Growing up, the only roasted vegetables I remember were fit into the pan and nestled around the chicken or beef roast. They were potatoes and carrots, that was it. Delicious? Of course they were, mostly because they hung out in the drippings for an hour or more. Healthy? Not so much. These days, I roast [...]
Archive for February, 2010
February 21 2010
Tex-Mex Chicken Stew
I assure you that we didn’t raise our son to be someone who “rubs it in.” But it seems as if he can’t go into a Mexican restaurant without snapping a photo of some mouthwatering plate of enchiladas, tamales, or what have you. Molly, to a lesser extent, has begun to walk his path, sending [...]
February 18 2010
Steak Diane – Fancy the Past
Today I have a lengthy reach back to the past. Sometimes I amaze myself at an increasingly fleeting ability to recall what some might consider to be trivia. Patience – I do have a point and a picture to paint. So we go back to my childhood in Minneapolis. It’s the early 1960′s and clearly [...]
February 15 2010
Oatmeal Buttermilk Wheat Bread
How fortuitous that I came across this recipe just last week. It’s from fellow blogger Annie of Annie’s Eats. I grabbed it immediately with resolution to bake it “soon.” The timing turned out to be perfect. Mix, rise, shape, rise, bake – all last Tuesday night before the east coast snow apolcalypse. I had a [...]
