Last year's impromptu Leftover Turkey Pot Pie was such a success, I looked forward to trying a different version of it this year. Chris wanted peas and potatoes, I compromised and did add frozen peas and used cream of potato soup. That's the other change--last year I didn't have fresh mushrooms, but this year I bought some baby portobellos especially for the recipe experiment, so the cream of po...
Okay, here is another partly-improvised recipe from yours truly. I tried to use ingredients we had that needed using, including some Isernios Mild Italian Sausages (LOVE!) and the last of the tomatoes from our garden which had ripened on the window sill. Knowing Chris hates tomatoes, I had to find a way to incorporate them without being too tomato-y, so I decided on a rose sauce.
Penne with Sau...
I just improvised an amazingly delicious fall soup using ingredients I had around the house. Yes, I almost always have a butternut squash around the house this time of year. It keeps a good long time and I love cooking with butternut squash (My fave other than soups? Jaime Oliver's butternut squash muffins with lemon sour cream frosting. OH YUM!). Anyhoot, I knew I wanted to use our garam masal...
Daily Gratitude #3 - I am grateful for my
brain. I am grateful for the capacity to reason, consider, dream... I
love that my brain was trained (by my family, my teachers, my friends)
to be used as a tool for good work in my life, and that those elders and
colleagues encouraged me to question any "truth" I was given to find
the answers for myself. Never has the value of this cognitive power ...
I love to eat basil, so I grow a lot of basil in the garden. I am considering expanding still more next year--I cook with it, I make basil-lemonade with it, and I just love rubbing my fingers in it and sniff the amazing scent all day. Mmm. Winter comes wet and cold here in Seattle, which basil hates, so when the end of the harvest comes, it's time to make use of what's left before it yellows a...
As a kid who great up the daughter of a commercial pilot, we flew standby all my life. That meant often times you would be waiting for a seat on a plane, and you would get "bumped"--meaning people with more seniority or paying passengers took the seat you would have gotten had it been empty. But your luggage still goes on that flight without you. And sometimes you got bumped for a day or two. I re...
I had this elaborate movie-dream (I dream movie scripts all the time), where people are at an outdoor concert and they see the sky light up with what looks like dozens and dozens of sonic booms high in the atmosphere. They are marveling at all this, when a space ship (kinda Millenium Falcon-ish looking, but smaller) lands under a bridge nearby. When they show up, the ship has turned into an 80's s...
1 spaghetti squash 2.5-3lbs
1 lb chanterelles
5 Tbsp butter
3 garlic cloves, minced
3/4 cup cream + 1/4 cup milk (or 1 cup 1/2 n 1/2)
1/4 cup grated parmesan
salt and pepper
You can prepare the spaghetti squash ahead of time if you like. There are two methods that work great:
Microwave method:
Poke the skin of the squash a dozen times, place in a microwave safe dish. Microwave 6 minutes, then...
I posted this on my Livejournal ages ago (Aug 2007), and in coming across it today, I decided to pop it on over here on my Adventures blog. It was obviously when I was mid-planning a Disney trip, and refers to discussions on a forum I am a part of. But it applies to serving staff in any restaurant in the US:
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So there is a small faction of people on one of the Disney d...
I haven't been writing over here as often as I used to. I have been writing a lot for my Deep Roots Dance blog, and also developed and am writing for NWBellydance.com, aall while working on the re-design of MyCatHatesYou.com (coming soon), and filming and editing a video project Shit Tribal Bellydancers Say and a Kickstarter campaign for Helene Eriksen. Whew! It's been a good kind of busy. Add to ...
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