Are you sick of lamb yet? Well, I certainly am not, even though last week was kind of over-lambed for us.  Yet I keep coming back for more.  Today I found a neat little recipe for Cawl — a traditional Welsh hearty soup, typically made with beef or mutton on a bone and whatever seasonal […]

As you may already know from my previous post, I had a bit of a lamb surplus this week. Since we are counting carbs, making our family’s favorite  — plov  — is out of question, so I had to come up with something else.  Being in the middle of clay pot cooking streak, I wanted to […]

In search of some new ways of using lamb — we had a surplus of it this week — I found a neat recipe here. It seemed fairly straight-forward and sounded very promising, although no picture was provided. Who posts recipes without pictures these days, I wonder.  In hindsight, I probably shouldn’t have attempted it […]

Today is going to be just a quick post. No nostalgic ramblings, no gastronomical musings, no pseudo-scientific reports.  This dish is effortless.  I did no research, no recipe comparison, no option evaluation. All I did was — chop and load, chop and load. Shocked? Me, too!

It’s cold out there… Well, it’s cold out there somewhere other than Alabama. I scroll through my Facebook timeline and see posts of my remote friends about freezing cold, and knee deep snow, and I want to be there with them.  I love snow.  I want to be cold, curl up on the couch all […]

Just wanted to put in a quick post this time.  Every time I cook something from Julia Child’s collection of recipes, I am amazed. I read through the ingredient list, glance over the instructions, and I swear, every time I have the same feeling: what’s so special about it? You see those five, six ingredients […]

Remember that feeling when you come from the market and realize you just overbought something? And we aren’t talking onions or potatoes. These things will keep forever if you store them right. I am talking fish. Yes, the king of all perishables, none other!  Ok, maybe I am the only one that does that (yeah, […]