Having friends is especially helpful when you want to make something that is possibly time intensive and you might be bored if you do it alone. I wanted to try making homemade gnocchi and my friends Carrie, Erin, Jessica and Kelly were up for an evening of fun. It was delicious. Jessica is the resident cooking [...]
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April 17, 2009Fake Pho
March 29, 2009Above is a photo of real Pho I found on the internets. I have never made real Pho. We go to Pho restaurants for this and it is DELICIOUS! However, at home, I make a reasonable facsimile with cooked beef, based on a recipe from the Racheal Ray Everyday magazine. It’s from way back in [...]
Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day
February 5, 2009One thing you should know about me, Jonathan, is that I love bread. I love everything about it. I love it so much that when I was growing up, my family made a rule that the bread plate had to be passed around the table before it got to me so that I wouldn’t eat [...]
New recipe and a bit of an experiment
January 28, 2009The February 2009 issue of Every Day with Rachael Rayincluded a recipe that you cook in a colander! Oh my! I had to try it. That, and it included baby bok choy and couscous, which we enjoy. Here’s the recipe: Ingredients 1/2 cup soy sauce 6 tablespoons brown sugar 1 1/2 tablespoons sesame oil One [...]
Not always a winner
January 15, 2009Jonathan would have you to believe that I am a great cook. True, we do not go hungry, but sometimes I have really bad ideas. Since I had a particularly bad idea this week, I thought I’d share it with you. Let me preface by saying I work for an accounting firm that is amazing [...]
Root Vegetable Tagine
October 29, 2008Okay, this is the last recipe for the day, but I’m not going to lie, it was a good one! I’ve been having a hard time looking for slow cooker recipes that do not take less than nine hours to finish or require meat on the bone (one of us doesn’t like meat on the [...]
Birthday Dinner
October 29, 2008For Jonathan’s birthday, he asked me to cook up a new recipe for dinner (we had already gone out to eat the previous two evenings and we like to keep things balanced). I offered up a selection from the various cookbooks and magazines we’ve got around the house and this is what he selected. (From [...]
South Africa…updated
October 28, 2008I wrote a few months ago about a trip to South Africa that we are going on with a group from our church. We have more details and many of you have received our “McPherson South Africa” email lately, but I thought I’d blog about it as well…. Basically, we will be in the town [...]
The brownie recipe
October 22, 2008I thought about making these brownies again and taking a photo because they really didn’t last long at our house, but I think you all just need to try them in your own home. Here you go, from Martha Stewart: Chocolate Ginger Brownies Ingredients: 1 stick unsalted butter, plus more for the baking dish 3 [...]
Happy October 15th!
October 15, 2008October 15th is a BIG deadline here in the wonderful world of accounting. All June 30th fiscal year end organizations, people who extended their tax filing and employee benefit plans have to file their tax info. For those of you who know enough about my job to know I don’t work with the tax department, [...]