We all know I love my slow cookers. I’ve even tried my hand at barbecued chicken in one. It was a nice treat to have in the middle of winter. I haven’t experimented a lot with barbecue recipes, mainly because, other than chicken, we don’t eat a lot of what would be traditional barbecue meats – like ribs and pulled … Continue reading.....
This is Roast Leg of Lamb for Two…. sort of.
It was a perfect size for us to have a nice dinner with enough left over to make a ‘pie’ the next night.
When we got our lamb last August we had one leg left whole and made Roast Leg of Lamb for the family when they were here.
I grow a lot of our vegetables.
We eat a lot of mushrooms, but it never occurred to me that I could grow them myself.
Years ago when I was installing a computer system at a Chinese restaurant in Minneapolis (my story at the Nankin) I was given a tour of the basements / cellars under the restaurant. … Continue reading.....
We have had a very cold, wet, rainy fall. The farm ponds are all full to overflowing which is supposed to happen by the end of March, not the end of November.
I have no idea where the winter rains will go but I’m grateful to be on a hill.
We’ve been lighting fires earlier than usual, every day, and … Continue reading.....
Everything I make seems to be orange lately….
It’s either butternut squash, pumpkin, or a tomato sauce, which should be red, but then I add yogurt and paprika or, in this case, horseradish, and it turns orange.
For the curious…. this is what it really looked like. There might have been an orange tomato in there, too….
This is based … Continue reading.....
I never ate a parsnip when I lived on the other side of the pond.
I never knew anyone who had eaten a parsnip.
I had never even seen a parsnip, although I did know they existed.
It turns out that the Brits love parsnips. I learned that because after we moved to France my British friends were constantly complaining … Continue reading.....
I had my first bad experience with Amazon last week.
In retrospect, that’s rather amazing as I, like probably most people, do a lot of shopping on Amazon. I buy from Amazon U.S., U.K, France and Germany, (You do know your account is good at every Amazon in the world, right?)
I ordered some baking trays. My oven is small … Continue reading.....
We love sage leaves and use them often, both as a garnish and as a major flavor component.
My mother, on the other hand, barely tolerated the taste…. possibly because all she ever had was an old Durkee’s tin of ‘crumbled sage’ that was resurrected every year at this time to add to the stuffing for the turkey.
She was … Continue reading.....
