RecipeMuncher

As sometimes happens, I take plenty of process pictures and then totally forget to take a picture of the final product. That’s what happened last night. Times two. Earlier in the day I’d come up with ideas for dinner: Grilled…

I think my recent fun playing with phyllo (or filo) dough got me wanting to make something else with it. I’ve wanted to make apple strudel for a while now. Odd that I’ve never made it before, but you know…

No, really! Don’t look outside, though. Look inside… First up, we’ve got a red noodle bean. Do you remember the red noodle beans we grew last year? (I know, there should be some other post I could link to, but…

These are my cute, but rather shaggy children. Or, rather, these were my cute, but rather shaggy children. Well, they still are my children. And cute. But the shagginess is no more. And no, I have no idea why Julia…

They have some sort of radar. Any time I toss out scraps of bread, stale cookies, or things like that, within minutes, a small flock of seagulls begins to circle our back yard, slowly spiraling down until one or two…

Oh, yum. You should make this. So. Here we are at the third and final chapter of Baking Something Chocolate and Fabulous with My Awesome Niece, Natalie. If you missed the other chapters, here are the links: Part 1 Part…

So while Natalie and I were putting the pound cakes together today… Bill and Alex got their shovels and dug out one of the winter gardens. Want to see what they found? Click here!

Here’s the second part of Chocolate Baked Good Day with My Awesome Niece Natalie! Part one is here. Okay, so here we’ve got all our ingredients measured out and ready to go: flour, milk, sugars, eggs, cocoa powder, salt, baking…

My awesome niece, Natalie, is here today, and we’ve selected a Chocolate Pound Cake as our Chocolate Baked Good of Choice. I’ll post the recipe at the end of everything. For now, here’s an action shot of Natalie cracking eggs:…

On Wednesday we had yet another snow day. No school for Bill or the kids. Actually, snow day isn’t quite accurate. More like sleet/freezing rain/yuck day. Definitely not a day to frolic and play outdoors. The night before, when we…

It’s been ages since I made cheese. And, despite some missteps along the way, I’ve missed it. So, finally, I carved out some time last week, gathered my milk and starters, rennet and cheesecloth, and jumped back into the game….

Random notes of the morning… ~~~ Yes, it’s snowing. Again. We’ve got all sorts of stormy excitement scheduled here, as you probably know (and may be experiencing yourself) if you watch the news or are in the path of this…

The other evening, the kids were playing outside, enthusiastically and energetically careening down our backyard mountain. Alex overshot the sled and slid down on his face. When he came inside, his head hurt, his mouth was a bit bloody, and…

Ohhhh, I totally forgot what day of the week it was. The snow days we’ve had over the last couple of weeks keep throwing me off track, at least mentally, and yesterday I kept thinking it was Sunday, because everyone…

Sorry it’s blurry – I blame the darkness of 4:37 A.M. in the morning for that. I got up this morning at 4:29 to start coals and inject a pork but with…well, part of me keeps wanting to say “moisturizer”…

And yes, I’m suddenly an eight year old boy. Or a twelve year old boy. Or an eighteen year old boy. Or a 26 year old boy. Or a 40 year old boy…. Hm. Well okay, you get the idea….

Early this morning when I started the coals and injected the pig, I put this hat on. And I have kept it on all day so far. Somehow it seems I MUST keep this hat on for the duration of…

In case you can’t tell, they’re holding pieces of walnuts in their little cookie arms. I was in the mood for cinnamon. And we’ve had our little squirrel friends stopping by for seeds and scraps of toast and stale bread…

Bill and the kids and I went to our favorite Asian market recently to stock up on a few things and get ingredients for a couple of meal ideas Bill had been kicking around. Part of the fun of shopping…

Here’s Julia, “Slippers,” the kitten, and the quilt Julia made for Slippers. We finished it last night. The bulk of the work was really done on Sunday – the cutting and piecing together the four blocks. After that, we worked…

Yesterday Bill took Alex ice fishing. It’s cold up here in the northeast right now, –1 F this morning, for example, so the ice on the local ponds is pretty thick. The menfolk dressed warmly and brought an extra pair…

I figured I’d start out with some of the easier repairs first. There are a few spots where just a single piece of fabric is frayed or torn, with nothing going on nearby. Like the square above. There was a…

It snowed here. I think it started falling in RI around three this morning. When we got up several hours later, we had about 3-4 inches of pretty, powdery snow covering everything. Including the bird seed. But when you’re hungry,…

One of the nicest things, so far, about cooking my way through Dorie’s Around My French Table with the wonderful French Fridays with Dorie gang is that I usually have all or most of the ingredients already on hand. It’s…