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  • Friday Food Festival

    We're finally home and in our own kitchen again, but for a number of reasons, Isaac doesn't have much The Year Of Rachael Ray progress to report.He did make RR #4: Mac-N-Cheddar With Broccoli a few weeks ago. I found it…

  • Friday Food Festival

    Isaac has prepared two more dinners this week: RR#67 (Gorgonzola Burgers) and RR#209 (Black Beans & Sausage on Pumpkin Polenta--really!!) No pictures--we were too busy snarfing the food to take pictures of it.Both …

  • A Year of Rachael Ray??

    Isaac received some of his Christmas presents a little early this year.One of them was the above book--a cookbook from his Christmas list.Yes, he put cookbooks on his Christmas list.(He has also taken to watching food sh…

  • Friday Food Festival

    Isaac and I made a pie this week that was not from the Look and Cook: Pies book that we like so much.That book, oddly enough, didn't have a really good apple pie.Now, the The Pie and Pastry Bible, which is a good book, h…

  • Friday Food Festival

    A few days ago, Isaac and I made another pie from the above book.No, strike that.Isaac made another pie.It was called "Pear Pie with Walnut Crust."He had to grind some walnuts for the Walnut Crust.Our rotary cheese grate…

  • Friday Food Festival

    A bumper butternut crop!I love butternut squash. Our three little squash vines put out a moderately respectable quantity of fruit, the first part of which we enjoyed this week.My favorite thing to do with butternut squa…

  • Friday Food Festival

    A nice break in the weather has coincided with my need to have a break from reading exams. (55 down, 25 to go, by the way.)So, I'm frantically making things that I'll want in the next several months but will not want to…

  • Friday Food Festival: Cooking Lesson Edition

    Today's lesson is on the importance of ignoring your children when they whine.Well, not really. It's on how to make French Onion Soup. But whining does come into it. You'll see.We are getting back into Isaac's cooking…

  • Friday Food Festival: Plug-in Spaghetti Sauce

    I've mentioned before how much I like plug-in cooking.The above cookbook (a copy of which should be given to everyone on their twelfth birthday as a public health measure--seriously) helped me turn a lot of the things I …

  • House of Pancakes

    Or, how to have a reasonably quick gourmet healthy breakfast, even on a Sunday morning; or, what the makers of Bisquick don't want you to know.I love this cookbook. I haven't used it a lot, because I haven't been cookin…

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