1 bell pepper: $0.40
1 onion: $0.23
1 jalapeño: $0.09
A few cloves of garlic: $0.15?
1 lb black beans: $1.29

Now that's a freaking "value meal".

I am no longer allowed to take Jodi to Olive Garden ever.

Flour: under $1
Eggs: under $1
Water and salt: nearly free
The look in her eyes: priceless.

I used some gift money to get a set of KitchenAid stand-mixer accessories: a pasta roller, a fettuccine cutter, and a spaghetti cutter. The water is boiling now ( Read more... )

Yesterday I made beer-cheese soup and a spinach torte. Since they were both delicious, I'm sharing my recipes.

The beer-cheese soup is based on Wisconsin Native's Beer Cheese Soup, but I changed it a bit:

1 cup diced carrots (two carrots ( Read more... )

Currently sweating:
1 Tbsp. butter
1 Vidalia-grown onion, chopped
1/2 lb. frozen bell peppers (mostly yellow and red, I think)
Several enthusiastic dashes of sweet curry powder from Penzey's

On deck:
1 cup yellow lentils
3 cups water

I wish I had:
Golden raisins
$2.49 bottle of chardonnay from Trader Joe's (it's nearby, but I don't want to go out while this ( Read more... )

Nutmeg Bread
850g bread flour ( Read more... )

Great news kept me up late last night; this morning I'm clay tempered with coffee, and a bit on the runny side at that.  I'm amazed at my body's ability to function on three hours of often-interrupted sleep.  Tonight I'm planning to make 40 Cloves and a Chicken with Perfect Fingerling Potatoes and Vlad's Very Garlicky Greens, so I hope I'm still up ( Read more... )

turtlebat23 has learned how to use my del.icio.us account to bookmark recipes on foodtv.com. She seems to be going through Alton Brown's entire archive to find stuff for me to cook.

Well, at least I won't have to think of something to cook for a while. :)

Since waking up at 6:30, I've already:

• Emptied the dishwasher
• Baked press-the-seam-with-a-spoon biscuits (I don't; I give it a little chop-socky tap with the blade of my hand)
• Cooked scrambled eggs
• Fried fake sausage (Gimme Lean! brand)
• Assembled sausage-egg-and-cheese biscuits and put them back in the oven to get to know each other

Since Heathrita asked, here's the dirt on Penzey's:

There are two store in Jacksonville; we went to the one further east.  Its hours are ludicrously short (they're never open past 5:30), but we had over an hour to browse, and used almost all of it.

The store is difficult to find; it's in a strip mall.  But it's worth the hassle.  It's not the ( Read more... )