Breakfast at Hubby’s
When it comes to doing chores in our household, we have an almost clean-cut separation between my husband’s duties and mine. While mail sorting and taking the trash out is a gray area even now, after...
View ArticleThat French Eggplant Thing…
Everyone has seen the movie Ratatouille a few years back and applauded the gorgeous layered vegetable dish the little rodent protagonist concocted to sweep a picky food critic off his feet. I am sure...
View ArticleSpelt Blueberry Scones With Coconut
This recipe has been submitted to YeastSpotting on 9/6/2012. I never made scones before. I tasted scones, I saw many pictures of them, but it never occurred to me that I can make my own. Don’t know...
View ArticleEasy Win — Tandoori Chicken
I don’t like cooking in a hurry. Especially if I have to concentrate on making something new. This is why dishes like this one are perfect: you prepare them in advance, stick them in the fridge, until...
View ArticleMaking Focaccia — A Sure Fire Crowdpleaser
This post have been submitted to YeastSpotting As you already know, about a month ago, I have entered a bread-making phase of my life. I now own more than enough books on bread making than I care to...
View ArticleAnd on that farm he had some … cheese!
Growing up in Ukraine, we were consuming vast quantities of farmer cheese. It was a staple, the kind of thing that you almost certainly would find in anyone’s fridge. It was cheap, it was filling, and...
View ArticleLeftovers Glorified — Curried Chicken Pie
Every time I make a batch of curative chicken stock, I end up with a pile of practically inedible chicken meat. The main objective of stock making is the beautiful broth, so everything that goes into...
View ArticleFail-proofing your New Year’s Resolutions
If you are one of the 38% Americans who decide to lose weight after New Year, you are probably smack in the middle of the buyer’s remorse period: the enthusiasm and hot-headedness of the first week of...
View ArticleSome Things Will Never Change…
Here it is — the mother of all homemade dishes. When mom cooked it, we were rushing back home from school, because we could smell it from the distance. It’s an epitome of comfort food and, if you are...
View ArticleHow to Keep Your Dinner And a Perfectly Good Recipe From Flopping
Remember that feeling when you come from the market and realize you just overbought something? And we aren’t talking onions or potatoes. These things will keep forever if you store them right. I am...
View ArticleHats off to Julia. Again. Choucroute Royale
Just wanted to put in a quick post this time. Every time I cook something from Julia Child’s collection of recipes, I am amazed. I read through the ingredient list, glance over the instructions, and I...
View ArticleQuick And … Fancy? You got it!
One of the both weird and heartwarming customs of my native land was (and I hope still is), showing up at the door of your best friends on a whim. Sure, everyone is entitled to their privacy and down...
View ArticleHappy Comebacks. Cooking in a clay pot.
To celebrate the last day of the National Soup Month, I made this quick and easy Spanish Sausage & Lentil soup. I’ve made it before several times. The major difference this time — I tried it in a...
View ArticleEffortless: Beef Short Ribs In A Clay Pot
Today is going to be just a quick post. No nostalgic ramblings, no gastronomical musings, no pseudo-scientific reports. This dish is effortless. I did no research, no recipe comparison, no option...
View ArticleSpeedy Gourmet: Chicken Liver Pate
I like liver, and there is nothing you can do about it. When I cut up a whole chicken, I always save the chicken belly fat and liver for later. Then I buy another small box of livers and make this...
View ArticleLamb Tagine With Green Olives & Pickled Lemons
As you may already know from my previous post, I had a bit of a lamb surplus this week. Since we are counting carbs, making our family’s favorite – plov — is out of question, so I had to come up with...
View ArticleEasy, But Not Simple: Making Welsh Lamb Soup
Are you sick of lamb yet? Well, I certainly am not, even though last week was kind of over-lambed for us. Yet I keep coming back for more. Today I found a neat little recipe for Cawl — a traditional...
View ArticleSourdough Field Day — Pancakes For a Crowd
Quick post today, just a report, really. My trusted wild sourdough batch worked hard this week. We were invited to a Shrove Tuesday at our church and wanted to bring something other than the usual...
View ArticleSunday Mornings Made Easy — Lazy Dumplings
Sunday mornings were fun when I was a kid. My sister and I woke up at 9:30 am, unceremoniously crawled into our parents’ bed, waking them up, and got ourselves ready for the weekly TV program called...
View ArticleHow To Be Lazy About Cooking And Still Make Dinner
I remember when those long titles were popular They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? or How to Win Friends and Influence People or How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying… You get the point, don’t...
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