Category Archives: Food and Cooking

Kitchen adventures, disasters, and triumphs

I can haz ham rolz

Posted on December 25, 2009 by Marchbanks

The bread machine does quite a nice job of mixing and kneading the dough for dinner rolls. Continue reading →

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This week has gone on FAR too long

Posted on September 4, 2009 by Marchbanks

It was Château Thames Embankment 2007, in case you were wondering. Continue reading →

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It’s the time again

Posted on August 23, 2009 by Marchbanks

There is Hatch chile pesto again. Continue reading →

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Something we all talked about doing one day

Posted on July 25, 2009 by Marchbanks

In which I get a kitchen computer, but not in the way I’d imagined. Continue reading →

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Winter cooking

Posted on November 16, 2008 by Marchbanks

The cool weather brought on a spell of wanting-to-cook-things. Continue reading →

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Now I don’t like fish . . .

Posted on February 10, 2008 by Marchbanks

I really needed to think of something to do with that fish before it got all freezer-burned and ruined. Continue reading →

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Soda run

Posted on April 16, 2007 by Marchbanks

But not just any soda, of course.  The soda. Continue reading →

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A customer compliment letter (not to me, FROM me)

Posted on July 2, 2005 by Marchbanks

I am a technical support specialist at the Empire, which also stresses a good customer experience to its employees, and the your partners’ actions and attitudes compared favorably, to my mind, with my employer’s. Continue reading →

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Dinner tonight

Posted on June 27, 2005 by Marchbanks

Pepper-smoked salmon and Emmenthaler quiche.  Needs a bit more paprika and some salt, but otherwise excellent.

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What was that lesson you learned, Sam?

Posted on April 23, 2005 by Marchbanks

The one about “never walk away from a pan of oil heating on the stove?” Continue reading →

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