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Good Food, Good Fun, Well DoneGood Food, Good Fun, Well DoneA Blog for Foodies by a food writer. This Blog covers recipes, cooking techniques, and food tidbits of interest perhaps only to the author.
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Pumpkin? But Not Pie
2008-11-05 04:38:00 One of my Tweeps, Felicia Slattery, responded to one of my pleas for inspiration with the suggestion of talking about what you can do with pumpkin other than make pie. Since the appearance of pumpkin en masse in grocery stores, I’ve taken an interest in this myself (see my recipe for Pumpkin Baingan Bharta) and ...
The $7 Dinner Challenge Part 3
2008-11-04 02:43:00 Okay, here is big entry number three in Cate and Sarah?s $7 Dinner Challenge . If you have not heard of the $7 Dinner Challenge, these two amazingly talented food bloggers have challenged the rest of us still pretty talented food bloggers to create a two-course meal for four including a full serving of vegetables for just ... More About: Part , Part 3
Recipe: Deviled Eggs Just in Time for Halloween
2008-10-31 06:57:00 Yes, Halloween is upon us and what better dish to serve than deviled eggs? Everyone loves deviled eggs, they are great at parties and they are easy to make. OK, I must admit the idea of serving deviled eggs actually came my friend Skyle who told me she makes them into scary Halloween ghosts and serves ... More About: Recipe , Eggs , Time , Just in time
A Sweet Red: Charlemagne
2008-10-30 03:10:00 So in my post Watermelon Wine, I had mentioned that while I had been less than enthusied by the watermelon wine, I had not come away empty handed from Davenport Orchards & Winery on Sunday. That’s because I found a new sweet red: Charlemagne. I had to try more than one wine. Far be it from ... More About: Sweet
The $7 Dinner Challenge Part 2
2008-10-28 04:31:00 Okay, here is my second entry in Cate and Sarah’s $7 Dinner Challenge . If you have not heard of the $7 Dinner Challenge, these two amazing food bloggers have challenged the rest of us to create a two-course meal for four including a full serving of vegetables for just $7 total. So for today: Pea and Potato Burritos With ... More About: Part
Watermelon Wine
2008-10-27 06:56:00 Today, I stopped by Davenport Orchards & Wine ry today to pick up a few bottles of locally produced wine. I owe a lot of Davenport. It is the first winery tour I ever took and strangely enough, I think I still have a bottle of apple wine I purchased that day. I can only imagine after ... More About: Watermelon
Fried Artichokes
2008-10-24 06:48:00 So at some urging from Judy, here is my recipe for fried artichokes, which was heavily inspired by the same dish at La Bodega in Kansas City, MO. It is the perfect combination of salt from the “ham” and sweet from the garlic vegannaise. Fried Artichokes 8 large artichokes 3 tablespoons corn starch 4 slices of tofurkey lunch meat ...
The $7 Challenge
2008-10-21 06:35:00 It’s hard economic times. American families are watching their food budgets shrink as the price of just about everything else explodes. As Americans struggle to find creative ways to stretch their food dollar, Cate and Sarah have issued the $7 Dinner Challenge to us food bloggers: face what so many other Americans must every day and ...
Happy World Bread Day!
2008-10-17 06:26:00 Did you know that today is World Bread Day, a celebration of a food that is eaten by nearly every culture in the world? To celebrate the day, I decided to do what I always do when confronted with difficult baking questions: ask my wife for help. She is the family baker and she pointed me towards ... More About: Happy
Pumpkin Baingan Bharta
2008-10-17 05:09:00 Baingan Bharta is my third favorite Indian dish (after the Rucci fry at Rucci in Overland Park, KS) and Cauliflower Manchurian, also known as the greatest meal ever. For those not familiar with the dish, baingan bharta is an eggplant curry made from ginger, garlic, chilies, and cilantro. But You Said Pumpkin That’s right. Baingan Bharta is ...
New URL
2008-05-02 07:53:00 That’s right… I went and did it. I bought http://www.blogwelldone.com. Please keep visiting me there!
New Vegan Blog
2008-05-01 07:38:00 Hi everyone, I have decided to go Vegan for 90 days and working out at least 5 times per week during that 90 day period. I am journeling my missteps, trials, tribulations, and hopefully successes at http://iamtheanimal.blogspot.com I will still be posting to this here blog, at least as much as I have done recently. ... More About: Blog
Musings On Meat
2008-04-03 06:46:00 So I was talking with my wife the other day about being vegetarian and whether we should attempt being vegan. I surprised myself. I have been really pondering why I don’t eat meat. At first, it was a health thing. Not so much that a meat free diet is healthier (it is, by the way) but ... More About: Meat , Musings
Donnor Party Special
2008-04-01 20:10:00 As befitting this special day, here’s a recipe I invented for special occasions. You will need: 4 tablespoons grapeseed oil 2 tablespoons butter 1 medium onion, thinly sliced 2 pounds of meat, deboned, dark meat preferred 8 cloves of garlic salt and pepper to taste Cover the meat liberally with salt and pepper. Over a medium fire, add the butter and half of the oil. When the ... More About: Party , Special
Howto: Buy a Knife
2008-03-28 06:33:00 A good knife is the most important tool in a cook’s arsenal. Other than proper use of salt and heat, nothing is more essential than the cook’s ability to break food down. If food is not trimmed of excess fat, it becomes a stringy mess; if it is not cut down to regular sized ... More About: Howto , Knife
Using Salt
2008-03-27 06:19:00 Using salt is one of the three most important skills in cooking, the other two being good knife skills and the proper use of heat. For many, hearing that salt is a basic cooking skill will come as a surprise. Given the linkage been salt and high blood pressure and other heart diseases, many home ... More About: Salt
Tag, We?re It
2008-03-18 05:23:00 Sue tagged me. And since hers is my favoritist blog ever, I decided I should respond in kind. No matter how long it took me. Rules: 1. Link to your tagger and post these rules. 2. Share 5 facts about yourself 3. Tag 5 people at the end of your post and list their names (linking ...
