Each Easter we make paska, or Easter bread. We don’t get too fancy about all the decorative braiding that some people do, but we make some rockin’ good bread every year. We bake the loaves in coffee cans and we make plenty so we can… Read More
A simple dinner tonight – jumbo shrimps, marinated with a chipotle marinade, grilled on the bbq and served up with roasted spicy sweet potato wedges.
The salad is romaine with slivers of red onion, seedless clementines, cut into pieces, and toasted walnuts. The dressing is walnut oil, lime juice, a half-teaspoon of an exotic lime mustard and a pinch of sugar. The omelettes are made with two eggs and filled… Read More
Lake Anchovy has drained away. The snow is gone. Today was beautiful. I hereby declare bbq season open at Anchovy World Headquarters. I took the winter cover off our Green Egg, found the charcoal chimney I had stashed in the shed back in the fall,… Read More
I posted a while back about trying a chayote, also known as a cho cho. My friend JA over at Gardening in Toronto has found an interesting use for them.
I was in my local grocery store yesterday shopping for a bunch of fresh veggies. My plan was to cook them all up with some garlic, hot chiles and black bean sauce. Cruising through the aisles, I came across a big display of chayote squash.… Read More
After I finished shoveling this morning, my old friend A came by and we went down the road to Around the Corner for breakfast. Tuffy P volunteers Sunday mornings at a nursing home so this was “boys breakfast out”. Around the Corner is a breakfast… Read More
I made a batch of pierogi last night for some friends who wanted to learn how to go about it. I filled them with a mixture of potato and cottage cheese, and after boiling, I sautéed them with onions and mushrooms. They were very tasty.… Read More
Coca Cola’s secret formula revealed? I never once even wondered about this, but now I know, and you do too.
Tuffy P and I have a weakness for blueberries with our morning soggies. As a result of our need to get that blueberry fix, we’re keenly aware of the bizarre pricing of the damn things. I’ve never seen any single item fluxuate in price quite… Read More
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