Food development efforts
This week in Houston has been terribly cold. As a result, I decided I REALLY wanted a good beef stew for dinner one night. Last winter, I had a terrific Guinness Stew at Paddy Murphy’s in Bangor. So I decided to try to make one of my own with a few modifications. I started with […]
As usual my spouse made WAY too many side dishes for Thanksgiving dinner. I don’t mind this when it comes to stuffing which is a big favorite of mine. But there are only so many mashed potatoes I can eat before I’ve had enough. While mashed potatoes aren’t one of my favorite things, gnocchi are. […]
I typically make a warm appetizer for Thanksgiving Day. Each year I try something a little bit different. In past years, I’ve made stuffed mushrooms, mini quiche, and mini tacos. This year I decided to make spinach stuffed puffed pastry. First, I preheated the oven to 400 degrees, While I was waiting for the oven […]
It has been cold and rainy here for more than a week. My spouse has wanted soups for dinner. I made a cream of broccoli cheese one earlier in the week but decided tonight I wanted something without a dairy base. I like both Italian wedding soup and minestrone. However, I didn’t have a complete […]
Earlier this week I posted a picture of this recipe I decided to make on the fly to Facebook and everyone said it looked SO GOOD. So I decided that maybe I should post it here for others to find and try to replicate. Ingredients 1 – 1 1 /2 pound pork tenderloin Flour, egg, […]
We often make bacon for breakfast on the weekend. It is one of my son’s favorite things. The problem is that we always have bacon grease leftover. I can put it in with our compost but this seems like a waste. So I’ve been trying to think of other ways to use it. The solution […]
Every year my lemon tree has more lemons than I know what to do with. So from mid-October til Christmas I scurry around trying to figure out what I’m going to do with them. I’ve posted several times in the past about various recipes I’ve made. This year my dig project was lemon curd. I […]
Growing up in Maine, lobster stew was always something we’d make with the leftovers from a lobster boil. We’d pick out the tiny bits of meat and cook the shells to make a rich stock. Our stew used this stock cream/milk, butter, onion and the lobster bits. Moving to Texas 15+ years ago lobster isn’t […]
I’m decidedly NOT a morning person. While I like tasty things for breakfast, the morning doesn’t bring out my best kitchen skills. So I REALLY don’t like to have to prepare anything in the mornings. PC (pre-covid) I’d often just go to Starbucks, Panera, or the grocery store and grabs something. That option is no […]
One thing that is super cool about living in Texas is that once a year we get hatch chiles. Hatch chiles are a particular variety of chiles from Hatch, NM. When they are fresh they are light green in color and shaped similar to a poblano pepper. It is pretty typical here for Mexican and […]