Stir Fry Seitan
2008-02-17 09:33:00 Part of my challenge with vegetarianism, especially as I head towards more strict vegetarianism, is getting protein. For the human body to function, even at rest, the USDA recommends 50g of protein per day. For those who do not eat meat, ingesting that much protein can be tough, especially when many vegetarian sources of protein ...
Cheap Entertaining or a Reasonable Facsimile Thereof
2008-02-13 05:57:00 This idea has really started to resonate with me. After a Christmas party that carried a nearly $20/head charge, the Super Bowl, and my birthday coming up, entertaining has just been on my mind. I try to stay away from entertaining as a topic here because there are many excellent blogs that cover it. However, I ... More About: Cheap , Entertaining
Keeping the Resolution: Oven Fries
2008-01-12 07:49:00 I try to cut fried foods out my diet when attempting to Keep my Resolution and lose weight. Despite the fact that there is something insanely delicious about food submerged in oil, it is not healthy. Yes, I realize that there are ways to make fried foods healthier but that does not mean that deep ... More About: Oven , Fries
Keeping the Resolution: Saute Without Oil
2008-01-10 05:13:00 This is a little trick I have used many times when trying to remove fats and oils from cooking healthy. Instead of sauteing in oil, many types of food can be sauted in broth or stock or soy sauce. The liquid, especially if it is contains a little bit of fat, will prevent the food from burning ... More About: Resolution
Keeping the Resolution: Mexican Lasagna
2008-01-08 20:46:00 This is something I cooked up last night as I stood before my pantry trying furiously to figure out what to serve the boy and I. At some level, I hate to even list it as a healthy recipe since it uses so many canned goods (high in sodium) but at the same time, it ... More About: Mexican , Resolution , Lasagna
Keeping the Resolution: Healthy Specials on Food Network
2008-01-07 18:33:00 (Sorry, this should have gone up Sunday night, but I had Internet woes…) I started watching a special on healthy recipes on the Food Network that aired last weekend that I got me thinking. It was a clip show taken from seven different shows that purported to offer healthy meals for the home cook. Unfortunately, I have to say that ... More About: Specials , Food Network , Healthy
Recipe: Fried Yucca
2007-12-18 20:34:00 I worked out how to make yucca fries from my friend John. It is really simple. Yucca Neutral oil for frying, canola is fine Salt Boil the yucca for 45 minutes or until starting to beccome fork tender Remove and slice the yucca into steak fry sized pieces, two inches by 1/2 inch by 1/2 inch. Deep fry in oil until ... More About: Recipe , Fried
El Rincon Columbian
2007-12-12 17:44:00 I went to my friend John’s wife’s birthday party at a resturant in Strawberry Hill called El Rincon Columbian, which translates to The Columbian Corner. We had a great time and the food was excellent. My wife ordered chicken in a Columbian sauce of chopped onions, tomatoes, and saffron for which I am going to find a recipe. ...
Game Dame?s Stuffed Mushrooms
2007-12-07 13:45:00 Game Dame sent me this recipe for stuffed mushrooms which is going into the cocktail party file, especially when I want to kill my guests by clogging their arteries! About 1.5 pint size fresh mushroom caps (small mushrooms are better than large ones), stemmed 1/2 cup of Parmesan cheese 8oz of Cream Cheese 1/2 lb of cooked bacon, crumbled 1 stick ... More About: Mushrooms , Game
Howto: Fix a Whole Dungeness Crab
2007-12-05 22:24:00 Over the weekend, I went to my local Whole Foods looking for new recipe ideas. As I was passing by the seafood department, I noticed that whole dungeness crabs were on sale for $9/lb. I had just watched an episode of Guy’s Big Bite on Food Network where host Guy Fieri had stir fried whole ... More About: Howto , Crab , Genes
Ethan?s Egg Recipe
2007-12-01 17:04:00 My son Ethan helped me make eggs this morning and this is his recipe: 6 eggs A good 2 second pour of salt 2 teaspoons of pepper 3 teaspoons garlic powder Heat a skillet over medium heat. When the skillet is hot, coat the skillet with a small layer of non-stick cooking spray. Add 6 eggs to a bowl and stir to break ... More About: Recipe
CAPSAICIN
More articles from this author:2007-11-22 06:50:00 Fellow Food Bloggers, I have decided to take a stand for truth, justice, and food science! I was watching a program on the Food Network of all places and was dismayed to find that in this, the year 2007, there is still confusion on one basic food principle. The host of the show, who shall remain ... 1, 2 |
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