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Good Eats Episodes 4, 5 and 28
Having not touched the book for a few months, I got back to it on Saturday night. I made our entire dinner from the Good Eats book. Unfortunately that wasn’t an easy task since a lot of the recipes call for different cooking temperatures or methods but I ended up coming up with a combination [...]
Bourbon Brown Sugar Glazed Ham
Enough of the depressing stuff; here is the seriously awesome ham that I made for our Easter Dinner for two.
1/2 fully cooked smoked bone-in ham, not spiral cut (about 10 pounds)
1-1/2 cups packed brown sugar
3/4 cup dijon mustard
6 tablespoons bourbon
Trim all but 1/4 inch of fat from the ham, and score remaining fat in a [...]
Real-time Thanksgiving… Almost
I brined my turkey overnight and got up at 1:30am to turn it over (have to make sure everything is brined evenly!), then got up at 6:00am to start cooking the feast. I took the turkey out of the brine and patted it dry, then seasoned the cavity with salt, pepper and dried thyme, and [...]
$5 Dinner: Chicken Piccata
Chicken Piccata for under $5 per serving? Yeah… seriously.
The Chicken Piccata itself is $1.79 per serving. With alfredo pasta, green beans, and a roll, this entire meal is still only $2.60 per serving. For about $.75 more, you could add a salad too (a bag of salad mix and a bottle of dressing — no [...]
How does my AEROGARDEN grow?
My aunt gave me an Aerogarden for Christmas. Laugh if you want — this thing actually works. The first batch of herbs didn’t go so well. They started off great, but then their growth was very stunted and the leaves turned yellow. Some digging around on the internet turned up the answer: well water doesn’t [...]
My First Nesco Roaster Experience
I mentioned on my last post that John bought me an 18-quart Nesco Roaster, just because. It arrived yesterday, and this morning I did the “smoke out.” When you first recieve the roaster, you have to clean it and then run it on the highest setting to condition it. It will smoke and create nasty [...]
Let it Snow!
I finished our Christmas shopping today. The lines were awful and it was taking waaaay longer than I ever expected, but as I walked out of the next-to-last store it started snowing. I didn’t even know it was supposed to snow. It’s sticking, enough so that I slid and almost missed one of my turns [...]
