F'eng Cheng Honey Tender Chicken
This is a great cold salad or summer dish. My mom always made it for picnics- we joked that it was 'just exotic enough' so that the little old church ladies would love it but it wouldn't be TOO ethnic for them. Comes from the People's Republic of China cookbook, now out of print -(ISBN: 0-394-40286-3). So these ( Read more... )

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A new experiment for dinner tonight- made Vietnamese summer rolls and clafouti.

Vietnamese summer rolls:

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Friday I made the beginnings of this yummy soup.  I am almost always perfectly happy with nothing but soup for dinner.  This one is no exception, and I found a great recipe here on the Cookography blog which is a modification of a Cook's Illustrated recipe.  I was especially happy because it takes a lot of the active prep time out of this recipe- ( Read more... )

I somehow managed to delete all the pics off the camera when my computer had to be restarted.  Luckily i had some of the pics on a flash drive, but the rest were... just... GONE kaput patooey.  If there's a cheap and non-spyware way to recover those files, please let me know?

thx!!

~k

Today I had 2 shocks:
1) we had ANOTHER snowfall today here in warm NC.  The sky really has fallen, Chicken Little!
2)  YOSHIKI (of XJapan) produced a strange movie i saw today:
Repo: the Genetic Opera.  
It had a strange component of cast members, including Sarah Brightman, Anthony Stewart Head, Paris Hilton, and Joan Jett in a cameo appearance.  I ( Read more... )

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The DH and I did xmas a bit early.  We ripped open our presents and gloated amid the debris, while the cats watched in fascination.  I should have taken pics of the fang marks Kiba left on my present from Matt and on one of his from me.  That cat must sniff out cardboard somehow since she absolutely MUST gnaw on any cardboard box around. 

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