Cookbooks, Restaurants and Everything in Between
Preparing myself for the Valentine weekend with Nick and then one more week of work before I take a week off to finally do some proper job searching because I really have to find another job….ASAP!
Along with that I will also get my blog transferred over to a self-hosted site, so I’m excited about finally getting that done and pray I can do it without too much trouble. Continue reading “Finding Myself, While Cooking Like Mom”
After two failed recipe attempts over the past couple of weeks, I don’t know what happened, they started off as good ideas but they fell a little short of what I was aiming for.
The first recipe I wanted to make was to use up a half bottle of champagne; I was thinking to cook the chicken in it with some lemon and capers. Well the taste was ok but the look wasn’t what I was going for, so I’m thinking when I try this one again I will use the champagne as a sauce to serve over the chicken. Continue reading “A Few Kitchen Fails and Bacon Fat Gingersnaps!”
When the weather starts to cool down in Kansas City, my thoughts turn to hot soups, chili and wonderful dishes I can make in the oven.
One of my favorite soups to make is Chicken Noodle, just like my mom used to make, plain and simple with nothing in it but noodles, chicken, onions and peppers. Whenever I make this soup it always makes me think of mom.
So this past weekend I decided to make a big pot of Chicken noodle soup since I had some leftover chicken in the freezer that I had roasted the week before and figured it would be a good way to use it up.
I used my mom’s recipe up to a point and just threw in some other things that I had laying around and turned it into an amazing creamy soup, this one I will have to make again and try different greens to see how the flavors turn out. Continue reading “Not My Mammas Chicken Noodle Soup!”
Here I was standing in the middle of my cooking area holding in my hand once again a heavy bar of expensive dark chocolate that my wonderful, handsome sometimes-clueless boyfriend gave to me for some reason, wondering one more time what the heck was I going to do with it as I stuck it back in the fridge to live another day.
This chocolate bar has been the running joke in the house for the past three months, because we were all dumbfounded when this sweet man brought it home to me. Don’t get me wrong I love chocolate and I love that he surprises me with special treats, but Sheesh! This was one heck of an expensive bar of chocolate not to mention it weighed two pounds, so it’s not something one can eat in one sitting. Continue reading “Chocolate Truffle Time”
Life Food and Me 