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Last one of the Christmas/New Year’s season, I think. Good thing, too, because as much fun as we’ve had, as much as we love our friends, we’re partied out and are ready to crawl back into our shells, like those DSL tortoises from the TV commercials (so much more interesting than Chad’s nerdy cell phone […]
Since I retired I’ve been cooking more: Monday, chicken noodle soup Tuesday, pad thai with chicken and shrimp Wednesday, 15-bean soup with ham Thursday, Italian meat sauce with pasta Hungry? Get thee over to Crouton’s Kitchen and read all about it!
Over the past two weeks, I’ve had all the fear and anxiety I can handle. It’s time to seek a little comfort. We normally ride bicycles on Saturday morning with our Trail Trash group. Today Donna stayed home, for the very good reason that there’s much to be done after last week’s California trip. Other […]
Food pr0n! Yep, you guessed it . . . it’s another plug for Crouton’s Kitchen, where you can find this and other great recipes.
I started a new blog dedicated to cooking, and from now on I’m going to post recipes and cooking discussions there. It’s called Crouton’s Kitchen, and I just posted a recipe for smoked pork spareribs — with photos yet! If you’ve been enjoying the cooking entries on this blog, please bookmark the new blog and check […]
Here’s a great light dinner that might even be good for you. Ingredients (Salad) mixed salad greens red/yellow/green salad peppers, sliced red onion, sliced cherry tomatoes, whole green & black olives, pitted mozarella cheese Ingredients (Salmon) 1 lb salmon filet 1 T butter 3-4 T honey chopped dill Ingredients (Avacado Dressing) avacado 1 T sour cream […]
Our friend Darrell celebrated his 59th birthday with us last night. Here we are at the dining room table: So here’s to Darrell, and good friends! I’m feeling especially fond of Frank (2nd from left in the photo). Frank, like Donna and Mary Anne, is Italian-American. After tasting the sauce and polenta I cooked, he pronounced […]
This is the real stuff, a meat sauce recipe from the Veneto region of Italy, handed down through generations of my wife’s family. I’m sure the recipe changed as it adapted to life in the United States, but when Donna and I visited the old folks in Vittorio Veneto back in the 1980s, we thought their sauce tasted just […]