Its been pretty hot here the last week or so, so there hasn’t been a lot of baking, BUT there has been a lot of grilling action on the new BBQ, and quick dinners from the stash of food in the freezer. One of the standard things I usually have are frozen raw shrimp. Sometimes I’ll [...]
Sometimes when life gets hectic, you need to be able to throw something together quickly for a speedy, satisfying dinner. One of my favourite things to have on hand is the 1 lb. containers of pasteurized crab meat available at Costco. It’s relatively inexpensive, especially compared to the stuff you get from the seafood display at [...]
Marion and her sister over at “She said, she said“ have been writing about nostalgic/comfort food such as tuna casserole and meat loaf. Well, that got me to hankering after meatloaf, so, what’s a gal to do but whip up a little “pain de viande” (everything sounds tres chic in French, doesn’t it?). I leapt in [...]
Me: I’m making dinner. Will you eat spinach if I put it in the main dish?
Him: NO! I hate spinach!
Me: Are you sure? Its fresh from the garden — just picked, and it’ll be cooked (he cant eat uncooked veg)
Him: Doesn’t matter! Spinach is disguisting!
…15 minutes elapse…
Him: (pointing to the main dish) What’s that?
Me: Spinach.
Him: How [...]
Having made a wild yeast starter to try some of the breads in the new Peter Reinhart book Whole Grain Breads, I had a batch of starter just itching to foment some action!
Thumbing through the book, there is a section for some flatbreads and crackers, and I noticed a recipe for Injera, the Ethiopian flatbread that [...]