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Sunday, July 25, 2021

Hot'n'Sour

I love a good hot'n'sour soup: I will try it every time I am in a new-to-me Asian restaurant. But there are different styles from different countries. Chinese is pretty basic, often just highly-peppered with a bit of tofu in a chicken broth base, a little thickened. Thai, on the other hand, is rich... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 15, 2021

BLTT w/ avocado

Bacon Lettuce Tomato Taco! Not doing sliced bread these days, but I did have a couple of ~8 inch diameter whole-grain tortillas on hand, and three chubby pieces of bacon. No flat lettuce, but a bag of chopped salad. So while the bacon fried (slowly on medium heat), I mixed the chopped salad--cabbage... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Revisiting chili

Back in March I reminisced here about my first attempt at making chili, and today found a new comment on that post, and that inspired this post! Canned chili... There are many brands, many recipes available. My mom favored Hormel, so that was the one I grew up with, and chose for a long time. But... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, July 6, 2021

baconbaconbaconbaconBACON...!

Since getting on the keto diet that trades energy from carbs for energy from fats, I have been enjoying bacon again. It was the thick-cut stuff, fried to not-quite-crisp, and very tasty, but I have found something even better. It's a regular thin-cut, less-sodium bacon. It cooks up much quicker to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 1, 2021

Picking watermelons

https://www.facebook.com/leafingout/photos/a.616149945207441/1927711857384570/ If that link doesn't work for you--and if you don't have Facebook, it probably won't--here are the basics: Choose one that shows webbing: It means bees were busy fertilizing this one as a flower, and that makes the fruit... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, June 20, 2021

TV Kitchens

Over the past several days, I've watched The Great British Menu. It's a contest for chefs to get their best recipes included on the menu for a grand annual banquet. This year it was to be held at Wimbledon, celebrating its 140th anniversary. The contest starts with three cooks from each of several... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, May 30, 2021

Garlic Greens

This morning I snipped some of the long greens of the garlic from my herb garden, to use them like chives on an omelet. They add color and nutrition, and the lightest suggestion of garlic. They are about the easiest herb to grow on the windowsill: break up a chunk of dried fresh garlic into its... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, May 16, 2021

Soup, Wonderful Soup!

I love a good soup! I like making good soups. They always start with a good base. I use vegetable or chicken broth a lot, and at Trader Joe's, I get cartons of a ginger/miso broth that is a great start to all sorts of clear soups. It starts with the broth, then gets a full personality with added... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, March 12, 2021

Fruit oddities

I promised pictures of the strange and even bizarre fruits I brought home from the Asian Pacific Market the other day: https://flic.kr/ps/rhS1C Do you know these? If you do, and have any recipes or hints on what to do with them, I'm all ears! Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Adventures in Groceries

I drove out to the Asia Pacific Market this afternoon, and as I was on my own, could spend as much time as I wanted going up and down the aisles, looking at labels, checking out the exotics. I came home with a few things I've never seen in stores before, let alone bought. I figure if I know the name... Sign in to see full entry.

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The Kitchen is always a place of warmth--sometimes too warm--and gratifications, of indulgences, clever solutions, and occasional disasters. It is a place of recipes and experimentation. This blog is going to be hanging out in the kitchen for a while.

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