Kitchen Shenanigans

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Sunday, November 8, 2020

Duck!

Yesterday was a day of celebration in this house, and I splurged out, ordering Peking Duck from a local Chinese place. Charlie isn't that into duck, and so it was all mine! And as it is an entire duck, boneless and cut into bite-size pieces, there was quite a lot of it. I also ordered a large... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, November 6, 2020

Tuna tastiness!

Tuna salad... The classic is great the way my mom made it, always using albacore, solid white from a can. She added onion and celery, both diced very small, and lemon juice, dill weed, parsley, and dill weed. She mixed it with a good dollop of Hellman's mayonaise. I can still taste her tuna salad... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, November 5, 2020

About Eggs

I watched a video recently of one of the great chefs--Wolfgang Puck, I think--about how to cook the perfect fried egg. The key, apparently, is to cook at low temperature with a lid on. This way the white stays tender and the yolk, slightly skinned-over, perfectly runny for dipping 'soldiers.' Today... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, October 30, 2020

Back to Keto

Today I am frying some pork belly, rendering down the fat so it is more like chunks of bacon. Having learned from my earlier attempt to prepare it, I started by slicing the whole piece into many quarter-inch thick pieces, and rendered them down in my cast iron skillet at medium to low-medium heat.... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, October 29, 2020

Some changes being made... Bring your spoon!

This blog-page has altered its persona overnight. What was before prompts for writers, it is now prompts for food and cookery. The intent here is to focus on our so many experienced cooks in the Blogit community, to share the goodness in an area of less controversy than just about any other area of... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

What have you loved your whole life?

I've been thinking about the things I have loved and been fascinated by as long as I can remember. Cats, for one... Books, cuddling, cookies & milk... and light in darkness: I remember looking out at the moonlit world. I was ~2, used to stand on the windowsill beside my crib, and gaze out at the... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Memories...

Having just had a birthday, I am thinking about memorable ones of the past. I don't actually remember very many from childhood. There was one when I was... 7? 8? when my presents were hidden and I had to follow clues to find them. I never did get it, and they had to tell me, which disappointed my... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Exit strategies

If you had only a day to evacuate your home that might not be there when you could come back, what would you take with you? Assume you would have a good sized car, even a van or truck. Taking portable pets is a given, of course. What would you pack out if you had only a few hours? What if you had an... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, September 3, 2020

Earliest memories

CCT wrote recently about early memories. We all have them, though they are not all consciously accessible. I remember one when I was around 2, and we visited my sister's kindergarten to see some ducklings swimming in a bathtub. There was another, later, when I was 3, I think, when we had driven out... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, August 31, 2020

spin-off from today's Ciel Show post

The Amazing Race... Do you watch, or have you watched it? Here's why I do: As reality games go, it's about more than cunning, head-games, or physical attractiveness. It requires both physical and mental agility, language skills, and courage, a willingness to abandon comfort zones. Some players are... Sign in to see full entry.

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