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For the last month I’ve been working on my cream of mushroom soup recipe. I’ve made it three times making some slight adjustments each time. I made my latest batch, this Sunday. The two aspects of the soup I’ve been working on are consistency and flavor. In my opinion a cream of whatever soup should […]

I’m a super big fan of short ribs. I like to buy them when they are on sale in the bargain bin at the grocery store and put them in the freezer for when I have a serious craving. Sometimes I make Texas-style chili with them. Sometimes I cook them down Mexican style and make […]

One of the most difficult things about liking to cook is being your own worst critic. I’m a bit of a perfectionist in most things I do and cooking certainly isn’t an exception. I want things to come out “just so” and I hate when a recipe fails but even more when something I make […]

[singlepic id=206 w=320 h=240 float=right] I’ve gotten an insane number of jalapenos in my CSA box over the course of the last couple weeks. Nearly a dozen and a half. I used some for salsa but I needed a more effective way to use them up. So I decide to make Jalapeno poppers based on […]

This week I got my husband to take me to one of my favorite places for lunch. Tookie’s which specializes in burgers has been a Clear Lake institution since the 1970s. It suffered a fairly long hiatus after hurricane Ike in September 2008. [singlepic id=132 w=400 h=300 float=left] The building severely flooded and the cost […]