These rolls were popular at this morning’s dress rehearsal for a choir Christmas concert tomorrow. The recipe is adapted from Overnight Cinnamon Rolls in tasteofhome.com, although I flipped their process to better fit serving them for breakfast. In my version, the dough is made the night before, and after its first rising is rolled out, Read More …
This is an adaptation of an idea in tasteofhome.com for an easy midweek dinner, mainly using pantry staples, and emphasizing Greek flavors. Part of the adaptation was a successful experiment to do almost all of the cooking in my rice cooker. The general idea (which is used in the recipe below) is to start with Read More …
This Italian entrée salad is adapted from Lidia Bastianich’s cookbook Lidia’s Italy in America. I chose it because Carol is fond of artichokes. I have sized this for 2 servings. I liked the bread cubes in it, but Carol did not. The next time I make it I may simply double the chickpeas and omit Read More …
I was at Wegman’s a few days ago when I spotted a jar of sour cherries from somewhere in Eastern Europe, and thought I should make a dessert with them. After looking around my recipes for a while, I decided to make a cobbler with a recipe adapted from The Best Recipe from Cook’s Illustrated, Read More …
This was the second dish I cooked with a large piece of frozen venison which I was given by one of my fellow Scouters. The first was Venison Chili . This ragout (i.e. stew) was also adapted from Robb Walsh’s Texas Eats, and used up the remaining 4 lbs. of venison meat, as well as Read More …
A few months ago, a hunter gave me a large piece of frozen venison, which I have kept in my chest freezer while I tried to figure out what to do with it. I decided to adapt two recipes from Robb Walsh’s Texas Eats, since there are a lot of deer hunters in Texas trying Read More …
There are curry variants all over the world, often in seemingly unlikely places, like Japan. (Here is a good example of a Japanese curry: Japanese Retro Beef Curry ) A week ago, the Wall St. Journal published a recipe for a Nigerian curry in their “Slow Food Fast” series, which means that it is suitable Read More …
Fajitas are properly made from skirt steaks, which once upon a time were very inexpensive, as well as very flavorful. These days, skirt steaks are frequently so expensive, that when I want to make fajitas, I use sirloin steak instead. I was at New Grand Mart recently buying some Asian ingredients, and was pleasantly surprised Read More …
I have seen a couple of articles on the internet in which ravioli is used to make a simplified version of lasagna. This sounded like a good idea for car camping, so last night I did a successful proof of concept adapted from a Food52 article. I plan on using this for dinner on the Read More …
In recent years, I have gotten lazy (or have not planned ahead) and have generally microwaved my “baked” potato. It was ready in 7 minutes, vs. the 1 hour+ that it takes for the oven, and that seemed like a good deal. I recently read an article in www.thekitchn.com extolling the virtues of actually baking Read More …