Cuisine Capers

On a recent evening I stopped by the grocery store on my way home from work, with no idea in mind about what we were going to be having for dinner. I felt like eating healthy, but lean chicken and pork was getting a bit old.
As I passed the fresh fish counter, the filet [...]

Weisse Bohnen Eintopfen
I’ve been away from the Is My Blog Burning events since October, but it’s time to jump back in! IMBB #11: Beans, beans the musical fruit…, hosted by Cathy from My Little Kitchen. This was the perfect theme for the middle of a snowy, cold winter. We tend to make comfort-style food on [...]

Southwestern Chicken with Black Bean Salsa

Pssssssst…..
So, off the record… does the show “Semi-Homemade” on the FoodTV network annoy you as much as it annoys me? Of course it does. And so I am Semi-Embarrassed to admit that this recipe is perfect for that show. On the other hand, I’ve been going into [...]

In a bit of a surprise, Christmas morning dawned with the first snowfall of the season. This first snowfall was unusually late, and fairly welcome, given that the landscaping for our new house is on hold til the spring thaw, and it’s better to look at a blanket of white snow rather than a mud [...]

It is now officially winter in Wisconsin. That statement has nothing to do with what the calendar says, but everything to do with what the thermometer says. Temps in the negative digits, with windchills even worse are enough to convince me.
So it’s time to make dishes not designed for their [...]

With a bag of fresh spinach from my CSA on hand, and only a short amount of time to get dinner ready after work, I swung by the grocery store, picked up some chicken breasts, and planned on a simple, easy and fast dinner for this evening.
There’s a restaurant in town called Louisiannes, Etc. [...]

It’s a raspberry pudding…. it’s a strawberry cake…. it’s… it’s…. Shepherd’s Pie?
Yes, it’s Shepherd’s Pie.
My sister underwent some surgery this week, which left 3 young children at home to fend for themselves. Well, that might be a bit of an exaggeration. It’s rumored that her husband was there somewhere, but all I [...]

When I learned that Jarrett, the brains behind Food Porn Watch, was hosting the latest IMBB #7, “You’re Just The Cutest Little Dumpling” only one question sprang to mind. Is Spaetzle a dumpling? So I googled it and found that there was some debate. Some people feel that Spaetzle is a pasta, some feel that [...]

We don’t grocery shop like most people. We very seldom shop for more than one meal at a time. Because we have our CSA box, in the summer almost any produce we use we already have. If we need tomatoes or peppers we go out to the backyard and pick them. This usually leaves meat [...]

I personally do not like bell peppers. I like just about any other kind of pepper, but there’s something about bell pepper that just rubs me the wrong way. I think it’s genetic - my sister feels the same way.
Of course, the other member of this household LOVES bell peppers. There is a constant [...]