Kitchen Shenanigans

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Friday, May 13, 2022

...and Garden Shenanigans!

This wooden table base has been in the storage for quite a long time. I brought it out to get rid of it at the yardsale this past weekend, but I started to get ideas when I saw it again. Happily, it didn't sell. Instead, this all happened: https://flic.kr/ps/rhS1C At Lowes, I found this sturdy... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Breakfast...

It used to be either eggs or hot cereal: My mom alternated them, and the cereal varied between corn meal mush, oatmeal, and wheatena mostly. Small glass of orange juice, tall glass of milk... that was breakfast on weekdays. She had a lot of different recipes for eggs besides the old standards. One... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, April 7, 2022

New in the pantry

At Trader Joe's yesterday I was looking particularly for low-carb stuff, but also still interesting stuff. I found onion crisps, broccoli snacks, and egg wraps. The onion crisps... Well, think of Pringles made of onion instead of potatoes. The chips are smaller, and turn kind of pasty in the mouth.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, April 3, 2022

"Engage brain before putting mouth in gear..."

Charlie will be coming over later for lunch. I bought some potato-encrusted cod pieces... Yes, that's what I called them when I invited him over. Had I thought a bit more before speaking, I'd have said "pieces of cod." Or the word "portions" might have come into it. Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, March 30, 2022

The fabulous Blooming Onion

I've eaten them in restaurants a couple of times, but I've never tried to make one at home, until now. I looked online at recipes, and the thing is, I don't really want (or need) the deep-fried, battered version. So I have cut off the ends, and cut down ~3/4 of the way through, annointed the top... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, March 28, 2022

Not according to recipe...

Chicken lettuce wraps are one of my favorite things at PF Changs, so when I found the sauce for it at the grocery store, I brought some home. This morning I mixed it up with not ground chicken, but pork. Mainly this was because I had the pork, but not any ground chicken. I chopped up onions and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Kitchen upheavals

After committing to bringing home a cat on Thursday, I started looking around at what needs to be done to prep the house. My previous two cats never ate plants, never knocked things onto the floor for fun, rarely upset anything but me. This one, though, is an unknown! So yesterday I cleared all the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, March 21, 2022

Kitchen upgrades

Over the weekend, the old toaster oven made way for a smallish/suitable for one air-fryer, and the old electric tea kettle for a new one. The air-fryer does all that the toaster oven could do, but also has a convection fan which circulates the hot around the food to cook it more evenly. Instead of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Swordfish II

We had some lovely swordfish steaks last night while we watched LIFE OF PI. It has been quite a while, and I knew that last time there had been a secret for success in not overcooking this particular fish, but I couldn't remember what it was. But I did remember writing about it here. So I 'searched'... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, March 12, 2022

odds and ends

In the war against the carbs, lettuce wraps are a great way to enjoy sandwich fillings. I had some seafood salad--mixed with coleslaw--wrapped in iceberg lettuce today. It was pretty tasty! I wouldn't suggest it as a sub for pb&j, however. A few nights ago I made some little meatballs with some... 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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