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kitchen nightmares, or how to make a lemon-strawberry trifle with ginger and thyme
Alright, so today is Easter, which means church with the family and dinner to follow family dinner. And I am in charge of dessert, because dessert is what I do. And I tried to think of something to make that wouldn’t be too heavy, because it’s spring now, and spring doesn’t feel like heavy dessert … Continue reading
chocolate red-hot shortbread cookies
I don’t cook as much as I used to, because normally when I come home at night I’m so tired I’m ready to fall over dead, but every once in awhile, I’ll have an idea for something that I want to try. And so it was with these cookies, a pretty straightforward chocolate shortbread recipe … Continue reading
day ten: preserves
From pj: How long can you keep stuff in the freezer for before it goes bad? Do different things have different half lifes? I threw away some frozen chicken breasts and some hot dogs and some cured ham and some rolls and some white thing I couldn’t even begin to figure out what it was … Continue reading
peach cobbler is delicious
Yesterday, I got some peaches, and I had to turn them into this bourbon peach cobbler. (Recipe by Tyler Florence, one of the few people on Food Network I don’t hate. I always play with recipes a little… I followed this pretty closely, because it’s rather perfect as-is, but I did add a little (a … Continue reading
let’s make fun of the slap chop
Here are my thoughts on this delightful commercial, provided here with notes on which moment in the commercial I thought them: 0:01 — Hi, Vince. 0:05 — I’m gonna be in a great mood all day because I’m gonna be slapping my troubles away. With the Slap Chop. Aside from the obvious inference that slapping … Continue reading
why roasted tomatoes are a good idea
I have hated tomatoes all my life, so it’s probably weird for me to extol the virtues of roasted tomatoes, but in the words of Walt Whitman, “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself.” I hate raw tomatoes. There is something about the way they smell that never fails to make me … Continue reading
let’s talk about cake
So, I do a lot of cooking in my every day life, though this is a relatively recent phenomenon. Oh sure, I always knew how, and I could cook well if I needed to, usually with some sort of accompanying adventure/disaster (though I always found that in cooking, like in life, things always turn out … Continue reading
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