I picked up some stir-fry noodles and green onions earlier this week with an eye to trying my hand at peanut noodles. atara made some for dinner a couple of weeks back and they were a big hit. I just wanted to try my own twist on them ( Read more... )

Today on Cooking with PlonqI have been wanting something curried for lunch or dinner for the past week or so, but it didn't fit with any of our meal plans for dinner, and I've been eating mostly leftovers for lunch ( Read more... )

Today on "Cooking With plonqI wanted something that would be fast and easy for lunch today. I started off with the idea of rice and lentils, but by the time I'd finished cutting up an onion, I had changed my mind ( Read more... )

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Rather than do a verbal run-down on how I make my simple fried rice, I decided to slow the process down by taking my camera out to the kitchen with me.


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For lunch today I decided to clear out a couple of items that have been in the freezer since last year.

I reheated the last serving of the vegetarian (almost vegan) chilli I made last year and served it over pasta that I rolled out from some dough I froze last year.

When I say that the chilli is almost vegan, it's because I added an ingredient at ( Read more... )

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Since I seem to be getting back into a semi-regular routine of posting here, I decided to buck up and buy a paid account. I've been happy with the service Dreamwidth is providing, so I don't mind tossing a few $ to support them. You can probably expect to see a few new user icons from me going forward ( Read more... )

I set myself a reminder on my phone when I was at work today and then forgot about it because i was very busy. It was one of those, "OK Google, remind me of X when I get home" styles, so when I got out of the car and wandered back to inspect the garden, my phone gave me a polite, "Hey, you appear to be home now, and you set yourself a reminder" ( Read more... )

There is a restaurant within reasonable walking distance from my office, which had a sign board out front when we first moved out here that proclaimed that they served, "The best hamburger in Winnipeg ( Read more... )