Fondue is a total pain in the butt to do. It can be really delicious, but lots of things are delicious. And they aren’t such a hassle. Fact is, the hassle is why we do it. It turns dessert into a social activity. Anyone can buy a cake. We need more socializing.
After the pictures I posted recently of my meager pepper plants, you might be surprised to see that awesome harvest above. I know I was.
Way back in August Beah asked for pierogis. Being of Polish heritage, pierogis were a mainstay in family dinners. We never had potato and cheddar cheese filled ones, that’s more of an Americanized version. Ours were potato filled, sometimes with some bacon in it (!) and then sauteed with lots of butter and onions. Delicious! [...]
I noticed a while back that I had to be careful to check the ingredients even on things that seem like you can’t mess with them. Like cream. Lots of “heavy whipping cream” has added stabilizers and other stuff added so that it will whip up better. Not that it’s hard to whip real cream, [...]
Coke has their secret recipe, though it’s not quite as secret as people think. KFC has their 11 herbs and spices. But you ain’t Colonel Sanders. (I’d give a shout out on the off chance Harlan dropped by, but he died several years before I got my first internet connection.) So there’s not much chance [...]
