This has become a twice a month or more tradition in our house and people really seem to like it a lot:

Saturday Chicken/Sunday Soup

Saturday ChickenYou'll need a big dutch oven or deep, oven-and-stovetop-safe, flat-bottomed pot, with a tight-fitting lid, for this ( Read more... )

Moroccanish Chicken Things

2 tblsp butter
3 or 4 green onions, green parts only, sliced
2 or 3 cloves minced garlic
1 tblsp grated ginger
1 tsp roasted and ground cumin seeds
1/2 tsp turmeric
2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp salt
2 1/2 lb chicken thighs, trimmed (the cat will enjoy the fatty gristley bits you cut off. Mine ate enough for ( Read more... )

For E.

• 6 tblsps butter
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp fresh orange zest

Steve and I had a lovely Thanksgiving dinner with my family. Among all the other things I have to be thankful about (and they are legion), there is the the fact that my family is pleasant, funny, and relatively drama-free company.
I passed up several tempting invitations in order to work on holiday stuff this weekend. On average, I'm glad I did. I ( Read more... )

Was a lovely drink Tony and I shared Saturday night (they were serving them at the Doctor Who tea party, I believe). Wikipedia gives several variations; the one below looks the closest to what we had. Since several of the recipes call for ginger syrup, I'm going to guess that ginger ale in this recipe is what I'd call ginger beer-the sweet fizzy ( Read more... )