but adding them and their companion (commercial) vidalia onions to a potato salad? Out of this world.

I am finally getting around to posting for alien_anomaly the recipes/methods for spicy carrots and brined mushrooms. Behind the cut are verbatim posts made to the discussingNT list by someone named Alyss. (I asked her permission to post this; she said fine (noting that they aren't exactly her recipes but tweaks on assorted recipes based on traditional recipes ( Read more... )

One of the giveaways at the Survival Center was a small expired container of something called Bengali Biryani. Bengali Huh? Doesn't matter; it was very tasty. I googled it and looked it up on my favorite recipe site, but nothing looked quite like what they have listed as the ingredients. It looks easy enough to put together myself without an ( Read more... )

I typed this out for a query in a community. Why not save it here, as well.

( Blender Mayo )

I took a few recipes I found and came up with my own. I winged it with the amounts ( Read more... )

I'll edit the post later to add some commentary on the cheesemaking.


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