Chicken Wild Rice Soup

Boil:
2 cups chicken broth
½ cup wild rice, washed and drained
Simmer for 1 hour

Saute:
2-3 tablespoons butter
4 medium carrots, sliced

When the carrots are starting to soften, add:
1 medium onion, chopped fine
4 stalks celery, sliced
1 cup mushrooms, sliced (optional, not in the version presented) C ( Read more... )

Piemas is March 14, 3.14, you see. This year it conveniently fell on a weekend, so I invited people over and we had pies. It was a lovely, social, low-key evening.

For pictures I direct you to my twitpic stream, and also this:

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I am making my customary fabulous Christmas Eve dinner at my mom's house. Standing rib roast, chantilly potatoes, yorkshire pudding, maybe a beet salad, because mom and sil and I like it, whatever else strikes my fancy at the market for sides ( Read more... )

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I told luciddrmr I'd post the recipe for my beef and barley stew. As with many of my recipes, it is highly variable based on what I happen to have around.

In a dutch oven, saute in olive oil or cooking oil
1.5 lbs stew meat (I usually cut those big huge chunks they give you in the store in half. Or cut my own from a roast)
1 large onion, coarsely chopped ( Read more... )

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I made up dinner tonight, and it was pretty darn successful, so I am noting it.
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Today, the kids and I went to church and whoever picked the hymns was in a traditional mood. Amazing Grace, Faith of Our Fathers, and Be Thou My Vision. Only it was mildly re-worded. (scowl) I am all happy to sing entirely new words to hymns I know, but mild alteration screws me up and ruffles me. In this hymnal, it is "Be Now My Vision". Instead ( Read more... )

I love my lemon sour cream cake. But sometimes a girl wants variety, so I took the base of that cake and turned it to spice cake. Heavily spiced, as they should be ( Read more... )

Preheat oven to 400.
In a bowl, mix:
4 eggs
1.5 cups heavy cream
until well combined.

Pour in
1 - 1.5 cups grated cheese
Other fridge goodies and orphans (ham, vegetables, chicken)

Add to taste
Salt, pepper, seasoning (I favor thyme or nutmeg)

Pour into a greased 10-inch pie dish and bake for 30 minutes.