We have a winner. 🙂 Can you tell I am smiling?After just 6 attempts, I have found my chocolate cake. Oh, is this one good. I admit that I was getting a little discouraged with the recipes I was finding. It did not make sense to me that there was […]

Let’s start with the almost success, pictured above. Today in my quest to find Rachel’s chocolate wedding cake I tried two more recipes. The one on top is actually Baker’s One Bowl Chocolate Cake. The change I made there was to use Ghirardelli chocolate chips instead of the semi-sweet baking […]

So I’ve had a jar of Patek’s mild curry paste lurking in my fridge for a long time. I bought it several months ago to make a coconut and shrimp soup. The soup was good, needed some tweaking, but the paste has sat ever since. The good thing is that […]

Tonight I returned to The New York Times Chicken Cookbook. I am attempting to find new ways to cook chicken for easier weeknight meals. So far I am succeeding. Usually if I have a cut up chicken, or chicken parts, my first reaction is to simply bake it. Which is […]

So for those who don’t know, Rachel and Cody’s wedding is coming up quickly, on February 18th. I have been honored by being asked to make the wedding cake. At least I think I’m honored. 🙂 Rachel would like three layers. The largest layer will be a chocolate cake with […]

I changed my mind three times today before I decided to go ahead and make this chicken. I went back and forth as to whether or not it would be well received by my family. But Braised Chicken Legs In Mustard Sauce was fantastic. I pulled this recipe out of […]

I don’t have much new to post tonight. Some friends of ours stopped in today and thrust a pair of baby back ribs into my hands, saying they’d be back in two hours. 🙂 So we shared a fantastic meal of ribs tonight, and unfortunately, the pictures don’t look too […]

I love stew. It is another one of those comfort food things. My only problem is that I don’t make a fine stew. Except for my chicken stew, but since that is really my pot pie filling without the crust, it doesn’t really count. In the January issue of Cooking […]

Tonight’s dinner was very simple, but quite good. Hoisin and Honey Glazed Pork Chops was a super simple meal. The original source is Gourmet magazine, but the inspiration came from my Sister-In-Law Belle who asked if I had a recipe for such a thing. A brief search found several different […]

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Andy was very sweet to me for Christmas. As you can see. There is a picture on my blog!!!!! Yeppers. My sweetie got me my digital camera. I can’t wait to learn everything there is to know about my camera. I am really looking forward to experimenting, and being able […]

I promised a recipe for Pierogi, and never returned to share it. Shame on me. I am back to share it now. This is the recipe that Andy’s parents use, and I suspect have for years. The dough is very much like a pasta dough, and vry tough to knead, […]