So, last time I did this I wrote down most everything and I'm glad I did, because I totally had to refer to it several times today. I continue to be a Disciple Of Keller when it comes to cooking fowl. I mean, look at this bird:

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I got overly confident this go-round of nursing. I tried to diet at 6 weeks post partum, and my supply promptly started drying up. I got rather concerned, started eating as much as I wanted again and went through 2-3 batches of these lactation cookies. They worked as claimed, and tasted basically like oatmeal cookies. I can eat an entire batch ( Read more... )

I don't do a ton of cooking through the year. Since Tiffany moved in with us, she loves to cook for people, and she cooks many evenings during the week. When the big holidays come around, though, I like to take over the kitchen and have at. This year came out pretty fantastic. Chopping most of the veggies and doing the cranberry sauce the day ( Read more... )

There is a pie competition today with 3 categories of entry, one of which is "Pie you've never tried before". It's not a very strict competition, and I thought hey, it'd be fun to make a pake! What's a pake? It's a pie baked inside a cake, of course. My friend Paul is the pake-master, so I got some tips before embarking on this adventure. I'm going ( Read more... )

I always forget to write down the quiche proportions since Nathan's recipe is for one 9" deep dish and I can never find deep dish pie crusts in the freezer section anymore. So, here's what I did last night ( Read more... )

Oh, Livejournal, how I've neglected you ( Read more... )

Copy and pasted from Smitten Kitchen's Ratatouille's Ratatouille, posting just so I have a record of what worked and what didn't. I should've taken pictures of the vegetables before slicing and of how much I had left over...


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Haven't done a recipe post in a long while. Mostly posting because I was happy with how dinner came out tonight and I want to write it down somewhere I'll remember where to find it later ( Read more... )

This is probably going to be the third squash-soup recipe in my "Recipes" saved favorites, but it came out well, it was easy, and most of the ingredients are ones I have on hand most of the time.

Curried Squash-Chicken Soup1 med acorn squash ( Read more... )

I should find a more generic food icon ( Read more... )