Last week I made a batch of jerky, mostly to prove to myself I could do it. I’m planning to make some to take on a canoe trip in August with East Texas Red. After I had devoured the first batch, E.T. Red commented that… Read More
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The Jerky Experiment
In August of this year, I’m planning on a canoe trip in Quetico Provincial Park with my friend East Texas Red. For this trip, I’m looking after making sure we eat well, a job I take seriously. Weight is an issue as we’ll have something… Read More
Lemon Bars
Today is Sheila’s birthday. She asked that I make her lemon bars and also that I get some bibimbap from Tasty Korea for dinner tonight. No problem. Never mind that I’ve never made lemon bars. My expertise is in eating lemon bars, not baking them.… Read More
How to make a frittata
My friend and Agency Podcast co-host Candy asked me to show her how to make a frittata. We did that this afternoon and Candy filmed it. Tomorrow we’ll be talking frittata on the next episode of The Agency Podcast during one of our regular Comfort… Read More
Green Tomatoes
Each season I’ve grown indeterminate tomatoes, we wind up with a lot of green tomatoes when the first killer frost is close. A few years ago, I learned that you can roast green tomatoes and eventually they sweeten up and make an excellent (green) sauce.… Read More
Dried tomato, hot chile, corn, sage & cheese muffins
Tuffy P asked me if I could make some kind of savoury muffins today. I thought about what ingredients I had on hand for a minute. I suppose the normal thing to do would be to look up recipes, but that’s not nearly as much… Read More
Cooking from the garden
For years growing veggies at our home had been limited by lots of shade. I could grow spinach and lettuce and onions and some herbs and a few other things but forget about tomatoes or chilies or chard. That changed when Nick’s bungalow next door… Read More
ASMR Cooking?
Do you like to cook or enjoy learning about cooking or watching food being prepared? Check out Culinary Frank. Nobody speaks in these videos, which are referred to as ASMR cooking. They progress at a steady, chilled out pace. The shots are beautiful. Ingredient amounts… Read More
Jazzing up Instant Noodles
We have some instant noodles in the pantry. We don’t eat them often, but I thought in a pandemic, when you don’t want to go shopping any more than necessary, they will come in handy. This afternoon I decided to try jazzing them up a… Read More
Braised eggs and pork belly
When I was in Hanoi, one of my fave breakfasts came from a lady at the corner of the alleyway just down the way from my hotel. She had a sign that read XOI, which is sticky rice, but when you asked for some she… Read More
