I have an awesome new stove! A KitchenAid 5 Burner 36″ Gas Stove! The middle burner is a blowtorch at 18,000 BTU! My almost new, came with the house, JennAir range is now functioning beautifully as a counter. I’m able to use it now more than ever. The glass top still won’t come clean no [...]

Rolling your own pizza dough is very serious work… It takes concentration. Just right! Nope, I did not reshape it. All his! Edwin’s helping me with mine. i tend to pile on everything until it sags in the middle. His helping me isn’t improving that. Now he’s making his own pizza. He doesn’t quite have [...]

Oatmeal for breakfast is easy and quick.  So nice to have a 8 minute hot breakfast that’s healthy and tastes good. My favorite is pecans and cranberries. My grandmother used to keep oatmeal all mixed up with her favorite ingredients in a large jar in her kitchen. Now I do too! My favorite mix: Oatmeal [...]

This is a classic easy dish.  Most cultures have some version of it, but good old Creole style is my favorite. Ingredients 1 bag red beans. Small beans are preferred. 1/2 Onion Celery Olive oil Pepper (I used an overgrown banana pepper in this meal, but generally I  just use what’s ripe. Red pepper flakes [...]

Apples, tulips, marijuana and potatoes… The premise is that plants manipulate us to increase their species. Interesting thought, but that’s about it. More interesting is the history of humans and these 4 plants. Johnny Appleseed as you’ve never heard about him, potatoes as the fasttrack to the devil. Tulip obsessions… Also, slightly out of date, [...]

Jambalaya is one of those everything in the pantry put in a pot meals. Basically rice, but rice raised to such a level! Ingredients Basmati rice (just my preferred type) (1 cup) Meat (approx 1 cup) I’m using my homemade sausage here. Other classic options are chicken, shrimp, pretty much anything. Onion (1/2) Fresh thyme [...]

Homemade sausage is extremely easy to make. It’s a classic way of making a little meat stretch further so there are so many recipes for it it’s amazing. Most of the recipes start out with adding 1/2 the meat poundage in lard. My question is if they tell you they put this much fat in [...]

So it’s the afternoon, I don’t feel like going to the store and I need to make dinner tonight. My thoughts rest on the instant pizzas in the freezer – no matter which brands I buy they’re always greasy and taste vaguely of cardboard. Emergencies only. So why not have good pizza? You need 2 hours before dinner [...]

Ok, so I’m interested in food. Any story about food. This book champions “real food” and it does it well.   It definitely made me think twice about the science of nutrition. I wonder about how healthy non fat is considering that’s what our brains are mostly made of. 60% fat or so. Really makes [...]

I’m starting a dinner of the week column as a good way to add variety in our weekly menu. This will force me to do at least one interesting dinner every week! Ingredients Pasta (I prefer Linguine for this) 1 to 1 1/2 lbs Fish Chunks (They’ll have fish scraps or kabob meat behind the [...]