So, we still are getting some cold weather. (I snowed a bit the last couple days in North Carolina–silly groundhog and his silly shadow. I wonder why we get our meteorological advice from a rodent in this day and age.) My potage ran out as did my simpler butternut squash soup. I needed more soup [...]
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I recently revisited my butternut squash soup with a much simpler take on it. I was pleased the original, but it did have a lot of ingredients and was a little involved to make. The French just seem to have a knack making soups. One of my favorites is a potage; It’s a type of thick vegetable soup that loosely translates to “it’s cold outside and I want a good soup to warm me up.” Alright, no, it doesn’t translate to that at all. But that’s how I remember [...] After a holiday potluck, I had quite a bit of baked macaroni and cheese left over. Rather than reheat this in the microwave, I decided to follow in the footsteps of any good state fair: Fry it.
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That was my Thanksgiving dinner. Not very traditional is it? Do you ever feel like you should do something productive with your leftover turkey parts? I have always liked to get as much usage out of a piece of meat as I can, so I was very excited about this recipe when I came across it. The recipe starts with turkey stock, which is an [...] Cranberry and turkey. How classic. How traditional. How expected. How not what I wanted.
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A friend recently asked me what was the easiest way to prepare butternut squash. Appropriately enough, I had just roast some earlier that week. It wasn’t anything fancy and I didn’t originally have any intention to post my roasted butternut squash because there is no real recipe but my friend’s question did made me realize [...] Kyle’s Potato and Mushroom Gratin got me thinking about the classic French scalloped potato dish, the Gratin Dauphinois. This gratin strips the dish to its core ingredients; it’s all about the cream and potatoes. No cheese, mushrooms, onions or other additions are allowed.
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Alton Brown’s first show was about steak, so naturally the next episode, “This Spud’s for You”, was about potatoes. There are so many different options when cooking potatoes. I have already covered oven fries, and William has already covered chips, microwave chips and fries. For a slightly different dish I decided to follow AB’s Potato/Portabello [...]
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