I had no idea pumpkin was so tasty as a vegetable! I grew pumpkins this year (the kind that are meant for cooking with) and I ended up with four good pumpkins; I gave one to my mom and kept three, and I cut up the ripest of these tonight. I made a pumpkin-coconut curry from a (heavily modified) recipe that I found on the Internet, and the rest of ( Read more... )

Homemade sauerkraut:


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I sampled my homemade sauerkraut today, the initial small batch that I put together about a month ago. It tastes ... okay, actually. It's not squishy, slimy or bad-tasting (the signs of sauerkraut spoilage according to the Internet), and it doesn't leave an unpleasant aftertaste. It's rather vinegary and perhaps a little under-salted -- I put a ( Read more... )

Ever since I was a kid, I've disliked the thick, sticky texture of boiled oatmeal. As I sit here narfing my bowl of oatmeal made just the way *I* like it, I got to wondering if there are a lot of people out there, like me, who thought they hated oatmeal and later realized that they only hated it the way the instructions on the box say to make it ( Read more... )

In the process of trying to use up random stuff in the fridge, I have found the tastiest lunch for my work-from-home days. And it's very quick to make ( Read more... )