Remember the blueberry muffins post from Christmas? And the more recent one about hot dogs, baked beans, and brown bread? Well, my inner Mainer seems to be back. I wanted blueberries, and blueberries were on sale at the grocery store 4 pints for $5. It was fate. I also wanted to try a smoothie. I [...]
Archive for June, 2010
Blueberry Cinnamon Smoothie
Posted in @home, liquid refreshment, tagged fruit on June 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Mom’s Slow Cook Barbeque Pork
Posted in @home, tagged main dish, pork on June 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Do you have a crock pot or slow cooker? Do you like barbeque? Do you like pork? Then chances are you will like this recipe, especially in the summer when it is too hot to stand over a stovetop or let the oven run too long. Just get through the parboiling early in the day, [...]
Crispy Tilapia
Posted in @home, tagged fish, main dish, temp-tations, veggies on June 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s summer by the seaside… Time for some lightly dressed up fish with plenty of summer veggies. This one wins “Willing to Make Again” and “Good Dish To Make For Company” status. There isn’t a lot of prep work and it’s easy to put together. It doesn’t need much to round it out as a [...]
Lamb in Red Currant Jelly Sauce
Posted in @home, tagged lamb, main dish, Nigella, Nigella Express on June 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Another Nigella Lawson gem, this time for a snappy dinner party entree out of Express. It’s in the section entitled “Quick Quick Slow,” and boy is it ever. The recipe recommends serving the lamb with beans, but we substituted the beans out for a forbidden rice-and-vegetable cold salad that was not too shabby. This recipe [...]
Crab-Caper Dip
Posted in @home, tagged Better Homes & Gardens Hometown Potluck Favorites, dip, fish, party on June 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ll bet that not a lot of people out there know whether they like capers, or not. I’m not exactly sure myself what a caper is. Let’s see… “A caper (Capparis spinosa L.) is a perennial spiny bush that bears rounded, fleshy leaves and big white to pinkish-white flowers. A caper is also the pickled bud of [...]
Daring Kitchen Here I Come!
Posted in Daring Kitchen, tagged daring cooks on June 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
If you haven’t heard about this yet, bakers and chefs, then you can thank me for this later. The Daring Kitchen is an online community of Daring Bakers and Daring Cooks who participate in one community-wide recipe challenge every month. It’s all about developing your skills and breaking down the barriers in your kitchen, and [...]
The Seaside Eatery is expanding!
Posted in @home, tagged Going to the Dogs on June 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Beginning in August or September of 2010, be on the lookout for a new category of recipes called “Going to the Dogs.” The Seaside Eatery will be getting a new customer, of the four-legged variety, and we’re looking forward to making her all sorts of tasty, homemade cookies.
Carrot Cake
Posted in @home, tagged Better Homes & Gardens Hometown Potluck Favorites, dessert, party on June 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Seized by the desire to make a carrot cake, I found myself confronted with multiple recipes. Some recipes called for whipped egg whites to be folded in to the batter, but after my encounter with whipped egg whites in the lemon meringue pie, I decided that was too much trouble. So I turned to my [...]
Kiwi Clerico
Posted in @home, fun, liquid refreshment, tagged party on June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sangria, in Spanish, means bloodletting, and the usual red wine base for this steeped-fruit wine punch makes the name of the drink pretty obvious and a propos. But I’m partial to white wine, and so white wine sangria, or sangria blanco, was much more up my alley for a recent dinner party. In Argentina sangria [...]
In Which My Inner Mainer Briefly Takes Over the Kitchen
Posted in thoughts on June 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Maybe it was a form of culinary backlash from spending the long holiday weekend in Pennsylvania, where I wrestled with all sorts of strange, Pennsylvanian eating habits: sauerkraut, three bean salad, a weird steak sauce that seemed more like A1 and teriyaki sauce had offspring, potato rolls, dried chipped beef, cheesesteaks, and do-not-let-us-forget apple, cherry, [...]
