I don’t know beans. I like beans, and I like to cook, but outside of adding canned red kidney beans to make chile, I’ve never really tried to cook with them. However, there is a bag of dry navy beans in the pantry and last… Read More
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Everything but the kitchen sink isolation loaf
What is absolutely required: flourbaking sodabaking powdersalt2-3 bananassugar (or honey or whatever….I use maybe half a cup)butter or vegetable oil2 eggs Optional stuff: chopped up applescranberrieswhatever nuts you find in the cupboardbuttermilkvanillablueberries or any other kind of berrieschocolate chipscinnamon anything else that makes you happy… Read More
Paska-licious
Making paska, or Easter bread, has become a tradition at 27th Street. Usually we make 2 batches, or about 8 loaves so we can make lots of people around us happy, but seeing as we’re in the midst of a pandemic, we scaled back to… Read More
Corn Bread
Mark Twain famously wrote, “The North thinks it knows how to make cornbread, but this is gross superstition”. Once can only imagine how dreadful Canadian cornbread is, eh? I will make some confessions up front. I add wheat flour to my cornbread. It’s true, I… Read More
Everything but the Kitchen Sink Veggie Soup
Tuffy P requested some soup for dinner tonight. I rummaged around through the chaos which is our fridge and found some leeks, kale, carrots, celery, a few mushrooms and some Napa cabbage. I dug out some commercial stock hiding in the back of the pantry… Read More
Spicy Squid
Today from the Department of Pandemic Comfort Food, spicy stir-fried squid and broccoli, served over steamed rice, with a liberal sprinkling of fried shallots on top.
Cabbage Magic
We don’t cook cabbage very often, but we should because it is a remarkable vegetable which can be prepared in so many ways. Last night I roasted a cabbage and it was fabulous. Here’s how I did it…. First I cut up the cabbage and… Read More
My new friend Mr. Kohlrabi
I’ve been on the planet 58 and change years and only recently has it occurred to me to buy kohlrabi. This strange-looking vegetable is in the same family as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, and so on. You can cook it in all kinds of ways,… Read More
27th Street Hot Sauce
I’ve been picking a steady stream of chilies from the garden for some time. I think the season is about done though, so today I picked a big bowl of chilies, all the ones remaining on the various plants we have in containers out front.… Read More
Kitchen Sink Banana Loaf
There they sat – 3 bananas, a day or 2 past their prime. Bonus: house-guests are on their way. Resist the temptation to toss those bananas in the freezer where they will sit until I do a freezer purge. The only reasonable thing for a… Read More
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