Quick-cooking polenta makes a very easy side dish for a quick dinner.
If you have just a bit more time it makes cute single-serve timbales.
These slip out of the ramekins easily but still hold their shape making for a very pretty presentation.
The Caramelized … Continue reading.....
This is a re-do of a post I did years ago.
The photo I had was not very appetizing….
Beef in a red wine / brown sauce is hard to photo creatively. I even commented in the post about it at the time.
This one … Continue reading.....
I saw something similar to this somewhere…. As is typical of me.
At 3:00 in the morning I woke up and started thinking about dinner….. As is also typical of me.
And so a recipe is created.
I made this for New Year’s Eve dinner … Continue reading.....
When one cooks with red onions, red wine and red Balsamic vinegar the results tend to be very, well, dark…. almost black.
This may seem like a fussy dish to make but it really isn’t.
The polenta is made quickly and can cool on the … Continue reading.....
In the beginning of time I always varied the carbohydrate component of our dinners. In a typical week we would have pasta twice, rice of some sort twice, potatoes twice and something else – quinoa, barley, couscous or polenta.
Then mon mari had his pancreas … Continue reading.....
Someone once asked me where I came up with new recipe ideas.
Easy – whatever needs to be used at the moment.
Well, actually, not so easy.
There are many days where I struggle to come up with something new and a bit creative using … Continue reading.....
Month 5 of the Secret Recipe Club.
This month I had fun exploring Cupcake Muffin.
And I had a lot of fun…. Sara has been blogging almost as long as I have (and that’s a really long time). She has a wide variety of … Continue reading.....
My search for butternut squash recipes continues.
A few weeks ago an email came across my screen that caught my interest.
To be honest, I get so many, and most are not worth the effort to hit the delete button…
I tucked it away, without … Continue reading.....
One more holiday weekend….
Eat, Drink and be Merry, for tomorrow we may diet!
You might find one or all of these small bites I made useful for a New Year's party.
Our neighbor hosted a small Christmas dinner party, for those of us, who, … Continue reading.....
While I take a break visiting family, step back with me in time to 3 years ago, when we were homeless, to the beginning of this project…. And all of our frustrations:
I'm not quite sure how to say this….
But our chimneys don't go … Continue reading.....
