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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
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!
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
Fall in the Garden
2007-10-05 15:10:00 Coming on the heels of two spectacularly beautiful Fall days with ample sun and lovely warm temps, we are being inundated with rain today; so much so that the normal width of the ‘river’ that tends to form in our backyard swale is now at least three or four times larger than normal. Thankfully I ... More About: Garden , In The Garden , The G , Arden
Wine-ing, Fall style
2007-10-02 04:41:00 Wine, wine, wine. So many wines, so little time, but I have enjoyed some splendid bottles recently. This bottle, a mix of syrah, merlot and cabernet sauvignon was a gift from a friend in my wine group, the Grape Nutz. She works for a wine distributor and this bottle is part of their selection. Its tannic ... More About: Wine , Style , Fall
Mmmmm?..pudding
2007-09-28 17:41:00 Admittedly, if I fell into a bowl of chocolate pudding and drowned, I would die a very happy woman. I just love the stuff. Let me tell you though, if I am ever around a bowl of chocolate pudding that is large enough for an adult to fall into and drown, that in itself would ... More About: Pudding
Garden Tortellini with Prosciutto
2007-09-25 20:52:00 We have had some unseasonably warm weather as Fall officially starts, and an awful lot of rain too; in fact, recent rains in the past week have all but wiped out our annual rainfall deficit and exceeded it by nearly two inches. September is quickly coming to an end and the trees are turning glorious ... More About: Garden , Arden , Garde
Weekends are made for fun
2007-09-23 16:11:00 Weekends. Isn’t that a wonderful word?? Although I am around the house pretty regularly, weekends really are my favorite time to be at home. Something about a Saturday or Sunday simply makes the light look different and of course, it’s way more relaxed, especially when your teenager can sleep until noon if you let him. IF. ... More About: Made
Mango Almond Pancakes
2007-09-20 12:37:00 Weekend mornings are one of my favorite times of the week. Lazy wake up times (well, not according to our cat, who insists on playing leap frog over us at 5:00am in an effort to get us out of bed), a hot cup of coffee and a leisurely amount of time to do what ... More About: Mango , Almond , Pancakes
Peanut Noodles
2007-09-17 22:44:00 If you’ve had Peanut Noodles , or Sesame Noodles or any kind of nutty noodles, then it isn’t such a stretch to imagine this dish in your mind; toothsome noodles, salty peanut sauce, the tang of something spicy to kick up the flavor a little, some scallion, lime juice maybe, a toss of cilantro. It’s ...
Soup and Bread Ph.D
2007-09-13 04:48:00 There’s soup, and then there’s soup. You’ve got canned, which in a pinch and with the right name on the label can be OK. It’s just OK though, nothing special. Then you’ve got your basic Bachelor degree soups. Kinda on the straight and narrow, nothing souper-wonderful nor are they the kind that make you sway ... More About: Soup , Bread , Brea
Food without a name
2007-09-11 20:41:00 If I titled this meal, like most tend to do, it would be called ‘Pasta with Chicken Sausage, Zucchini, Tomato, Broccoli, Caramelized Shallots and Carrots topped with Fresh Basil, and by the time I would get done saying it, I might need CPR, or quite possibly a stiff drink. Some dishes simply aren’t worth wasting such ... More About: Food
The sweet days of summer
2007-09-10 02:34:00 Technically, it’s still summer although I know a lot of people think that once school starts that summer is over. Fall officially begins on September 23, but once August ends, those blazing hot days of summer tend to tag right along with it like a chastised child. Then comes the picture perfect days of September, one ... More About: Summer , Sweet , Days
WCB- Mischief in Fur
More articles from this author:2007-09-08 15:02:00 All cat lovers/owners know that cats can be easily be full of mischief. It isn’t always of the naughtiest kind either; not the leap-frogging over us at 4:00am on a Saturday morning complete with well-placed claw pokes mischief, nor the playing with the food dispenser until the food is all over the floor mischief (and ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
