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What's For Dinner? v16.16 Big Beautiful Buns!
Buns Forever Unite!!! I have been enjoying experimenting with yeast and a bread machine this past year. I would really like to make bread the old way of slapping the dough on the breadboard to increase...
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What's For Dinner? v16.17 - Sweet Potato Apple Bake
I had a pork tenderloin and was thinking what to serve with it, and I remembered I had sweet potatoes, and thought “bake sweet potatoes with apples”! I don’t remember ever trying this before and I was...
View ArticleWhat's For Dinner? v16.18 Au Recherche des Persimmons Perdus
In a magical time known as the 1970’s, a young ghost grew up in a small suburb where the Central Valley of California began to give way to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains. It’s all...
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What's For Dinner? v16.19 "Dump" Recipes
So, what is a “dump” recipe? Simply put, a dump recipe is where you dump all your ingredients into one pot and proceed to cook it. These are super simple recipes that don’t usually require a lot of...
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What's For Dinner? v. 16.20 - Cranberries: from salad to dessert - and even a...
‘Tis the season to enjoy cranberries, in all their beauty and (with a bit of sweetening) their deliciousness. This WFD entry is a joint venture by Hanging Up My Tusks (in the middle) and pixxer (at the...
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What's for Dinner? v16.21: Thanksgiving Leftovers!
Good evening all and welcome to our weekly table! For many this weekend after Thanksgiving in the US is a time for shopping and putting up the holiday decorations so the leftovers from the big meal are...
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What's For Dinner? v. 16.22: Memory is Weird.
Didja ever remember something you used to eat regularly as a youngster that your folks made? You can remember only vague details of how it was made, and even what went into it. Then you try to make...
View ArticleWhat's For Dinner v16.23 Do You LOVE To Cook?
I will come clean...I LOVE TO COOK! But (and you knew there would be a but, didn’t you?) I have to write down & refer to my recipes more and more as I age. And the latest is smaller print and...
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What's For Dinner? v16.24 Holidays and Tradition, Dessert Edition
Okay, so this was going to be a dessert diary (which I will still do at some point, probably February), but one of the recipes got me to thinking about food as tradition, especially in the context of...
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What's For Dinner? v16.25: Christmas!
Welcome to the Christmas Day edition of WFD? As you are filling up the corners by nibbling on your favorite dainties, enjoying your favorite beverages, and in general winding down the day, I hope you...
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What's For Dinner? v16.26 - Chicken with Mushrooms
Happy New Year everyone!Here are two takes on a concept that IMO is hard to do wrong. I previously diaried Chicken Fricassee which has mushrooms but is otherwise different.Arnaud’s Breast of Chicken En...
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What’s For Dinner? v16.27: Sunchoke Soup
Sunchokes are the edible tubers of Helianthus tuberosis, a type of sunflower. They resemble ginger root with a knobby texture and thin skin, and have a nutty, sweet flavor. Tonight I’ll do a show and...
View ArticleWhat's For Dinner v16.28 Copycat Hot Sauce
Good evening Y’all, and welcome to another episode of What’s for Dinner! As I may have mentioned here before, I grow a lot of peppers and make my own hot sauce. A few weeks ago, I grabbed a couple of...
View ArticleWhat's For Dinner? v16.29 - Macaroni & Cheese
I’ve tried other Mac+Cheese recipes, including one from Anthony Bourdain, but I like this one. I think it’s using evaporated milk for the sauce that makes the difference. I do like to mix up the...
View ArticleSoup Y'all
Welcome to Street Prophets Thursday Coffee Hour cleverly located at the intersection of religion and politics. I’ve made a lot of soups over the last few years. Reid only had 4 teeth so soups were the...
View ArticleWhat's For Dinner? v16.30: Staying away from Seamless
Note: Seamless refers to seamless.com, a food delivery service operated By GrubHub.Over the last few years, we have tried to cut back on Seamless, and one of the tools we have found invaluable is...
View ArticleWhat's for Dinner? v16.31: Lemons & Tahini Make Chickpeas & Rice A...
Good evening and welcome to What’s for Dinner for another Saturday night of food tips, recipes, questions, and drool-inducing pics!What’s for Dinner? is a Saturday evening get-together where friends...
View ArticleWhat's for Dinner? v16.32: Puddings and Custards and Mousses—Oh, My!
(FYI, the pronunciation of “Mousses” in the title is the same as the singular: <moos>; so the meter still works!)Ah, desserts! I do love them so—almost certainly more than is good for me…....
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What's For Dinner? v16.33 - Cioppino
Cioppino is a seafood stew that originated in the Italian-American fishing community of San Francisco. It resembles other Mediterranean recipes such as Bouillabaisse, with more tomato — and has a...
View ArticleWhat's For Dinner? v.16.34: Slow Cookin'!
The beauty of the slow cooker is in the phrase “set it and forget it”. Invented in 1940 by Irving Nachumsohn (who changed his surname to Naxon) as a way to prepare cholem for Shabbat (we need a WFD on...
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