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+ End of the Year Ramblings + Well, this year wasn't a very good one for blogging. Or for doing much of anything, really.  I lazed around for most of it and [...] I may post more about my specific thoughts in future posts.    The River Cottage Treatment Hungry for a Month

+ A New Post! + Well, we haven't had any Friday Night Feasts in many months now, and my own dinner parties have not happened through the summer since [...] pretty happy with it, as it eminds me what to do when I need a reminder.  Good stuff.  Here's to hoping I update more often...

+ Vegetarian? + What do you do when you have $35 of produce delivered to your front door every week?  You try your damndest to use as much of it as [...] take bananas and oranges to snack on during the day.    Anyway, just thought I'd share.  Time to go check on the onions...

+ Grilled Cheese Sammich + Okay, so I'm showing up a little late to the party , but better late than never, eh?  My entry in the Grilled Cheese Sandwich [...] I took a picture and may post it when I get off my ass long enough to upload it.  Suffice it to say, it was one damn fine sammich.

+ Ice Creamy Chocolate Sauce + So if a guest brings over some vanilla ice cream for a dessert (cardamom-cinnamon apple crisp) and leaves half a gallon of it behind [...] of the 100% cocoa.  Pour over ice cream.  Enjoy the dickens out of it.  Excuse me while I go get a refill...

+ Boucheron and Indian Food + What do boucheron and Indian food have in common?  They are both things I want to talk about but am too lazy to separate them into [...] to pick another dish and work on it...  Maybe someday one of my big dinner parties will have an Indian theme.  We'll have to see.

+ Random Kitchening + Though I haven't been blogging very often, I have been cooking often.  I should be taking more pictures and blogging more about it, [...] the skins.  Since applesauce is pureed at the end, I figured this was a good one to try it out on.  I could probably go either way

+ March Madness Dinner Party + The blogging has lagged recently, even though the cooking hasn't.  Last weekend, I hosted another big dinner party.  It was a bit [...] or help in the kitchen (hint for the cooking-haters: cleaning up is a valid and appreciated way to help.).   I plan to make

+ Kitchen Tips + Has it really been over a week since I last blogged?  Wow...  Well, here's a list of some stuff I've learned in the last week. [...] is about as light as you're gonna find. Chef'n's silicone-coated cooking chopsticks rock hard.  Go get yourself a pair t

+ Late Night Cooking + What'll a weekly organic produce box delivered to your door and ownership of a fine piece of Le Creuset get you?  Soup at [...] I tried my food loops and they worked beautifully), and bay leaf from the front yard, and I have a pot of soup that'll last me two o

+ Kitchen Odds and Ends + There really have been too many kitchen things going on that I've been too busy to write about 'em.  From chili to penne and [...] sure you let the chili sit for a long time (a couple days in the fridge--or maybe a few more hours slow cooking, I'll have to try that

+ Feasting the Big Three-Ooooh (Part 3) + "No problem" was the refrain from the handyman every time I mentioned the Thursday night deadline--even up until [...] I thought it was damn tasty.   Highlights in no particular order: My first bread ever!  A rosemary focaccia.

+ Feasting the Big Three-Ooooh (Part 2) + ...the emails.  I'll comment more on the evening in a post to follow (the menu below happened with only two differences: the rose [...] be caramelized vegetables of some sort, whether as part of a dish or as a dish in itself. There will be rosemary, cut fresh

+ Feasting the Big Three-Ooooh (Part 1) + This is a special version of the Friday Night Feast, and will probably take a few posts to cover.  There were three planning emails, [...] that the whole thing even happens, since it does require a kitchen and my kitchen is definitely not done yet--but Mr. Handyman

+ Friday Night Feasts: 2006 Edition + The planning mail to attendees Well, [Pip]'s back from Britland and everyone else seems to be sticking around for the most part [...] more acceptable currently? Some shrimp as finger food... what about my garlic lime cayenne shrimp if I promise not to over cay

+ A First + Well, all I can say about tonight is "damn."  I haven't had such an amazing, tasty, fulfilling evening in years.  [...] which was enough for me to feel quite toasty, but he made it home fine, as evidenced by his appearance on MSN Messenger later that

+ Tonight's the Night! + After owning this house for 28 months and living in it for 21, I finally get to cook in my kitchen for the first time.  Since I was [...] .  Just don't do it.   So no cooktop...  no sauteing, no searing, no braising, no frying, no deglazing... what's left?  Bak

+ Why Do I Cook? + Well, I can't say that I cook very often currently, not having a kitchen and all, but the kitchen is progressing and should be in a [...] lucky, sometimes both).  I am by no means a doomsayer about preservatives and additives to food, but I do wonder what all those chem

+ Thanksgiving Challenge 2006: Part I + When I told my parents that my house would finally, after two years of owning it, have a kitchen by early 2006, my mother [...] nuts (pecans, almonds, walnuts) Mashed Potatoes Garlic?  Gravy?  Herbed?  Parsnips? Pumpkin

+ Negligence + Has it really been over a month since I last posted?  Wow.  A shameful act.  In my defense, all of the usual cast has been out of [...] with a house guest this coming Sunday.  Until then, I may have some more to say on a few subjects.  Let me know if you approve.

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