Category: To Eat

Basic Lamb Stew

Lamb, cinnamon, cumin, tomatoes, garbanzos, pumpkin seeds, and yogurt? What could possibly be better than this luscious stew?

Vinagre (Pique): Puerto Rican Vinegar Condiment

This may become your favorite flavoring! Vinagre, also referred to as pique, in Puerto Rico is a standard condiment in most homes and at restaurants. The pineapple skins release juice that ferments to make a fruit vinegar that is rich in the enzyme bromelian and vitamin C.

The Happy Hollandaise Recipe

This is a XXX rated sauce! I have tried numerous hollandaise recipes, but none are as easy or a fool-proof as this simple one from the Sunset Cook Book of Favorite Recipes.  This makes a great blanket for your eggs Benedict or filet mignon. (I could go on and on with other allusions, but this…

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Talking Turkey

Ahhhhh. . . .  Fall!  Turning leaves, smoke drifting through the trees from the first wood stove fires of the year, frost on the pumpkin, bean soups, plaid, and. . .  turkey harvesting. We commenced our fall turkey harvest and processed six out of 23 birds of various sizes.  Here are some of the things…

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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.