Category Archives: Food and Cooking

Kitchen adventures, disasters, and triumphs

Daily events at the end of the decade

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Marchbanks

This afternoon I’m filling the house again with the aroma of Christmas goose Continue reading →

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Dinner tonight:  Stoo

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Marchbanks

‘There ain’t more’n one kind.  That’s why it’s stoo,’ snapped the dwarf.  ‘Stoo’s stoo’. Continue reading →

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dink . . . dink . . . dink . . . dink

Posted on September 11, 2010 by Marchbanks

No, not the “dinks” that used to start All Things Considered. Continue reading →

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Just to prove that I can

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Marchbanks

Barring catastrophe, I intend to make plum jam. Continue reading →

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Pikl okras!

Posted on August 28, 2010 by Marchbanks

I just set up four pints of pickled okra to age for the next three weeks. Continue reading →

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There r pikls

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Marchbanks

I put up some pickles, but not nearly as many as I’d expected to do. Continue reading →

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New CSA basket

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Marchbanks

It arrived today . . . . Continue reading →

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How to use up beets

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Marchbanks

You find a hash recipe that uses beets, naturally. Continue reading →

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I haz a baskit

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Marchbanks

My first basket from the CSA co-op arrived today. Continue reading →

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That nearly worked

Posted on July 4, 2010 by Marchbanks

I had my first try at making a window screen using a jig to drill dowel holes to hold the members together. Continue reading →

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