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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 [...]
Thanksgiving for a Tiny Crowd
If you’re reading this, you’re either a regular visitor of my blog or Google sent you here to learn how to cook a turkey. You’re in the right place — read on.
The local grocery stores were having huge sales on leftover turkey. Food Lion was selling turkey breasts for 75% off, so I picked up [...]
Buffalo Wings
5 pounds chicken wings
1 bottle Frank’s Red Hot Buffalo Wing Sauce
2 quarts peanut oil, for frying
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons cornstarch
4 stalks celery, cut into thin sticks
2 large carrots, peeled and cut into thin sticks
Blue Cheese Dressing
1. Remove wingtips and separate remaining wings into two pieces each.
2. Heat oven [...]
Blue Cheese Dressing
5 ounces crumbled blue cheese
6 tablespoons buttermilk
6 tablespoons sour cream
4 tablespoons mayonnaise
4 teaspoons rice wine vinegar
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon garlic salt
ground black pepper, to taste
1. Mash blue cheese and buttermilk in small bowl with fork until mixture resembles cottage cheese with small curds. Stir in sour cream, mayonnaise, vinegar, sugar, and garlic salt. Season to [...]
Kielbasa over Pasta w/ Fake Vodka Sauce
A spicy twist on plain-jane pasta. Vodka sauce is typically a creamy tomato sauce with about a cup of vodka added. The vodka gives depth to the acidity of the tomato sauce. This recipe is based on a cream sauce without vodka, but uses red pepper flakes to add the missing flavor depth.
1 pound kielbasa
8 [...]
Flourless Chocolate Cake
This is a wonderful (and very fudgy) cake. I use Green & Blacks chocolate bars, but you can use any bar that’s at least 70% cocao. Serve warm with whipped cream and berries.
Ingredients
3 bars Green & Blacks 70% Cocao chocolate bars
12 tablespoons butter
1 cup superfine sugar (put granulated sugar in the food processor; superfine sugar [...]
