“Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives.”
— Alice Waters
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Weekend Recipes 1/8/2021
It’s Friday. Finally. This week was long for me. I’m not really sure why. But at least now I can look forward to the weekend ahead and spending some time in the kitchen. Over the last week I’ve taken some organizing and planning steps to help me stay more on track with the blog and cooking/baking. Now it’s time to put them into practice!
Continue reading “Weekend Recipes 1/8/2021”“Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.”
— Truman Capote
Cold Days Are For Soups
Over the weekend, my house was filled with soups.
On Friday, I decided to make a recipe out of the cookbook I will be reviewing this week: The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook. The review comes out on Thursday, so stay tuned! Since the weather turned back to more seasonably cold temperatures, I figured a soup recipe was in the cards.
So, I decided to make Butternut Squash Soup, North Africa Style.
Continue reading “Cold Days Are For Soups”What’s the Deal With Liver?
For a while now this question has been spinning around in my mind: What’s the deal with liver?
It seems to be a pretty commonly featured dish in cookbooks, often in the appetizer section. Julia Child adored liver and Ina Garten touts its fame as well. Me, however? I don’t see the hype. I am a meat eater — for now — but the idea of eating an organ from an animal has always put me off. I’ve never tried liver pâté and I’m really in no rush to do so.
I will admit that when I decided to cook my way through Ina’s cookbooks, the liver recipes always made me a bit queasy. They weren’t the only ones, either. The mussels and clams on the half-shell also turned my face green.
While the focus of the blog has changed slightly to be more inclusive, that doesn’t mean that the cooking-through-Ina-thing is going away. So, I guess eventually, I’ll have to try liver pâté or any other dish Ina decided to include this gross ingredient. Maybe I’ll make it as an appetizer….
Photo credit: emerils.com
I tried to find the most appetizing photo for this. Was I successful?
What are your thoughts on liver? Have you tried it? Is it worth it? Let me know!
“Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.”
— Julia Child
Hello and Welcome!
Hi there!
My name is Ryan and I have decided to go on a food journey.
“A food journey?” you ask. What kind of food journey?
Well….
Continue reading “Hello and Welcome!”New Year’s Cooking
Now that the major holidays are behind us — at least for my family — I can focus on getting back into the swing of cooking Ina recipes each week.
Even though New Year’s is this week, my family was never really “big” on doing anything for the New Year. In normal times, we would go to my aunt and uncle’s house New Year’s Day, but that isn’t happening this year.
So, I decided I will cook something for them…but now what remains is the blog-age-old question:
What shall I make?
Christmas Recipes
Hello Readers!
I just wanted to make a quick post to tell you all that I will be making a Yule Log cake later this week for Christmas. This is something I’ve always wanted to make, but have been too intimidated by the thought of it to actually do it. However, due to the pandemic and spending more time in the kitchen, I now feel I am confident enough to do it!
I found a wonderful recipe that can actually be completed over a couple days. So, I will be making the cake and filling it on Wednesday. I will cover it with ganache and make some of the decorations on Thursday and then assemble everything for presentation Friday afternoon.
Stay tuned for pictures and updates!
Cooking This Weekend
The weekend is already upon us! Well, mine is at least — since I don’t work on Fridays.
I will not be cooking tomorrow, Friday, but I do plan to cook on Saturday. But, as usual, I do not know what that will be just yet. I will most likely cook something for dinner, so I may do a full Ina-themed meal and knocked out two or three recipes in one go. That would be an ideal, but I’m not sure if it will happen.
I guess a good place to start would be with the main dish, right?
Once I know what that will be, deciding on the sides will be much easier.
I’m still hoping to do a Night of Appetizers at some point, which will help me tackle the many of the recipes that I’ve been neglecting. But there are soo many good ones in there!
One day, one recipe at a time, right??
