Posted in Food, Kitchen Disasters on Apr 29th, 2009
I read a comment on another blog’s comment thread that prompted me to think about blogging my mistakes as well as my successes. This could mean a less-than-tasty pasta dish, an undercooked roasted chicken (which I am an expert at making, by the way) or any number of ways to mess up perfectly well-meaning baked goods. But, I realized it can also mean those disasters which set of fire alarms, ruin cookware, and cause you to have to replace the vent filter over your cook-top.
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Posted in Bunnies, Gardening on Apr 28th, 2009
The day has come. Some plants are finally IN THE GROUND. Such excitement around the homestead. Now here, I must be completely honest. The seedling project has not worked out well. It makes me so sad that my time and energy has gone down in flames, but I’m not gonna sugar-coat it. The seedlings did not fare well when taken out of their cushy garage dwelling.
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Posted in Cooking, Dinner, Food on Apr 25th, 2009
As I mentioned in my previous post, my husband just got his wisdom teeth out. He’s doing fine, sipping down Instant Breakfasts like a champ, however, he’s still off solid foods for at least one more day. So he told me to go ahead and make a meal that I love that he doesn’t. I immediately decided on my Roasted Broccoli and Cauliflower Pasta. I made this one up about a year ago after the raging success of the Summer Squash Spaghetti. However, the reviews of my new recipe brought me back down to earth and reminded me that I couldn’t just pass any old veggie/pasta dish by my husband and expect him to love it. I did NOT have carte blanche with noodles and vegetables.
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Posted in Food on Apr 24th, 2009
My husband got his wisdom teeth extracted today, so I’ve been preparing soft and slurpable foods for him. And of course now I want nothing more than to eat all of his soft foods. Jello, pudding, ice cream…even those instant-breakfast shakes. Its nothing but processed sugar but now that I’m surrounded by it, it all looks so good!
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Posted in Bunnies, Gardening on Apr 24th, 2009
OK, so clearly the marigolds are a laughable solution to our scourge of bunnies. So we’re on to plan B (and C, and D). I purchased a boat-load of Liquid Fence and I hope to give an honest consumer review after I use it. However, I’ve been told that bunnies are persistant little buggers, so in addition to the liquid fence, we’ve put up a liter fence. A cage fence.
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Posted in Cooking, Dinner, Food on Apr 21st, 2009
I know its not quite summer yet, but I feel like I need to start getting warmed up for the months of non-stop zucchini production by getting reacquainted with making my old summer standby- Summer Squash Spaghetti. I made this up while I was living in Tucson out of laziness and the desire to add more vegetables to my diet.
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Posted in Cooking, Dinner, Food, Slow Cooker on Apr 19th, 2009
I started the pork last night, letting it sit coated in the dry spice rub overnight. I know its not exactly in the tradition of K.C. bbq (which is more sauce-based), but I really like the flavor of meats cooked with dry rub. I found a recipe for a spice rub mix, originally published in Cook’s Illustrated. I of course made my own alterations to it. Here’s what I ended up with.
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Posted in Gardening on Apr 19th, 2009
I was feeling pretty darned good about myself yesterday. The garden beds are nearly ready for planting, and our beautiful bunny repellent border was planted. Marigolds…everyone told me marigolds work wonders against bunnies.
So you may imagine my suprise and horror when I peered out my bedroom window first thing this morning to find not one, not two, but THREE bunnies hanging out at the marigold border as if it was the hot new night club in town. And I believe that one was munching on the marigold leaves.
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Posted in Gardening on Apr 18th, 2009
One piece of advice for my vegetable garden that I seem to get over and over is to plant marigolds to keep the bunnies away. And boy do we need bunny repellent. I see several a day and I’m sure they’re just counting down the hours until I put those tender and inviting seedlings into the ground. And oh my, how heart broken I will be if the months of love and devotion I have given my seedlings go down in the mouth of a bunny.
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Posted in Cooking, Dinner, Food on Apr 17th, 2009
More Griddlin’ going on in the kitchen of Dr. Domestic. I was sitting in a scientific seminar today, at 4:30pm on a Friday, and my mind drifted off to what I was going to make for dinner. Don’t judge me, is your mind really on the ball that close to quittin’ time on Friday afternoon? My brain (guided by my growling tummy) kept coming back to paninis. So easy and so good, and the husband is always up for it. I settled on Italian Paninis. The options for fillings are endless, so I just picked my favorites
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