Archive for the ‘Cooking’ Category
Open Thread: Thursday Recipe Exchange – Slow Cookers
From our Food Goddess, TaMara: Years ago, when I was first learning to ski, I was very frustrated by the amount of time I spent on my ass and not skiing. Someone told me that if I wasn’t spending a lot of time picking myself up, I wasn’t really skiing. I needed to push my [...]
February 9, 2012
· 
Anne Laurie · 
94 Comments
Posted in: Cooking, Crock Pot Craziness, Open Thread
Open Thread: Thursday Night Recipe Exchange – Super Bowl
From our Food Goddess, TaMara: It’s that time again. Super Bowl Sunday, when you sit down to stuff your face with favorite snack foods, drink beer and watch the Super Bowl Commercials. I think there is some football in there somewhere. What’s on your Super Bowl party menu? Do you make your own snacks or [...]
February 2, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 30 Comments
Posted in: Cooking, Open Thread
Open Thread: Thursday Night Recipe Exchange – Spinach
(JeffreyW via Whats4dinnersolutions.com) From TaMara, Recipe Goddess: I thought last week went really well. Thanks for playing along. This week we delve into spinach recipes. I used to hate spinach. This is probably because I am a child of the 70′s and the only spinach I ever saw was canned or frozen, with the consistency [...]
January 26, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 51 Comments
Posted in: Cooking, Open Thread
Thursday Night Recipe Exchange
(Photo from JeffreyW’s mouth watering collection) New weekly feature—assuming y’all respond as you should. Welcome back to TaMara, Recipe Goddess of What’s 4 Dinner Solutions: Aloha Balloon-Juicers. I’m back. I wish I could say I was back from a long trip abroad, but no, life has just been very busy. That has not changed, but [...]
January 19, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 63 Comments
Posted in: Cooking, Readership Capture
“The Consequences of Cooking”: Small Steps, Big Improvements
There’s some stories that got overlooked last week, what with the holiday fooferaw. Since the endless labors of billions of women and children to provide cooked food fall into the ‘Vagina Outrage’ category for me, I was interested to read Jonathan Alter at the Washington Monthly on “Toxic Dinner“: The consequences of cooking may be [...]
November 28, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 19 Comments
Posted in: Cooking, Science and Technology
Homemade Pasta
Going to be experimenting with this the next couple weeks while I have some time. I’m trying to think of ingredients that would be easy to add to the pasta. Basil is an obvious choice, but what else would you recommend? When in the process do you add it? After flour, pre-egg? How much does [...]
June 13, 2011
· John Cole · 91 Comments
Posted in: Cooking, Open Thread
Cooking Question
I have about a dozen or so people coming over tomorrow for dinner. I’m making a spinach lasagne (I’m doing that as we speak and then cooking it tomorrow), hot sausage sandwiches, a hearty tossed salad, then a nice fruit salad with strawberries, papaya, pineapple, blackberries, bananas, blueberries, etc. However, it feels like I am [...]
May 6, 2011
· John Cole · 113 Comments
Posted in: Cooking
Open Thread: Thursday Night Menu
From our Food Goddess, TaMara: I have some good news and some bad news. Tonight marks our last Thursday Night Menu. That’s the bad news. The good news is I’ll still be food blogging and I’ll still occasionally post full menus. I have at least a dozen recipes in the queue that I want to [...]
March 31, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 38 Comments
Posted in: Cooking, Open Thread
Open Thread: Thursday Night Menu
From our Food Goddess, TaMara: As the weather warms up I find myself wandering the grocery aisles looking for fresh foods to cook with, not wanting any more root vegetables or winter squash. It can be challenging because I want fresh – not shipped from a thousand miles fresh. But I settle for what I [...]
March 25, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 38 Comments
Posted in: Cooking, Open Thread
Open Thread: Thursday Night Menu
Via our Food Maven, TaMara: It’s that time of year when we are getting our gardens ready for the spring planting. The garden shops beckon, the seed catalogs tantalize and black dirt looks inviting. JeffW is taking stock of his root cellar to see what he needs to plant this year, I’m hoping for a [...]
March 17, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 15 Comments
Posted in: Cooking, Open Thread
Open Thread: Thursday Night Menu
From our Food Maven, TaMara: I’m anxiously waiting for Daylight Savings Time. I hate losing the hour of sleep, but love the opportunity to ride every evening. Yesterday was a challenge as I battled unexpected headwinds and 20 mile gusts. I felt like Almira Gulch in the tornado. One of the guys was stuck in [...]
March 10, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 140 Comments
Posted in: Cooking, Open Thread
Open Thread: Thursday Night Menu
From our Food Goddess, TaMara: I’m always looking for something different to do with pasta that is flavorful and moves away from the traditional tomato based sauces of my childhood. Tonight’s main course is just that. Butternut squash with a bit of heat and a bit of sweet, all brought together by smoky bacon and [...]
March 3, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 8 Comments
Posted in: Cooking, Open Thread
Open Thread: Thursday Night Menu
From our Food Goddess, TaMara: Have been under the weather with a pesky cold all week. Too much travel, not enough rest and exercise. Lots of homemade soups, though, so there is an upside. Tonight is about recipes that have a bit more flair to them, but are still simple to prepare. If you’re not [...]
February 24, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 11 Comments
Posted in: Cooking, Open Thread
Open Thread: Thursday Night Menu
From our Food Goddess, TaMara: I’m still getting my feet under me after being in the Boston area for a week, it is amazing how much stuff can accumulate when you are gone. I haven’t even had time to go near the kitchen and cook anything beyond the basics, very happy to come home to [...]
February 17, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 60 Comments
Posted in: Cooking, Open Thread
Open Thread: Thursday Night Menu
From our Food Goddess, TaMara: Tonight is all about comfort foods. Most of us are in the midst of a cold snap (and those of you who aren’t, don’t gloat, lest we descend upon you and stay until late spring) and the only way to get through it is to hunker down with some hot [...]
February 3, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 43 Comments
Posted in: Cooking, Open Thread
