Author: Butternutplace

Who I am: I gravitate toward rhubarb, bacon, ferments, dictionaries, cheese, canoes, Airstreams, fava beans, family, farm animals, and preps. And a whole lot more.

Yummy Easy Chocolate Mousse

This  recipe is superbly yummy and relatively easy.  It does not demand the cooking and stirring of the egg custard.  Make it the day before and refrigerate it to allow time to set up properly.  Very easy to double to serve more folks. Makes 2 cups (about 4 servings) 4 oz semisweet chocolate chips1 egg,…

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Tangy Shrimp Mango Salad

A tangy shrimp salad recipe that explains quite bit, but not how to properly use the plural form of mango.

Baby Needs Shoes

Where my appreciation for Ray Charles is amplified when I contemplate #1 Son’s shoes.

Vaquero Pork and Beans

Our Rotary club hosted an international friendship exchange this weekend with some Australian Rotarians.  One of our dinners was a BBQ potluck, and I volunteered to bring pork and beans.  Wanting to serve something representative of this side of the pond, I went for the west coast: a Mexican cowboy version of pork and beans….

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Winnie’s Posole

First order of business: how in the heck do you pronounce this stuff?

Broth Pageant

Chicken carcasses and an old ham bone transformed.