As a continuation of the Clear Out The Pantry project, I have about 1/3 bag shredded sweetened coconut to use so I went to SOAR for ideas. SOAR is a thoroughly comprehensive website but there are no recommendations or feedback, only recipes, which makes me leery. That said, the recipe below may be the answer. It uses about the right amount of ( Read more... )

WHAT'S AMORE?When the moon hits your eye ( Read more... )

The meme is "The 106 books most often listed as unread by LibraryThing users." Which means one should note which books one actually owns and has not read, and not simply which books one has not read. So:
- Bold means I own it by intent; it does not include books kept at the behest of another member of the household.
- Underline means I've read it ( Read more... )

What I Wanted: a Subway Teriyaki Chicken salad with lots of extra meat, or a peanut butter sandwich. Or maybe both, I've been stunningly hungry today.

What I Had: a Subway coupon for 2 footlong subs for $9, a jar of PB at my desk ( Read more... )

This is how I ended up making Pork Stew, with my methodology turned into a recipe. As with all stews, this is better the next day ( Read more... )

I see stew. I see stew in the cubed Boston Butt pork, a startlingly large number of portobelloes, roast garlic, roast onion, semi-dehydrated zucchini, celery in my fridge. I'm thinking about how to make it. I see something like this ( Read more... )

1. If your host served you pie, would you want/need to know that the crust included a very small amount of alcohol? (Yes/No)

2. Do you know someone who would want/need to know that the crust included a very small amount of alcohol? (Yes/No)

(I encourage you to pass this question on and report back.)

For dinner today I decided to make Fidget Pie, a savory pie consisting of layers of potato, apple, ham & sauteed onions, with some gravy and a top crust. Part of the reason to make it was to try Cook's Illustrated's new "perfect" crust.[1][2] There was, as always, dough scraps left over and, as always, I decided to make a mini-tart with it. I ( Read more... )

I'm doing a lot of these lately. Not a good sign ( Read more... )

My ISP has been acting up in the past few weeks which means my firstname@lastname email is unreliable. Some days I get it, some days I don't. If you need to email me, use my yahoo addy. If you don't know it, post to here and I'll send it to you ( Read more... )