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Because I love cooking so much, I tend to haunt various grocery stores – hunting out those small specialty shops, and searching for unique ingredients to play with. Every so often, I find one of those specialty grocery stores with a prepared food counter – and have on more than one occasion seen Roasted Garlic [...]

The rain came back again today, which made me sad, but fortunately I had a lot of things to keep me busy today that helped distract me from the doom and gloom. (I like my rain in very small doses – the last several weeks have been way overdose). Anyhow, the reason I was so [...]

I’ve been making a lot of dishes lately that just called for egg yolks, and so I’ve ended up with quite the bounty of egg whites. I looked around for different things I could do with egg whites, and eventually decided to try out making Pavlova. I’ve never had it before, so I’m not sure [...]

I will never buy Mayo again! I’ve heard other people sing the praises of homemade mayonnaise before, but until recently, I never actually got around to making it. There really is no comparison. I made my first batch the night we made the fries, but it was so delicious, half of it was gone before [...]

Yesterday, the sun finally came out after many days of rain and I finally felt like I could dry off for a little while. In celebration, I ran some errands I’d been putting off during the rain – including a trip to Costco. While I was there, I was sorely tempted by their bakery’s whole [...]

I was up late, late, late last night making sausage last night (it took way longer than I thought it would) and didn’t really get a lot of sleep last night, which doesn’t generally put me in the best of moods, but it certainly didn’t help that Miss Thing was no doubt, having another teen [...]

Miss Thing had a friend spend the night on Saturday. It happened to be her best friend at school, and the first time said friend had come over – so of course, she drove us all nuts trying to get everything just perfect. We still haven’t really unpacked or anything yet, mostly because we decided [...]

I decided the other day that I would, in addition to making my own hot sauce and such, start trying out making other condiments. This is my first attempt at Catsup, served with Homemade French Fries. For a first attempt, it went surprisingly well. I made it a few days ago, and put it in [...]

I haven’t really been cooking too much the last few days, and what I have made wasn’t really fit to be printed. But I did makes this lovely dish. It’s light, quick and easy but also satisfying and hearty, plus it’s low on the cleanup afterwards! I think that the Lemon really shines, without being [...]

I still had one lonely little butternut squash sitting in the pantry last night, looking all forlorn and forgotten – so when we were hunting around for an easy dinner, I decided to make a soup with him.  The Coconut Milk and the Squash make this soup rich, creamy, and satisfying without the addition of [...]