Aiming for the Perfect Sangria
Posted on November 30, 2006 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Except on some days in the Sun Belt and Hawaii, etc., the weather right now is not exactly right for sangria, but I must confess I’ve always failed miserable in concocting a good version. I bring this up because [...]
Read More..>>Cooking Essential: Campbell’s Soup
Posted on November 29, 2006 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
As I prepared my green bean casserole for Thanksgiving, my last-minute, emergency shopping at the local drug store turned up just a generic brand of condensed cream of mushroom soup, but it worked its magic nonetheless in producing a tasty side dish. The amazing thing is the amazing things that Campbell’s pristine version of Cream [...]
Read More..>>GaGa in France
Posted on November 29, 2006 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
S. Irene Virbila (who she?), the restaurant reviewer for the Los Angeles Times, recently went GaGa in Paris over foods that I wouldn’t eat no matter where they were served, unless I a) wasn’t informed what they were and/or b) didn’t care because I was so famished. The last time I was in the City [...]
Read More..>>Turkey Slumgullion?
Posted on November 27, 2006 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
Okay, so I had never heard of slumgullion (an Irish meat and veggie stew-like substance) until I announced yesterday via e-mail that I was whipping together some turkey chili with leftover fowl and whatever chili-like ingredients I could find in the kitchen. A friend then replied via e-mail that he was making turkey slumgullion, [...]
Read More..>>T-Day Over, the World Awaits
Posted on November 26, 2006 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
I stopped in a Mitsuwa Japanese market the other day and killed some time in the bookstore. There I discovered an incredibly beautiful magazine called Kateigaho. Not cheap, the last two quarterly issues cost me exactly $25 with tax, and now I’m considering a subscription for 7580 yen, which translates to a 100 [...]
Read More..>>Thanksgiving Leftovers
Posted on November 24, 2006 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
I don’t know about you, but my favorite thing to do with leftover turkey from Thanksgiving is to make a sourdough bread sandwich with the white meat smothered in mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and some romaine lettuce and mayo. Many variations abound. Here is a site with a whole host of ideas for [...]
Read More..>>Happy Thanksgiving
Posted on November 23, 2006 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
My final thought: No matter how you cook your main turkey, you have to roast one just to create the perfect dressing. Even if you throw that bird out, the stuffing will live on. I guess a roast turkey with stuffing is the Celine Dion version of
“The Titanic”–it will go on and [...]
Pumpkin, Pumpkin Everywhere
Posted on November 21, 2006 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
A couple of years back, I got this idea to freelance some pumpkin soup for Thanksgiving. I believe I took canned pumpkin and mixed it with chicken broth, but it may have been cream. Anyway, the wife didn’t like it because I put a pinch of nutmeg into it as well.
Payback time! This year I’m [...]
Venison for Thanksgiving
Posted on November 20, 2006 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
Iowa has so many deers that it created a program to kill the excess and feed the hungry. The state’s HUSH (Help Us Stop Hunger) program features in its soup kitchens items such as venison meatballs with spaghetti, venison hamburgers and venison meatloaf. Never having had deer, I can’t say whether this is a good [...]
Read More..>>Pie Happy in 1621?
Posted on November 19, 2006 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
According to PJ of PJ’s Pies, the first Thanksgiving, the 1621 affair, featured some 12 pies filled with various ingredients from sweet to savory. However, PJ must be prejudiced, or a copycat, since his Web site lists exactly 12 sites for sale.
Let’s take him at his word for now. You can read more about those [...]
