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Kate in the KitchenKate in the KitchenFood and wine explorations, delicious ramblings and the evocative fare of a passionate cook. Cooking and eating from the heart, for my family and for my health. Exploring wines, rambling on food and sharing recipes. Articles
Tasty and spicy Green Pork Chili
2007-12-17 02:24:00 It’s Winter, it’s cold and I live in Minnesota. I tend to think it’s kind of my birthright to make hearty, delicious stews and soups for a decent chunk of the year. I can make regular red chili with my eyes closed….’yawn’….p ot roast can be sorta mundane and Mike isn’t much for red meat which ... More About: Green , Pork , Spicy , Chili
Ode to Frost and Sun
2007-12-12 16:02:00 I woke up to a shiny winter wonderland this morning- frost was everywhere, the crystal-y kind known as Hoar Frost . With the sun reflecting off the crystals it sure made for a lovely sight. Who says winter can’t be beautiful?? More About: In The Garden
I?ll stop saying ?Food? if you stop saying ?Nothing?
2007-12-12 02:07:00 I love my teenage son, I truly do. But he’s a teenager, after all, and he does have his moments. When he is being a particularly trying pain in the neck, I like to think about when he was three. He was ADORABLE!! Superbly cooperative, loving, sweet and contagiously funny. He loved to sit ... More About: Food , Stop
It?s cookie time in the city
2007-12-08 15:21:00 Aaaaaaand I’m back! Miss me? I did treat you to a few posts, shelved prior to ‘the week without tastebuds’ in my house so I wasn’t superbly absent. Interestingly enough, while I recuperated, my blog was inundated with hits, mostly searching for pictures of funny cats. I suppose I’m not so remiss in that area, but ... More About: Recipes , Time , City , In the City , Cookie
Sweet memories
2007-12-06 14:55:00 (it’s the last day with the annoying splints in my nose; tomorrow= freedom!! and breathing!! and tasting!! Watch for a pensive piece on the inability to taste food when food is the center of your life) Years ago, really almost another lifetime, I worked in a huge wholesale bakery as an office manager. It was ... More About: Sweet , Memories
Salad in the ?hood
2007-12-04 16:49:00 (Hi all, still recovering; still can’t taste anything. Check out a recent salad that made me smile! It’s particularly beautiful to look at what with our second snowfall in three days descending on us. Enjoy!) I often have, quite to my delight, an overwhelming and urgent need to eat just vegetables, or mostly vegetables; note ... More About: Salad , Hood
From the pantry?..
2007-12-02 14:33:00 (as I recuperate from nasal surgery, which means the inability to taste anything and feeling like I am suffering from the worst cold EVER, feel free to peruse this post I wrote a few weeks back; it’s all relevant to food anyway) There’s a surefire way to spur on a home improvement project such as ... More About: Pantry
Food that moves and soothes
2007-11-29 15:28:00 I am no stranger to surgery under general anesthesia; in the past three years I have undergone three abdominal surgeries, one requiring three days in the hospital, to help alleviate a chronic problem. But this surgery is different; it’s on my face, specifically my nose. And that terrifies me. I have a deviated septum which will ... More About: Food , Recipes , Moves
How smart am I?
2007-11-28 02:31:00 So, one good thing about leftover turkey is making soup. I love a good soup, and today, for whatever reason, it turned really frickin’ cold! (maybe being it’s late November in Minnesota?? gosh, i dunno!) Like wind ripping right through you cold; what the ol’ timers in this part of the country like to ... More About: Smart
When the party?s over?
2007-11-26 12:02:00 So another Thanksgiving has come and gone. Family time, food-massive-food and a long weekend (for some, not for me, though) is all but a fond and distant memory. We had a gorgeous and gentle snowfall on Thanksgiving; fluffy flakes that floated, swirled and blew through the sky, and at twilight they fell in the deepening ... More About: Party , The Party
WCB- Just Chillin? (part 2)
2007-11-24 15:34:00 Last weekend Bustopher and Harmon showed off some of their favorite cozy spots around the house. Then, it happened; they found another one, both of them, and as cats go they aren’t very happy about sharing this newfound awesome sleeping arrangement. First Bustopher discovered it: Then, when he made the fatal error of getting out, Harmon quickly ... More About: Part
Thankful?.no matter what day it is
2007-11-23 13:16:00 Like Valentine’s Day, I am hoping that, collectively, everyone learns to be thankful for the blessings in their life every day of the year, and not just the fourth Thursday in November. This holiday isn’t very closely tied in to much ‘Hallmark-ing’; there’s no serious cards to be seen, no extreme gadgets that scream and whine ... More About: Matter , Hank
What, or who makes you smile?
2007-11-20 14:51:00 You Make Me Smile Award I happened to notice recently that I was getting a lot of hits from Susan’s site; whenever this occurs in my blog stats, I tend to scoot on over to the site to see why. Imagine my surprise when I found she’d given me a You Make Me Smile Blog Award! ...
well, it TASTED good
2007-11-19 03:24:00 Even if it doesn’t look quite as spectacular as it tasted. It’s Stir Fried Chicken in Lettuce Wraps. This recipe caught my eye back in the April issue of Food and Wine. I love food like this; quick to make, fun to eat and a pleasing flavor to the tastebuds. When I see a recipe in ... More About: Good , Well
WCB- Just Chillin?
2007-11-17 15:35:00 Everyone knows that Cats are power loungers; they sleep, what? Like 20 hours a day? God, what a life. Take Harmon for example; he has age on his side, he’s 14 after all; lying around the house comes even easier for him being he’s the old guy. He has mastered the art of power snoozing, ...
