I am lucky enough to have two pantries in my kitchen. I have filled one with oils, vinegars, pastas, grains, dried beans, canned beans/tomatoes/exotic things like baby corn and bamboo shoots, dried peppers/mushrooms/shrimps/flowers, many different flours, crackers, many different rices among various things we have canned ourselves. Its good to have a variety of stuff [...]
Sorry I’ve been away so long. On a mini vacation and then sick with the hacking cough and upper respiratory ICK! But, I’m back! We had a really nice and sunny mini vacation on the mid Oregon coast near Tillamook. We walked on the beach, visited the Cape Mearnes Lighthouse and spent a day in [...]
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OMG, OMG, OMG!!! This is the best sandwich ever!!! You just cannot believe what a freshly baked baguette and lovely ingredients do to make a savory sandwich. Yummy, yummy, yummy!!! The baguette is fairly easy but making the bread takes three days with a little fiddling and not too much hands on time. The sandwich [...]
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I had some broccoli and red bell pepper that needed using up and since we have been cooking a lot of Italian dishes out of Lidia’s Cookbook, I had inspiration to throw this dish together. Some people like a very creamy casserole, some like it less creamy, I’m one of those. Growing up I had [...]
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I have been making soda bread for about 30 years and a lovely brown bread from a recipe of a restaurant in western Galway. This soda bread is more a Cork recipe. The caraway seeds are used sparingly on special occasions. I think St. Patty’s Day is one to use them. Do use the Kerrygold [...]
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I just love making salads and this one is really full of flavor. I had some savoy cabbage and fresh herbs in the fridge that just spoke to me, and the dressing is easy to make and tasty. I usually buy lots of lemons when they are on sale and juice and zest them and [...]
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Let me tell you about a wonderful cookbook that I recently got and have been cooking out of for a few weeks. It’s “Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy” based on her cooking show on PBS. The book is a collection of recipes from the regions of Italy with lots of stories about the [...]
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Once upon a time there was a chicken pot pie that lived in the 50′s in frozen dinner land in America. It was salty and sugary and pasty and got less and less appealing and more and more frankenfood as the decades passed by. I got a hankering for a pot pie to my liking, [...]
These cabbage rolls were yummy! They really were green and still a little raw and toothsome. It’s really interesting that I have an idea (like making cabbage rolls) then, everywhere I look on the intertubes is a recipe! Most of the recipes called for meat or fake meat (which I really, really don’t like). I [...]
This soup was really easy to put together and tasted so wonderful. The adjustments to the seasoning sauces is the key. Find your perfect combination and you will be happy. Notice that there is no salt or pepper here? You may put it on the table along with some seasoning sauce and fish sauce!
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