Category Archives: Recipes
Green Chili Chicken and Lime Stew
Fiesta in San Antonio is coming up, and I’ve had a taste for Mexican food lately. I seem to either crave Asian food or Tex-Mex, and I think I’m on the Tex-Mex rotation right now. I like the combination of … Continue reading
Chiang Mai Curry Noodle Soup
That’s what this is called on the website where I got the recipe, but I’m not sure I would call it a soup. I didn’t include a lot of liquid in my bowl when I ate it and it was … Continue reading
Dragon Noodles
I am more than a little in love with these noodles. I found the recipe while drifting around in Pinterest, an activity that I seem to spend entirely too much time at. The recipe is at a blog called Budget … Continue reading
Homemade Dog Treats
My Australian Shepherd Poe and I have a dog show tomorrow and the next day. We do obedience competition, and he’s working on his Companion Dog title. He only needs to qualify, or get a passing score on all the … Continue reading
The easiest soup in the world: Hungarian Cream of Green
Today was a soup day. It was overcast, and chilly–at least as chilly as Texas gets this time of year. I was baking all day, and I wanted to make something warm but above all easy for my dinner. So … Continue reading
A simple dessert and an unexpected meal
One of the things I’m enjoying about my retirement, where cooking is concerned, is the freedom to find things–seasonal and fresh–at the grocery store or the market and then come home and think of yummy things to do with them. … Continue reading
Kung Pao Chicken
I absolutely adore Kung Pao Chicken. And once you’ve shopped at the Asian market for a few items, like bean sauce, the dish is ridiculously easy to put together. This was lunch today. I’m not sure why I don’t make … Continue reading
Salads
Okay, enough with all the baking. It was actually fun, and I think I am coming to enjoy it a lot more than I used to, but my body and my busy little cooking hands are craving some good savory, … Continue reading
More Baking
For someone who doesn’t like to bake as much as she likes to cook, I’m doing an awful lot of baking. The first order of business today was to test out some little tartlets that are on the tentative menu … Continue reading
Bakey Day
Today was bake-y. I don’t like to bake as well as I like to cook, and I’m not as good at it. However, a friend asked me to make my banana cake for her Yom Kippur celebration, so I figured … Continue reading
