Julie | January 29, 2007
Well, hopefully, like other things, butterflying a chicken gets easier with practice. I’ve never done it before and was mildly traumatized by the experience, but only because I am a delicate flower. I ended up taking care of the back—very onerously with my kitchen shears, wondering if I was cutting in the wrong places, because [...]
Julie | January 25, 2007
Jeremy hasn’t had much free time for breadbaking since he went back to work at Willamette, and boy, do I miss it. You’d think this would encourage me to do more baking of my own, but I am still concentrating on improving my cooking skills, so that means baking of all sorts—yeast breads and quick [...]
Julie | January 19, 2007
This was the second time we’ve made these pork chops and they are really luscious. They do best with bone-in chops, as those stay moist longer than the boneless ones. We’ve served this with a wild rice-lentil blend and with egg noodles. Braised Pork Chops with Tomatoes, Cream, and Porcini Mushrooms 1/4 C olive oil [...]
Julie | January 18, 2007
I served this quick meal last night after an impromptu trip to the grocery store. The idea of sausages and grapes together was putting Jeremy off, but he agreed to give it a try. It was extremely easy to make, though it dirtied quite a few dishes. We served it with steamed broccoli and fresh [...]
Julie | January 15, 2007
This was the first real ice cream we made in our new Kitchen Aid Ice Cream Maker attachment. We used Dagoba bittersweet baking chocolate drops that Paul gave us for Christmas, and they proved wonderful for this. The custard really came out custardy; we could have eaten it like pudding. Actually, even after freezing in [...]
Julie | January 7, 2007
This was a very quick, simple, and tasty pasta dish. I chose it mostly to compliment some walnut bread Jeremy made, but we were pleasantly surprised by the flavor of the pasta. If it weren’t for all the cream, this would be a perfect simple meal that just takes a few minutes to prepare, literally [...]
Julie | January 6, 2007
I finally ventured away from our house salad, and have started looking around for other potential salad dressings. I hit on this one because I was planning on making a chicken dish for dinner with cherry-marsala sauce, and wanted something to complement that. As it turned out, the salad had so much more flavor than [...]
Julie | January 5, 2007
I made this to use up some whole milk before heading out to Denver for Christmas; I think I may have supplemented the whole with some 1%. I used Ghirardelli bittersweet chocolate chips for the chocolate, and the pudding came out really decadent and lovely. We ate some warm, when it was like a very [...]
Julie | January 2, 2007
We made some lovely meals over the course of our trip to Colorado, including both old standbys and some new recipes on the menu. I didn’t write everything down, but here are a few mentionables: • Our favorite pork loin with leeks from Cooking Light: We’ve made this many times and it came out great, [...]
