A couple of weeks ago, we went out to visit my parents over the Memorial Day holiday weekend. I was on a bit of a culinary mission: obtain sourdough culture from parental units. I took a jar of home-made strawberry rhubarb jam as a barter offer. It worked, and I came home with a container [...]
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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 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. [...]
Rhubarb sauce is one of my favorite summer treats. I’m always on the lookout for rhubarb, and I was lucky enough to find some beautiful rhubarb at the local Farmer’s Market this weekend. I bought a couple pounds of it. My friend that I was shopping with questioned what I was going to do with it. Many people don’t even know what the heck rhubarb is let alone what to do with it! Of course you can put it with strawberries in jam or pie or something like that. However, I really love it on its own made into sauce. I describe it as the consistency of applesauce, but with rhubarb instead of apples.
I can’t take credit for these recipes. But I can take photos…lots and lots of make-your-mouth-water-photos.
The Great Strawberry Jam Disaster of ‘09
Posted in Cleaning, Food, Kitchen Disasters, canning on May 3rd, 2009
Today started out innocently enough. I had bought a few pounds of strawberries with the idea of making strawberry jam. I’ve tried my hand a few times at canning with mixed success. So I decided to use the VERY FIRST recipe in my Ball “Complete Book of Home Preserving”. Its the first recipe in the chapter called “getting started”. As in, if you can’t get this down, please put down your canning pot and step away from the kitchen. Well, I was feeling pretty good about myself. I’m no beginner, I’ve done this whole canning thing at least 4 times…
I came upon the recipe that inspired this in my latest “Cooking Light” magazine issue. Indeed it may not be quite the “lightest” dinner ever. Chicken – good, herbs – good, goat cheese – eh…But you know what? Goat cheese is certainly better than stuffing it with cheddar orfontina (which I have done and loved), so if you want a stuffed chicken breast, this probably is still on the “light” side.