Join me at The Created Wor(l)d.
2007-11-15 02:52:00 One thing that continually amazes me about the blogging world is how you can make friends with people you have never met. Another Kate, who blogs from Saskatchewan, Canada about her gorgeous garden and musical, artistic life, had a wonderful idea to make a creative writing blog with a collective group of bloggers from all walks ... More About: Join
I?m pretty sure they were trying to make a run for it?..
2007-11-13 14:56:00 but unfortunately, as poultry plans go, it failed to materialize as expected for the birds: from the Minneapolis/St. Paul Star Tribune, Monday November 12, 2007 TURKEYS KILLED, TRAFFIC BACKED UP FOR HOURS IN MOUNDS VIEW A semitrailer truck hauling live turkeys rolled over on a freeway ramp in Mounds View early Monday, killing most of its cargo ... More About: Make , Pretty , Were
risotto, risotto?.wherefore art thou?
2007-11-11 17:48:00 Oh yeah, right here. I was kinda flippin’ out looking over some of my recent posts because I could have sworn I did a post on my last risotto meal and couldn’t find it anywhere! Not that I can’t be accused of bein’ a slacker sometimes; how many days did it take me to post a ... More About: Risotto
Oh that?s good eatin?
2007-11-07 05:24:00 I’m not sure how I got this type of salad on the brain; honestly, I can’t figure out how certain cravings come my way sometimes, but thankfully we have places like Bob’s Red Mill website that serve for helping a craving for grains be an easier endeavor to undertake. Behold Lentil Couscous Salad with Wheatberries. I ... More About: Good
Hand crafted blog
2007-11-06 02:38:00 I just thought I would show you what the beginnings of a hand crafted White Mocha latte looks like. The coffee shop I work for, called Dunn Bros., prides itself on ‘hand crafted espresso drinks’. (It’s like calling the Subway Sub Shop workers ‘Sandwich Artists’.) We do make all our drinks from scratch with ... More About: Blog , Hand
It was Halloween last week, wasn?t it?
2007-11-05 02:25:00 It slipped my mind that I wanted to post photos of my one elaborate pumpkin carving experience; the one that included a drill, a knife and about 45 minutes of work. Yes, I said a DRILL. With a drill BIT. A power tool. Here’s proof. I knew no one would believe it if I didn’t have proof. And ... More About: Week , Halloween , Allo
WCB- Chillin??.with games
2007-11-03 14:54:00 Have I mentioned before how Bustopher and Mike are best buddies? They really are, sometimes to the complete and total avoidance of anything that has to do with me. I adopted him, for pete’s sake; saved him from the shelter and gave him a great home (uh…that would be THE CAT, not the husband!!) but ... More About: Games
Gingersnap Chicken
2007-11-01 01:49:00 Not too long ago I made some salmon that I cooked in apple butter, and used some apple cider for a quick reduction. I had thought at the time that it would be delicious with a fall-style compote, maybe of apples and nuts so I filed that away in some part of my brain for ... More About: Chicken
Better than your basic buttered noodles
2007-10-25 23:27:00 Sometime in your life, admit it; you’ve cooked up a batch of pasta and dropped a few pats of butter on it, sprinkled it with parmesan cheese, maybe from a green can, and sat down to eat it sloppily, your lips shiny with butter while your tummy says ‘Mmmmm, thanks so much!’ as your brain ... More About: Noodles , Basic
Shooting from the hip
2007-10-23 18:51:00 When it comes to recipes, as you may have noticed, I am not that vigilant. I know it smacks of more appeal for a dish that I wax philosophic about on this blog when there is a step-by-step following it, but sometimes I have a fridge full of ingredients and no plan. My mind is ... More About: Shooting , Shoot
WCB- Enjoying the weather ?
2007-10-20 14:40:00 Here’s Bustopher in one of his rare dry moments from the past few weeks. We have seen phenomenal amounts of rain here in MN lately; something like 16 or 17 of the past 20 days have been wet, and not just a pithy type of rain either, it’s been more like monsoon season in the ... More About: Weather
What?s the terror level color for excessive use of Chili peppers?
2007-10-19 04:20:00 Here is an interesting article from The Associated Press: Spicy chili dish prompts London terror scare Updated Wed. Oct. 3 2007 2:56 PM ET The Associated Press LONDON — Super spicy chili sauce being cooked at a London Thai restaurant sparked road closures and evacuations after passers-by complained that the smell was burning their throats, police said Wednesday. London ... More About: Rants , Terror , Color , Raves , Hysteria
WCB- Helping (??)
2007-10-13 16:05:00 Whew! We haven’t been around Weekend Cat Blogging for quite a while! We have been reading the posts each week at the host sites and commenting when we can, but Fall has been a busy time and our weekends have been filled with other fun activities besides cat viewing. I know, I know…..how can there be ...
Fall in a squash shell
2007-10-12 15:17:00 My vegetable garden this past year was full of volunteer plants. Without one iota of work on my part other than covering the soil a year ago with leaves, grass and other mulch-y items, in the spring I had well over a dozen tomato plants come up from last years fallen comrades. The two or ... More About: Shell , Squash , Fall
Awww, nuts!
More articles from this author:2007-10-09 14:46:00 I am enamored with nuts. Truly, madly, deeply enamored. So much so that I tend to have a mini panic attack when my container of roasted no-salt almonds starts to show more container than almonds, or when our pistachio bag or salted-in-the-shell peanut box lacks a copious amount of it’s occupant. When I poured out the ... More About: Nuts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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