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Desserts
Banana Pound Cake Pudding
The problem with making desserts around here is there's only two of us eating them. There comes a point, once in a while, where something goes stale before we can finish it. I've pretty much stopped trying to freeze things,
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Holidaze
Memorial Day 2018
It is dark and bleak outside. The rain is coming down in buckets. I guess it's kinda fitting for a Memorial Day weekend - the weekend where we're supposed to honor those who have died defending our country.
This isn't Veteran's
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Both of Us in the Kitchen
Pork Tenderloin
The planned dinner tonight was a pork tenderloin. Planned, as in I took a pork tenderloin out of the freezer. I had no idea what I was going to do with it, but then, that's not unusual. I tend to
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Tim in the Kitchen
Otway Fields Salts
Today was a great day. First, the nice UPS man arrived with my new mandoline blade. His arrival was perfect timing. Blanche heard the truck - she literally goes out of her mind over the UPS truck - and went
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Victor in the Kitchen
Roasted Garlic Gnocchi with Pesto
Okay. I just had the best gnocchi I have ever had in my life. Really. No hyperbole, no exaggeration. Perfect pillows of flavor nestled in pesto.
O.M.G.
A dear friend of ours called him yesterday wanting a bit of gnocchi advice. Susan
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Tim in the Kitchen
Sweet and Spicy French Dressing
The latest issue of Fine Cooking magazine has arrived just in time for tonight's dinner! I was at the produce market yesterday and was planning salads for dinner, tonight.
The store, Gentile's in Newtown Square, is about 15 minutes from us
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Desserts
Bourbon Glazed Pound Cake with Peaches
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”
― Oscar Wilde
I must admit that I didn't realize that was an Oscar Wilde quote until I went to look it up. I was thinking of the first
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Tim in the Kitchen
Sunday Seafood Supper
It's Sunday. That's a use up what's in the house day, because Monday is shopping.
I had some cod that I wanted to use, and also peppers from last night... I thought a pepper and tomato sauce with spaghetti might be
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Tim in the Kitchen
Chicken Stew, Drop Biscuits, and Royal Weddings
Okay. I'm not a royal watcher. I have nothing against filthy rich people who never have to worry about where their next tin of Beluga 000 is coming from, I just have nothing in common with them. I mean... I've
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Desserts
Cherry Crumb Pie
It may seem early for cherries, but after tasting some this morning, I knew they were coming home with me!
It seems I haven't made a cherry pie in a while - or, I didn't blog about it. That's a possibility,
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Both of Us in the Kitchen
Artichokes
I brought home a couple of really nice artichokes, today. I am a big fan of artichokes. They were a special treat back when I was a kid. Mom would always steam them and we'd have mayonnaise to dip the
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Victor in the Kitchen
Orecchiette with Chicken and Asparagus
I called home at lunch, today, and, as per usual, we talked about dinner. It's usually a take something out of the freezer, or what did you have in mind... There was already a big package of chicken in the
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Tim in the Kitchen
Salmon with Fennel and Leeks
There's a storm a'brewin' outside... We're expecting hail, 70 mph winds... thunder and lightening... It's looking pretty eerie...
Blanche is under my desk, right now. She went to the back door, looked out, looked up at me, and decided she was
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Tim in the Kitchen
Baby Back Ribs
It's 45 days to retirement, and the last hurdle has been jumped. We have health insurance starting July 1st. It wasn't easy sorting through the bazillion and one options and plans - and at soon-to-be 66 years of age, this
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Victor in the Kitchen
Spaghetti and Shrimp
Spaghetti. Probably my most favorite of the hundreds upon hundreds of pasta shapes.
I certainly don't remember a lot of pasta shapes as a kid. Pasta was spaghetti. Macaroni was elbow macaroni used for making macaroni salad or macaroni and cheese.
