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Monday, December 31, 2007

Heidi's New Year's Resolution is to learn how to use the FoodSaver so she can preserve her cat food. 8:13:31 AM    comment []

Saturday, December 08, 2007

A jar of the olives after about 6 weeks in the brine. I miscounted before – these will be done May 1, not April 1.   6:44:05 AM    comment []

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

What did “BAM!” ever have to do with food anyway?     7:49:14 PM    comment []

Friday, November 23, 2007

The Dark Side Of Thanksgiving   The Good News: No serious cuts or burns. We had yams with tons of ginger, jalapenos, and garlic. Exotic. There was sweet and sour German red cabbage. Roasted Brussels sprouts too. A hazelnut dressing to which I also added chestnuts (and got to use my chestnut cutter!). Then, of course, there was the deep-fried turkey that I spent an hour pumping up with a mixture of tangerine juice, Tabasco, and melted butter. T-day itself was a blur – chopping, peeling, slicing, and dicing. Liz spun the Benriner to make a fennel, frissee (found it!), red onion, and apple salad. Her youngest son shucked the oysters, they were fighters, all of ‘em, and we had oysters Rockefeller for a starter. Dessert was an apple/walnut torte with Calvados whipped cream and a bit of cranberry sorbet on the side. I woke up this morning and saw the mess above. I love cooking, but enough is enough.     4:17:48 AM    comment []

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Saturday, November 17, 2007

Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana   5:57:24 PM    comment []

In the store this morning, looking for a couple extra turkey legs to deep fry for the boys next Thursday, I looked at a ham and thought “why not?’ Or leg of lamb, pork shoulder, why not? If you can deep fry a turkey, and you have that contraption just sitting around all year, whu not fire it up and try some other meats?   10:45:39 AM    comment []