More Fast Food

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 [...]

Fast food

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 [...]

“Pain de viande” Meat loaf in any language is still just as yummy!

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 [...]

Heard this evening in the kitchen…

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 [...]

Let the fermentation fest continue with Injera!

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 [...]