chicken stock

After the roasting and the eating comes the making-stuff-with-the-scraps. This… …became this… …became this. I treated myself to a fine mesh strainer a couple of months ago; I make lemon curd enough that it was cheaper than restocking the cheesecloth, which I don’t really use for anything else. Still warm… …and cooled off for skimming [...]

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the big chicken post

Dinner for one. No, seriously. The Big Supermarket was having a sale on Purdue oven stuffers and, hey, nothing says ‘common sense’ like tossing an eight-pound chicken into the backpack along with ten pounds of flour and a giant cabbage when you’ve got a bad back… Which is how I ended up with an eight [...]

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Sweet and sour chicken

I’ve been following Jaden’s Steamy Kitchen blog for a while and Elise’s Simply Recipes for even longer, so as far I was concerned, when the former guested on the latter, there was no bad there. Jaden gave a recipe for Sweet and Sour chicken and it looked easy and relatively un-evil. Also, it had canned [...]

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see, not a vegetarian

Last weekend’s grilling attempt was a success in spite of itself. Somewhat counterintuitively, I went with a smaller fire on the day I was making meat. Everything got cooked eventually, but I was adding twigs and whatnot because it was a pretty tiny pile of charcoal. Part of my birthday present to myself was grill [...]

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