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Bread
Pistachio, Onion, and Cheese Bread
We've gone from 90°F to 50°F in mere days, with wind, rain, thunderstorms, and tornado watches... Right now, it's pouring rain outside and my sunburn from the baseball game on Thursday is rapidly fading.
Welcome to Spring in Pennsylvania.
Inclement weather means
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Desserts
Birthdays and Mother's Day
Friday was Victor's Mom's 92nd birthday. Today - Mother's Day - would have been my Mom's 92nd birthday. They were born 2 days apart on opposite coasts and both would share a birthday with Mother's Day from time to time.
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Desserts
Cantucci
Cantucci is a Tuscan biscotti, and, as Martha Stewart says, this variety is also called biscotti di Prato.
A biscotti by any other name would smell as sweet.
Deepest apologies to William Shakespeare.
We were watching Martha the other night when she
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Tim in the Kitchen
Chicken and Polenta
Last night I spatchcocked a chicken and cooked it on the grill. I rubbed it liberally with Penzey's Ozark Seasoning and let it cook under indirect heat for a bit more than an hour. It was really good.
But, even with
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Desserts
Strawberry Shortcake
Strawberry season! My favorite time of year - besides Peach season, Blackberry season, Watermelon season...
I remember the strawberries at my grandparents house in Bakersfield. There was a brick BBQ pit in their backyard that had been filled with dirt and
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Tim in the Kitchen
Scallops
Let's see... It's Cinco de Mayo and the Kentucky Derby. The dinner possibilities are pretty much endless... So endless, in fact, that I decided to ignore all of it and cook up some scallops.
I suppose I could have come up
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Desserts
Berry Custard Birthday Pie
It's Birthday Cake time - which, this year, means a pie.
I was perusing recipes in my Mom's Cook Books and the pies kept jumping out at me. I finally decided that a pie was it - and a creamy pie
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Tim in the Kitchen
Polpettone Ripieno Uova E Spinaci
It's Victor's Birthday. His traditional birthday dinner is Meatloaf, Mashed Potatoes, and Peas. It's what he likes, it's what he gets.
Most of the time, I've just made my traditional meatloaf, but now and again, I've given it a twist. I
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Tim in the Kitchen
Buying Herbs and Spices
I have been buying herbs and spices from San Francisco Herb and their sister company Atlantic Spice for more years than I care to remember. Back in the day, I'd drive down to their store in San Francisco and just
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Victor in the Kitchen
Sunday Spaghetti and Meatballs
There's nothing better than a big ol' plate of Spaghetti and Meatballs - especially when you have fresh-from-the-oven bread to eat along with it. Unless, of course, you're a 92 year old who no longer likes spaghetti. Or homemade sauce. Or
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Bread
Multi Grain Sandwich Bread
When you make a lot of bread, you get a feel for the dough. It speaks to you as you're kneading or forming. This dough didn't just speak to me - it sang! From the minute I started I knew
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Victor in the Kitchen
Pork Chops Milanese alla Victor
I brought home a couple of pretty nice bone-in pork chops, yesterday. I was thinking a Pork Chop Milanese-style dish was in order. We've been through the chicken and beef rut a few times - it was time for something
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Tim in the Kitchen
Chicken Stew
We have a Freeze Warning, tonight. It's April 19th.
I am not amused.
I don't mind the rain, I don't mind the overcast or clouds. I'm really tired of the cold, though. Dank, penetrating cold that seeps into your entire being. And
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Tim in the Kitchen
Sausages and Artichokes
I am pretty certain my 23 and Me Ancestry is wrong. I'm Sicilian - pale, peeling, cancer-prone skin be damned. I mean... how else can you explain my gravitation to - hell, it's almost an obsession - with Sicily and
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Tim in the Kitchen
Chili con Carne
I bought a tri-tip roast on Friday with plans to grill it, today. I knew it wasn't going to be the great summer-like weather we had Friday and Saturday, but - what the hell... we grill all winter long.
What I
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