I love my small slow cooker.
I can cook 2 pork chops or 4 chicken thighs easily for the two of us with very little work.
I admit I do it the easy way… I don’t brown anything. I just put it all in, cover … Continue reading.....
I’ve posted this before, but it’s worth repeating for two reasons:
First – it really is the ‘Very Best Mustard Sauce’. It’s made be almost everyone in my large, extended family and, for some, it’s the only reason to have ham. I actually make it … Continue reading.....
I get a huge amount of French spam through my French email address.
Every few months I take the time to unsubscribe to 90% of it. It disappears for a few days, then slowly, inexorably, it creeps back.
Maybe if I unsubscribed to 100% I … Continue reading.....
I know, I know….. I’m always saying that I don’t like ‘hot’ foods.
I really should be more specific: it’s heat from capsaicin that I don’t tolerate. The heat from mustard or horseradish I can handle perfectly well (as long as it’s not too hot).… Continue reading.....
I no longer make pasta dishes.
After many attempts to get it sorted out we have conceded defeat.
Mon mari has tried and tried to get the insulin right, but without success..
I occasionally make it for myself, but I’m not really fond of cooking … Continue reading.....
Baking / roasting times for hams (and turkeys) are all over the charts…. And I’m not doing a chart.
For a ham the number of minutes per pound depends on whether it’s boneless or bone-in, fully cooked or not cooked and the weight of the … Continue reading.....
Ham is nice.
Most of us like ham.
But in my family, it’s not the ham that gets the attention, it’s the mustard sauce.
There was a hotel in the area I grew up in called ‘The Anderson House’. It was a classic, small hotel … Continue reading.....
There are over 40 different types of dry-cured ham in the display case at my supermarket: Prosciutto from Italy, Serrano from Spain, Westphalian from Germany, Bayonne from France and a few dozen more better and lesser known varieties from all over Europe.
There are around … Continue reading.....
Did you know that drying tobacco helps prevent moths?
Or so we were told when we bought this house.
The upper floor, which we are in the process of building out, (one can’t say restore because there was nothing there to restore – the same … Continue reading.....
Everything you ever wanted to know about sex (but were afraid to ask)…
Oooops!
Mustard! I meant Mustard!
Got your attention, though, didn’t it?
Everything you ever wanted to know about Mustard (but were afraid to ask).
Now, that’s better.
Although, Weekend … Continue reading.....
