Documenting a year of cooking experiences
Woke up this morning and thought it might be a good idea to try my hand at making some homemade hotdogs. I don’t know why but why not. My thought was to make a beef and pork mixed hotdog and try to construct them without using a casing. Steam them first and then when time …
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We have been fairly healthy the last few weeks so we splurged today and had fried shrimp and fritters. My son got into the act and made individual sauces for everyone. Sriracha and ketchup for me, BBQ sauce and honey for him, and some ketchup concoction for my wife. The shrimp are super easy: 1 …
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This Friday I was a bit more motivated and I had a conversation with one of my coworkers who is originally from New Mexico about salsa verde so had to make some. As I have said before, I don’t by flatbread from the store any more as it is so easy to make and doesn’t …
The name of this dish stems from the fact that I kind of ever did it with the herbs on the pork tenderloin and my wife described it as Herbie goes too Hollywood which led to a whole discussion of the merits of talking VW bugs. Needless to say the pork tenderloin needs some work …
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My wife and I met in Arizona and before that I spent more than a decade in Colorado. We like our southwestern foods and we she randomly put a can of hominy on the cart last time we went shopping, pozole was on the menu. Our take is really simple, make a tomato-chicken broth, add …
To prepare for the week, we made a few dishes on Sunday to put in the fridge and break out when we are pressed for time with kid or family activities. This week we decided Shepard’s pie and posole would be the “heat up dinners.” Both of these do pretty well when the sit for …
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Today was a snow day for everyone which meant working from home until the kid went stircrazy and we had to go sledding. Once we got home it was a quick dinner of sliders and chips. I have really been brought over to using the store brand King’s Hawaiian dinner rolls for slider buns. For …
After getting the rest of the week taken care of, in terms of dinners when we know we won’t have time. Tonight is just a simple meal of fish, lentils and broccoli. The lentils take the most time so start them first. Everything else is ready in 5 minutes once you have the lentils done. …
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Our ice maker has been on the fritz lately so we decided that tomorrow, we are going to completely thaw it out to see if it was just a frozen water line. I have a unique habit of saving every single carcass that I butcher or roast to make my own broth. While looking to …
Even those of us who try to make fresh meals sometimes need huge short cuts. Friday was one of those nights for me. BLTs and frozen onion rings. I needed a break. I think we can all fry bacon, toast bread, and follow the directions on the back of frozen onion rings.
