Wow, did we eat well this weekend. We wanted to have a nice meal at home without a lot of clean up, so we picked up a couple of roasted chickens from the grocery store on Saturday night. We selected one plain chicken, and one with Thai green chili seasoning. The seasoning was not too dramatic, just made for a very tasty chicken. With the Thai ( Read more... )

This morning I had a wild hair and created a Portobello mushroom-based pasta sauce, a vegetarian variation on a carbonara. (No bacon, though, so can it be called a carbonara? Questions, questions). Still, it was super-rich and flavorful. I will tweak the recipe a bit before I make it for anyone else: possibly add more herbs (thyme), and deglaze ( Read more... )

... of my tasty breakfast: grilled Swiss cheese on rye bread with sauteed garlic, shallots, baby portobello mushrooms and thyme.

Washed down with some Ruby Red grapefruit juice. MmmmmMMM!

It seems that yesterday's pasta gave my sister epic gas. I made the vegetarian fart: yay me! Strangely enough, I am fine ( Read more... )

Well. The weekend is over, which is almost the best thing I can say about it. All my lack of sleep caught up to me and I slept like a zombie through most of Saturday. No tree was erected this weekend, and the kids about drove us nuts. Then, we had Nora over on Sunday and she only made it worse. Oh, well ( Read more... )

The pot roast came out. It is pot roast. It is not the most sublime, melt-in-your mouth pot roast I have ever had, but it was perfectly edible. I was finally able to stop being critical of it when I asked myself what I'd think of it if it wasn't me that made it, and suddenly I was very happy. Ha! Silly Laurel.

So. Here's Laurel, trying to make pot roast for the first time. I'm using a recipe from House & Garden, circa 1963. If there's anyone I trust for a beginner-type recipe, it's a 1960's housewife ( Read more... )

Mmmmm. White bean soup with a sprinkle of shredded parmesan, some toasted garlic cheddar bread, and an Anchor Steam beer. No, I'm not worried about drinking this early in the day, because this is actually my evening. I'll be going to bed soon, full and very happy.

Jimmy beat me to the crockpot and made another pot of beans, and this time he added smoked ham hocks. I put on my Big Girl Pants (TM) to try it, because I admit I'm a little wigged out by food with recognizable animal parts in it. (Even though they weren't recognizable anymore by the time it was served). I can't deny it that they were super- ( Read more... )

Kitchen Experiment = quite tasty! Though Vince was right, it's more like tortilla soup than pozole. I do like the hominy in it, though I look forward to trying it again with dark meat chicken, (hey, I used what I had, but this breast meat gets dry in the crockpot), and being able to add tortilla strips and cheese.