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A Southern Dinner

Some of you out there who are familiar with how I feel about meat may be suprised, no shocked, to learn that I made rib eye steaks tonight. And ate one of them. For you, please see my…uh…testimony…at the end of this blog. My plans for dinner tonight didn’t start out with the idea thatContinue reading “A Southern Dinner”

St.Patty’s Salmon Patty

When it comes to canned fish, I’m picky. There’s only one brand of canned tuna that I like (Bumble Bee). I recently ate a higher-quality sardine and it was acceptable. Recently I discovered this canned salmon at Costco that is actually quite good. I was really suprised at how good it is and therefore wantedContinue reading “St.Patty’s Salmon Patty”

Pizza Pizza

For a while now I’ve been on a quest for the perfect homemade pizza. I tried a couple of store-bought mixes for the crust (bag over head in shame). The first was ok but it had ingredients in it that I didn’t want in my body. The second one was a gluten-free mix. It wasContinue reading “Pizza Pizza”

A Lesson in Collard Greens

My CSA box last week contained a wide variety of greens: spinach, bordeaux spinach, herbs, kale and collard greens. Collards, a member of the cabbage family and intensely popular in the south, are not a vegetable I’d knowingly encountered before. Apparently Iowa is not suited for growing collards, even though they are a cold tolerant veggie.Continue reading “A Lesson in Collard Greens”

Little Stuff

I’ve been up to little stuff in the kitchen lately. Last weekend I made cottage cheese based on a recipe from this site. It was pretty easy and made for some decent cottage cheese. I did visit some other sites for help and combined some methods, which I think was the right thing to do. For example,Continue reading “Little Stuff”

Rye: An Inspiration

I was perusing the latest issue of Vegetarian Times and came across a recipe for Classic Rye Bread. Up to now, I’ve just been doing my same old bread recipe with a few variations so I was ready and open to the idea of trying a new bread. I can’t post the recipe here sinceContinue reading “Rye: An Inspiration”

Stuff it

First of all, happy new year from the kung fu kitchen! Hope it’s filled with good eats, peace and happiness! My first blog of 2009 revolves around stuffing it. In this case, I’ve roasted and stuffed some beautiful shrimp stuffed poblanos. This was the first time I roasted peppers at home. Or anywhere else forContinue reading “Stuff it”

Granola: if at first you don’t succeed…

A few weeks back I decided I wanted to try to make granola at home. It sounded easy enough. It’s just oats and stuff, mixed up and toasted, right? Who could screw this up? Well, it is easy enough. If you read the directions. Not like yours truely, who read through the recipe once andContinue reading “Granola: if at first you don’t succeed…”

Kolaches: Betta Czech Yourself…

When I was growing up my mom made so many great things to eat. Maybe this is why my sense of smell and my memories are so much entwined. A whiff of something can take me back to being an eight year old in a moment. All these memories are now driving me to theContinue reading “Kolaches: Betta Czech Yourself…”

How to Not Cook Fish

So a while back I bought a sushi making kit. For several weeks it has stared at me, waiting. Biding its time, knowing that eventually I would give in and try to unravel its secrets. Tonight, I opened Pandora’s sushi box. My first stop was to Fresh Market for the software, and boy did IContinue reading “How to Not Cook Fish”