While I love cheesecake, I have cut way back on sugar. So I went looking for a cheesecake that was savory instead of sweet. I make a small bacon cheesecake because it is very rich and a small piece satisfies. I...
A while back we moved to Wales for a couple of years while BH worked on a college program in documentary photography. Classes at the uni were one day a week. Many of the students lived at home in various parts...
This soup is something BH made before we ever met. He showed me how to make it and I wrote the instructions. Over the years, I have refined the recipe and modified it to be gluten free and low in lactose....
I find that pot roast recipes are pretty similar. What is different about this one is the addition of tomato paste to the cooking broth. This makes a tomato-y pot roast with a very robust gravy. Day 1, I serve it...
BH and I are huge fans of the Liaden universe. Theo, one of the pilots, loves Maize Buttons. So Maize Buttons are mentioned in many of the books. Now usually I have some kind of idea of the real world equivalent...
Usually I make my quiches vegetarian. But I had a bunch of leftover ham from Easter – the little bits left over after you cut a few ham steaks. What to do with chopped ham? Make a quiche – crust-less of...
Like it seems everyone else, I can’t find hand sanitizer anywhere. I went online and found a really great recipe for homemade hand sanitizer at the World Health Organization (WHO). It makes 10 liters. https://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/Guide_to_Local_Production.pdf I don’t need that much. Also...
We often think that to get what we want, we have to have strong will power. Every year at the New Year, we make our list of goals or resolutions for the year and strongly will ourselves to achieve them. How...
Several years ago I came across a recipe for chicken marinated in dark rum. I started calling it Drunken Chicken and the name has stuck with me. Unfortunately the website it was on is now gone. Fortunately, I have a paper...
A lot of times I have only a few people for Thanksgiving dinner. So instead of cooking a whole turkey, I make a turkey breast. To save room in the oven for casseroles, I decided to play around with an instant pot...
