Dear Readers,
www.cooking.com has knives on sale this weekend on their site. The best set to recommend for beginners is the Cutlery Starter Set from Henckels Four Star. Down from $241 to $120.50, this set includes a 4″ paring knife, a 6″ utility knife, 8″ chef’s knife and 9″ sharpening steel.
A bargain, in my view. Hey, I don’t make anything on this, just showing you the lay of the land.
Keep cooking! Dee
Categories: Cooking Utensils · Uncategorized
Boursin (recipe in Down On The Farm)
Sausage Pastries (see recipe)
Spicy Almonds and Cashews (asked publisher for right to publish on blog)
Blue Corn Chips with Peach-Pineapple Salsa
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Mesquite-Smoked Brisket (store-bought, frozen. Thaw overnight and heat in oven)
Asian Chicken Wings
Festive Cole Slaw, with red cabbage
Baked Beans with Bacon and Cheddar Cheese
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Sodas, fizzy water, still water, beer, wine or Sangria
Fresh Fruit
Mom’s Blueberry Sauce (if I have time to make it)
Note: I wanted to make Susan’s (see comments) pork butt, however would like to test it on my resident guinea pig(s) Jim and Zoe, or Jim’s parents – they’re cool with my test cooking – before serving it to guests. That is a good tip for all cooks. You don’t want to be standing there sweating over an overly complicated recipe with your guests five minutes away.
Categories: Recipe Ideas
Barefoot contessa
didn’t fit in the poem
love the name, your work
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I’d like to also send a thanks to Mr. Calvin Trillin for many years of intelligent, funny and easily read works. Check out the Tummy Trilogy! Here’s to Alice’s law of compensatory cash flow, Arthur Bryant’s and your beloved Principessa.
Categories: Editorial · haiku
Tagged: calvin trillin
Yumm-o and te hee hee
Must be Rachel Ray
Couple this with Sandra Lee
It’s not a good cook’s day
Now the boob girl
Can cook Italian
We all love Giada
But also love manly
Tyler for his Ultimate
And other shows too
Alton because he
Lets my physics guru
Learn what’s behind cooking
He thinks cooking is science
I know it’s about art
Heart and soul and friends.
That is why we married
To have two opposites
Meet, attract and Alton,
You know what’s next.
We get a dog
And a loft
And that’s my blog
Don’t get soft
Or teary on me.
D
Note: I did not name the boob girl. Blame that on another. LS this is for you!
Categories: Editorial
One piece of mail got waylaid today, and a neighbor was kind enough to leave it at our door. A very kind gesture because the outside of the envelope said two words, Leonardo DiCaprio.
Yep, we go way back. Friends forever. And he and our mutual friends at Natural Resources Defense Council want help saving polar bears. Who doesn’t want to save a polar bear?
I don’t argue with the cause, just this mass marketing frenzy that attaches causes to stars and thinks you’ll give money to the cause because Leonardo DiCaprio’s name is on the envelope and photo is on “his” letter.
Normally someone would have thrown this mail away, but because it was in the name of Leonardo DiCaprio, they brought it to my door.
It’s the middle of the night and I’ve had the thing for 8 hours. Can’t sleep so I checked our blog (yours and mine) and opened it knowing it was direct mail. Searching close by for inspiration. And here it is on a platter.
Personally, I can’t imagine a world without polar bears. We were members of the San Diego Zoo and went regularly, to see the gorillas and polar bears. We looked for weekends when they dumped in snow for the polar bears, or gave them huge blocks of ice with a fresh fish inside.
I’d like to think that everyone had a worthy charitable cause at hand and knew their cause and finances and gave accordingly. When Princess Diana died her family asked that people give to the causes that were important to them. What did people do? They sent it to her charity instead of the local Boys and Girls Club or organization that helps house families of desperately ill children.
Save a tree. NRDC should know this and not send out celebrity mailings. And we should know that when we have a few dollars extra we should research and know where to send it, where it will do the most good. Whether it’s polar bears, ecology, cancer research, theatre, whatever your passion – find a worthy 501(c)(3) and donate. You’ll feel better as you’ve done a good and responsible thing.
Categories: Editorial
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