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. … [Read more...]
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How To Make Pierogis, First Try
October 28, 2008 (Updated March 24, 2014) by
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 sautéed with lots of butter and onions. Delicious! If we felt "bad," we'd also whip up a batch of boiled green beans, sautéed with (more) bacon and butter.They seem like a fall dish to me, so I finally got around to doing … [Read more...]
Heluva Funny Label
October 27, 2008 (Updated March 24, 2014) by
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, but nothing is so perfect that someone won't try to "improve" it. Sorry, going off on a tangent there. My point was, that's why I found myself checking the ingredients on a container of Heluva Good sour cream. … [Read more...]
No Secret Recipes
October 26, 2008 (Updated May 17, 2015) by
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 you've got some secret recipe that's going to make you rich. Oh sure, you might, but it's kind of like planning to win the lottery: You better have a plan B. … [Read more...]
How To Make Apple Cake
October 23, 2008 (Updated March 23, 2014) by
Apple pie. Dutch apple pie. Caramel apple pie. French apple pie. Okay, I got it, there are about a million different apple pie recipes. (Five million, actually, according to Google.) But you don't see apple cake very often. Which doesn't make any sense to me, because this thing is awesome. It's my wife's great-great-grandmother's recipe. Yes, the same one we got the bread bowl from. … [Read more...]
