It was a lovely Sunday filled with bright blue skies, the Blue Angels continuing to make the masses twitch and Gennie's experiments in the kitchen.

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i'm not sure if any of you folks out there have tried it but i'm curently making a fermented(not alchoholic though) drink called kombucha. if your not familiar kombucha is a live-culture drink made from sweetened tea. you ferment the sweetened tea with a white blob of bacteria and yeast called the mother or yeast beast. it has a tangy slightly sour ( Read more... )

( I made a lemon souffle last night )

Felt like something a little different from the usual crap I've been subsisting on lately, and i've really been craving sesame seared tuna lately (which I've had two other times this year, at different restaurants); so I wandered in to Uwajimaya (the local Asian supermarket) to pick up a few things. Details below ( Read more... )

My future Mother in-law Mrs. Jenner gave me a mighty fine recipe for Christmas cake. For the non-English people in the crowd this is an incredibly sweet and rich fruit cake the English eat at Christmas. Now when most people think of fruit cake (self included) they make a face and quickly say, "ohnothankyouplease". Which is understandable. Most ( Read more... )

I was watching America's Test Kitchen the other day and they made Frico. It is kind of intriguing ( Read more... )

I had the *most* delicious mini-financiers yesterday--the first time I'd tasted them, and they are MAGNIFICENT! So I had to look up a recipe, it was imperative! Here's one from Patricia Wells, via Epicurious: (now I need to buy some financiers molds before I come home ( Read more... )

Today I am going to show Mr. Jenner how to roast a chicken. It is one of those no-brainer things to make and I told him while he has a great repertoire of dishes he needs to add things to it now and then. The whole chicken has been sitting in a brine for several hours (I started it yesterday) and the brine has kosher salt, bay leaves, a bit of ( Read more... )

Darn it... am I going to have to raise my own *salmon*, too!? (or to be more precise, catch my own salmon) For the record, folks, farm-raised fish are a poor source of Omega-3, so if that's what you're after, stick to tuna. (Same difference between grass-fed beef and conventionally raised beef ( Read more... )

orangish soup ( Read more... )