Category Archives: Food and Cooking

Kitchen adventures, disasters, and triumphs

Dinner experiment

Posted on October 7, 2002 by Marchbanks

I found the pepper flakes and decided to try sprinkling some over the plate of spring-green salad mix I had with dinner. Continue reading →

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Yecch.  0-for-2 on the beer tonight.

Posted on September 30, 2002 by Marchbanks

It’s so hoppy that even I, who like really hoppy beers, think it’s de trop. Continue reading →

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I hadn’t intended to make Hamburger Flambé this evening

Posted on September 29, 2002 by Marchbanks

The skillet suddenly burst into flames with a WHOOF. Continue reading →

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The beer’s on its way

Posted on September 29, 2002 by Marchbanks

And it’ll be here in about six weeks. Continue reading →

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And tonight’s selection from our kitchen is . . .

Posted on September 10, 2002 by Marchbanks

I feel better after a bowl of it, and I wasn’t even sick in the first place! Continue reading →

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Inventing vegetable stir-frys

Posted on September 9, 2002 by Marchbanks

It’s tremendously easy to do, you know; just use whatever veg you have hanging around. Continue reading →

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Fire in the hole, smoke in the sky

Posted on July 6, 2002 by Marchbanks

The only way I want a termite near my house is if it’s been fried first.
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And in all the excitement, dinner got served anyway

Posted on June 9, 2002 by Marchbanks

Tonight, before my run-in with the yellowjackets, I turned last night’s stewing chicken into tonight’s very good King Ranch Chicken. Continue reading →

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I progress

Posted on June 4, 2002 by Marchbanks

Now the question becomes:  where in the hell am I gonna find freezer space for all of them? Continue reading →

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I was mistaken

Posted on December 31, 2001 by Marchbanks

The Mixmaster that still works is a Model M4K, made sometime between June 1933 and April 1935, which I rescued from my grandmother’s barn. Continue reading →

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