Irene Voskamp and Colin Schwarting went off to check out the new community center and pool/spa/hot tub and such. After the serious sick the last week (3 days in bed) my back and internal thermometer...
Sous-vide cooked beef bone marrow is on my mind. (well, Facebook asked) I read sous-vide bone marrow somewhere and now it's on my mind. I also know I have several pounds of gorgeous marrow bones in...
No recipe that includes the phrase "mix up 7 sticks of butter" can go wrong ... An old school craftsman like (read fucking load of work in a cold kitchen) old school old world croissant recipe....
Food. Thursday fasting, yesterday only food at noon onwards, mostly crispbakes and milk, and some hutspot with brats in the evening, today fasting, so tomorrow, I'm planning a feast. First I'll hook...
Tonight's dinner was most excellent. Onion soup and sous-vide sirloin with sous-vide glazed carrots. The onion soup was very very good. Best I had in, well, America at least, possibly ever. All made...
My cooking sometimes gets a touch out of hand. I saw some beef stock in the fridge ... So tonight's dinner will be French onion soup (I'll make chicken stock from scratch to supplement the beef...
It's been a while since I had to clean up a trail of blood like that. Spring cut her paw last night: she clean sliced off the inside side of her outside pad on the left front paw. It bled. She ran....
Working on seeing if I can make frites in winter. I kept the Russet potatoes out of the fridge for a minimum of three days in case they'd been frozen. Then Irene peeled the potatoes, I then cut it to...
Good weekend: I made 9 pounds of freshly smoked bacon (wet brined in apple cider, molasses and salt, cold smoked 10 hours on apple and cherry wood) and 70+ eggs pickling (apple cider vinegar, my own...
Tomorrow I'll be cold smoking a 100-ish hard steamed eggs, thin slices of cheddar and Monterey Jack cheese, and 9 pounds of wet brined pork belly. I'm thinking apple wood. After that we'll switch to...
