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 [...]

Weekday Roast Chicken dinner, from inkling to plate in under an hour

So not having dinner planned the other night, I ran across a whole chicken marked way down in price at the supermarket.  I decided there and then that I would make a roast chicken for dinner.  The usual problem with roast chicken? — you want to eat before 9:00 at night, but you want your chicken [...]

Taking pictures of things I eat

So after looking at the photo-diet project on Flickr, my curiousity was piqued.  I’m not so interested in weighing and specifically portioning out everything I eat, but was interested to actually “see” everything I was eating.  Anyhow, here’s three days worth.

Interesting?  or silly?

here’s a video of Kimi looking like I’m crazy to [...]