Life has been crazy and is only about to get much more busy. That is my only excuse for not updating my site in a week. Its terrible, I actually have, um, work stuff to do when I have computer time at night. Its terrible, my unread Google Reader queue is taking over my computer [...]
Monthly Archive for May, 2009
Well, the bunnies have officially spit in the face of both my actual fence and the Liquid Fence. I went out to check on my garden yesterday after work and found this.
Its…NAKED. Those little jerks ate nearly all the leaves off of my champion broccoli producing plant. Thankfully not all of my broccoli was attacked. [...]
The weather was beautiful, 70 and sunny this past weekend, plus, we were trying at all costs to not leave the house in order to avoid the college town graduation weekend mayhem. It was the perfect time to pull the grill out from its Winter slumber. And this time, I was determined to learn to use this myself. No longer will our grill be the strict domain of those possessing Y chromosomes. Its just another cooktop, thus, it is my domain! I think Greg was a bit relieved. He felt quite a lot of pressure being the man-who-must-control-the-flames even though he really doesn’t feel comfortable at all cooking.
More jam making today. I went to the local farmer’s market yesterday, and there’s still a glut of beautiful rhubarb. I seriously can’t resist rhubarb when its in season, so I end up buying it, and then deciding what to make with it. I have my eye on a yummy looking rhubarb crumble recipe, but no occasion for which to make such a decadent dessert. So I settled on Strawberry Rhubarb Jam, a favorite of mine.
More specifically, these are the only oatmeal raisin cookies that I actually really like. The only ones I will spend my time making at home. Dare I say, the only ones I’d make instead of chocolate chip cookies??? OK, I think that last statement might have taken the sentiment too far. I don’t know that anything can displace chocolate chip cookies as my all time favorites. But these are an excellent alternative if for some strange reason you’re not in a chocolaty mood.
This meal has been on the docket for quite a while, but I got kind of out of the cooking mood earlier this week. I’m kind of glad it waited until tonight because it turned out to be the perfect night for a warm, comforting meal. I’m not sure if you heard, but Kansas got about 37 inches of rain tonight. OK, I exaggerate, but we got almost 5, and that’s a LOT. This kind of downpour requires creamy, starchy,comforty food.
To be completely honest, this is take #2 of Buffalo Turkey Burgers. The first attempt was not very tasty and I didn’t really think it worthy of publishing. They weren’t acatastrophy, just nothing to write home about. Turns out, the less work I actually do, the better!
I came upon this recipe from “Pithy and Cleaver” in my handy Google Reader and decided immediately I had to try it. I just looked so simple and good! And who can’t use another recipe for chicken?
This weekend at the farmer’s market I happened to stop by a booth that was selling fresh, natural chicken. [...]
The Jam Verdict
Posted in Food on May 10th, 2009
We enjoyed the jam several times last week on the fresh (no-knead) bread. Delicious. And this morning, Greg had his traditional Saturday morning pancakes with strawberry jam. That’s how he always eats them, and its partly what inspired me to make a LOT of jam. We go through a LOT of jam.
I know, its so trite to make muffin’s for your mom on Mother’s Day. But these muffins aren’t really for my mom to eat, I actually wrote the recipe for my husband. No, I am somewhat “dedicating” these muffins to my mom because without her early guidance in the kitchen, I most likely wouldn’t be making muffins today, and I certainly wouldn’t be making muffins that I made up the recipe for.