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  • Pasta & Rice,  Seafood

    Ditalini’s Sautéed Scallops & Spinach Over Bucatini

    This is one of our favorite one-dish meals: sautéed scallops & spinach over pasta, enhanced w/garlic & bacon.

    By Crouton deMenthe August 17, 2021
  • Salads

    Ditalini’s Grilled Chicken & Romaine Salad

    Ditalini adapted this dinner salad from an Americas Test Kitchen recipe, using ingredients to hand and sizing it for two. It was filling and tasty, and a welcome addition to our repertoire of grilled veggies.

    By Crouton deMenthe August 17, 2021
  • Administrivia

    Securing Crouton’s Kitchen

    A reader comments: “I think for a buck or two you can display the secure wwws.irl heading, making many of us more comfortable.” It took Crouton a minute to figure out what the reader was getting at. When it clicked…

    By Crouton deMenthe July 2, 2021
  • Administrivia,  Cookblogging

    Improving Crouton’s Kitchen

    This morning I, Crouton, finally finished adding a line of code to the recipes on this blog. I don’t know about you, but when I look up online recipes I like to cut & paste the important bits … the…

    By Crouton deMenthe March 4, 2021
  • Breads

    No-Knead Dutch Oven Bread

    ... may I say how much I hate food and recipe bloggers who make you scroll and scroll to get to the information you came for; namely, the ingredients and instructions? Crouton's Kitchen readers, I promise to give you want…

    By Crouton deMenthe February 17, 2021
  • Italian,  Pasta & Rice

    Crouton’s Pasta with Italian Sausage

    Here’s another easy pasta dish anyone can make. It tastes as good as it looks. Notes I’ve tried this with both kalamata olives and canned black olives. The strong flavor of the kalamatas overpower the bell pepper and broccoli, so…

    By Crouton deMenthe February 8, 2021
  • Stews

    Ditalini’s Goulash

    This is the Czech version of goulash, as served at the Tábor Restaurant in Portland, Oregon, modified by Ditalini.  Traditionally it is served with dumplings, which I’ll include in the recipe, but we serve it with pasta, as shown.  The…

    By Crouton deMenthe September 15, 2020
  • Cookblogging,  Photoblogging

    Future Projects Photoblog

    Today, a photoblog. These are all things for future Crouton’s Kitchen posts. Pizza w/bread machine dough Ditalini preparing lumpia & wonton soup Lumpia & wonton soup Truffle deMenthe’s jambalaya Ditalini’s egg sliders Crouton’s Fortress of Smoke™ Fried polenta w/eggs There.…

    By Crouton deMenthe June 27, 2020
  • Equipment,  Smoking,  Technique

    Crouton’s Fortress of Smoke™

    A while back I added an equipment & technique section to this blog. This post is the first entry in that section, and describes my method for setting up and using a Weber Smoky Mountain cooker (aka Crouton’s Fortress of Smoke™). This post…

    By Crouton deMenthe April 22, 2020
  • Breads

    Shelter in Place: Bread Machine Basics

    Like many of you, judging by how hard it is to find flour and yeast these days, we’ve taken the old bread machine out of the closet and put it back in the kitchen where it belongs, mostly as a…

    By Crouton deMenthe April 4, 2020
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