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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
Someone ELSE made dinner?.
2008-02-02 02:28:00 and he’s 13. Yes, many younger ones pull up chairs and stools with their moms and dads all the time so it’s not a huge deal, but in our house, it is! And this meal he did all by himself, with me just being the sous-chef and mostly staying out of the way. One of his ... More About: Dinner , Made
Adopt a Blogger
2008-01-31 23:18:00 Kristen at Dine and Dish (my Greys Anatomy sounding board) began a great blogging event. She pairs up veteran bloggers (like me, apparently) with new bloggers to create a virtual buddy support system. The veteran blogger supports the new kid on the block and helps them feel more comfortable in the massive food blogging ... More About: Blogger , Adopt
Crazy?..
2008-01-30 04:24:00 Temperatures this week in Minnesota: Monday: 43 (that would be ABOVE zero; balmy and Spring-like. I went for an hour’s walk and came home sweaty) Tuesday: 10 was the high, -18 will be the low Wednesday: 4 above for the high, but wind speeds dropping to -45 in some areas. A windchill warning. Thursday: 12 Friday: 19 Even the snowmen around ... More About: Rants , Raves , Crazy , Hysteria
Once more, with feeling?
2008-01-28 13:33:00 I love Jambalaya, rich tomato-y goodness loaded with vegetables and meat. It’s one of Griffin’s favorites (it’s all that meat, y’ know) and it’s so good-smelling and tasty. I have tried out certain recipes in books that have not given me any reason to sigh deeply in satisfaction. One made me recoil in horror; I just ... More About: Feeling
Lentil Love, and an event
2008-01-23 16:46:00 Susan, aka The Well Seasoned Cook, is hosting a Legume Love Affair on her delicious and eye soothing blog. Something about her background color is very calming; maybe it’s just me, but apart from her delicious recipes, I could hang out on her site just to ease my mind. In honor of National Bean ... More About: Event
Rib Stickin? Goodness
2008-01-21 03:34:00 I’ve felt lately like I am in a rut, food wise. We’ve been having lots of old standbys, feasting on leftovers, making pizzas etc. etc. but I haven’t really been scratching around for anything new, fun and exciting to share. Yeah, there was the lentil dish that was fab, the Thai chicken that we love ... More About: Goodness
WCB- Deep freeze dilemma
2008-01-19 15:44:00 A deep freeze has settled over Minnesota; temps below zero, dangerous low windchills and bright sunny skies. With the exception of the bright sunshine, it’s not fun. And it’s especially not fun for Bustopher who has gamely gone outside quite a bit lately chasing the ever elusive meeses for sport and pleasure. We had a friend ... More About: Deep , Freeze , Dilemma , Deep Freeze
Catchin? Tory Chicken
2008-01-14 21:17:00 So long ago that I don’t even know how old I was, nor what adult level of life I was in; I only know it was prior to 30, as I was kidless, I sat in one of those cookie-cutter italian restaurants with some friends, drinkin’ cheap-ass red vinegar disguised as house wine and ... More About: Chicken , Tory
WCB- The good and the bad
2008-01-12 16:40:00 If you are a cat, there are many things that can be either described as ‘a good idea’ or ‘a bad idea’; and potentially, ‘a very bad idea’. Like chewing electrical cords- ‘a bad idea’ or Scratching furniture (unless its yours)- ‘a bad idea’ or jumping on the humans at 4:00am- ‘a very bad idea’ and eating old grass and barfing on ... More About: Good , The Good
Show me your rack!
2008-01-10 01:46:00 It’s a Meme! And it’s a ridiculous play on words, as I am sure my search stats will go crazy now with weirdos looking for photos of racks. Come on…..you KNOW what I mean! Dave from Rattling the Kettle has started a meme for showing off your spice rack. I think it’s more an effort on ... More About: Show , Rack
Taste the warm of winter wine?..
2008-01-07 04:38:00 ….and dream of softly falling snow. We had a very snowy December, but now are under the spell of a January thaw. And just as I was really getting into my new cross country skis! Winter ! Snow! Come back!! One highlight of winter is my sister in law’s annual Wine and Cheese Party. It’s a highlight ... More About: Taste
WCB- Holiday Mischief
2008-01-05 19:33:00 We missed WCB last weekend as we were recovering from all our holiday fun. Here the cats want to show off the fun they had at Christmas time. Ahhh, cats. The masters of mischief. And what can be more mischief inducing than the holidays? There’s lots of changes with decorations being put up and people coming ... More About: Holiday
For the love of lentils
2008-01-03 02:16:00 Whole grains, legumes, colored vegetables; we all know we’re supposed to eat more of these healthier options and what better time than a post holiday meal to offer up such delicious, and also healthy fare? I spotted this recipe on Deb’s site and instantly knew that Mike and I would love it. Griffin? ... More About: Love , Lentils
Thai it, it?s delicious
2007-12-31 11:43:00 HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE! My in life, real friend Angela has this fantastic recipe for Thai Chicken (or as she calls it, Thai Thighs) that mixes up a whole mess of flavorful items that is poured over chicken and baked. Simple, easy….and fabulous. Like Angela. See?? Here she is….. . She’s also a master at cooking gluten ... More About: Delicious
Christmas: A+; Scalloped Potatoes: F-
2007-12-26 16:10:00 I admittedly am much harder on myself than others when something in my kitchen doesn’t work like I want it too; a failure to me is something that doesn’t even come close to being what I expected, regardless if others consume it without question, or even better, go back for seconds. That would be the case ... More About: Christmas , Potatoes , Allo
Peace on the Earth, good will to men?.
2007-12-24 15:26:00 from heaven’s all gracious King. The world in solemn stillness lay, to hear the angels sing. Have a very Merry Christmas, from our house and kitchen, to yours. More About: Peace , Earth , Good
WCB- The Christmas Edition
2007-12-21 20:12:00 Please, please, pleeeeeeeaaaaaasssse let me just screeeeeeech to a halt here, take a deeeep breath and allow for all the frenzy around us to STOP for just ONE DAY. I love Christmas , but I don’t love the manic state of Christmas. It just shouldn’t be like this. It’s a celebration of the birth of Christ, not ... More About: Edition
Skeletons in my pantry
2007-12-20 19:54:00 Katie, of Thyme For Cooking has offered up a great blogging event for our food skeletons to be made public. Now isn’t this going to be fun? We get to offer up all our dark secrets that we love to eat but hate to tell anyone. It’s hard to own up to having such guilty ... More About: Pantry
Griffin made us a snack
2007-12-19 01:55:00 Not much to it; hard boiled egg yolks mixed with some mayo and deli mustard, a sprinkle of paprika and celery salt, then scooped back into the whites. But he made them, from start to finish. My only role was to sprinkle in the seasonings as he said ‘I probably can’t manage to get those right’. ... More About: Made , Choice , Snack , Griffin
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)
More articles from this author: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 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
