Category Archives: Recipes

Beat the Clock Beer Bread

Beat the Clock Beer Bread

Now, if you’re able to raise your head up from your half-drunk (the beer, not you) pint well enough that you think you can still muster a boiled dinner, you’ll be needin’ some bread to sop up some of that there ale you’ve been a-swillin’. Fear not, for even a well-sauced boozebag can handle thisContinue Reading

A Boiled Dinner Pact

A Boiled Dinner Pact

Though the boiled dinner is scrumptious and simple, it is always relegated to Saint Patrick’s Day (or the weekend nearest to Saint Patrick’s Day) at my house, and that is its lone serving time for the entire calendar year. Last night, as I was cleaning up from our corned beef and cabbage extravaganza, JR said,Continue Reading

Chocolate Souffle Waits for No One

Chocolate Souffle Waits for No One

If you have been following my recent posts, you are probably all too aware that I have an abundance of eggs from the scared-into-laying-by-threat-of-death-chickens who reside in a palatial chicken mansion at my house. Hence, I am trying to prepare those eggs in all of the one hundred ways allegedly symbolized by the creases inContinue Reading

Centered on Eggs

Centered on Eggs

In celebration of our chickens successfully overcoming their egg-laying drought, I will be focused on eggs and egg recipes for at least a day or two. Or until I can actually feel my cholesterol rising, whichever comes first. Now that the threat of death, or perhaps just the threat of hypnosis, has borne of itsContinue Reading

Hoisin + Pork = Yum.

Hoisin + Pork = Yum.

I didn’t have a pig upon whom I could apply lipstick, and, truth be told, country style spare ribs are slightly difficult to make look beautiful, so, instead, I chose to illustrate today’s post with this shot I took of tulips that my friends Tara and Tommy gave me this past weekend. Aren’t they pretty?Continue Reading