Making this soup the other day required deboning a rotisserie chicken in front of a rapt audience of four dogs. They sat two to my left and two to my right, about 150 total pounds of canines quivering with the effort of self-control, their silent yearning palpable: Oh, please, please, drop the bird. They behaved…
Tag: dinner
Meatloaf Pucks
I really tried to think of a better name for this delicious entrée, but Meatloaf Pucks just seems appropriate. Obviously, marketing is not my forté. As a liberal arts major, I never set foot in the UALR** business building during college days. But God has a sense of humor, so he surrounded me in life with…
Roasted Turkey Legs with Sage Salt
First born got a haircut recently. So did Kita. Some of my herbs got sheared, too. The pile of sage leaves went into an herb/salt blend to flavor roasted turkey legs. It’s a recipe I made at the request of my daughter, from a paleo lifestyle cookbook she bought in support of her interest in…
Chicken in Wine Sauce
This recipe is for the day when your hair is on fire. For when you drive 19 miles to the strawberry farm to buy fruit for making jam, and the berries are so ripe you must start rinsing and hulling the minute you get home, before decay sets in. For when you have 10 pounds…
Broccoli-Cheese Soup
Soup doesn’t have to be seasonal, and by the looks of things in my state, neither does the weather. Snow fell over parts of Arkansas this morning in amounts never recorded before this late in the year. The wet chill in my backyard is confusing the hummingbirds and causing the dogs to make nests out…
Shrimp and Basil Pasta
I keep a couple of bags of shrimp in the freezer just so I can make this recipe on days I’m trying to avoid the grocery store, like senior citizen discount Tuesdays. I also make it because it’s so good. Now, to produce this on a whim requires just a little forethought, which takes some…
Cheese-Stuffed Pasta Shells
This dish is proof that if a parent who enjoys cooking good food waits long enough, her picky-eating kids turn into humans. They also turn into tax-paying grown women who color their hair, gripe about gas prices, live for good bike weather, and prefer Midori Sours to red wine. Sometimes they get proverbs tattooed on…
Vegetable Soup
What’s good to eat on a cold day? Steamy vegetable soup. What’s good to eat on a cold day after having a root canal? This puréed vegetable soup. It’s soothing, nutritious, and delicious, whether you can feel your gums or not. And a bowlful requires no chewing, unless you serve it with a rustic, toothsome…
Pancetta Mashed Potatoes
This is my friend J. He’s out of his comfort zone here, wearing an apron in a cooking class and brandishing a ricer. The kitchen is not his natural habitat, and yet here he’s making a dish of creamy potatoes flavored with mascarpone cheese and butter that will be the best-tasting thing produced from a…
Ham and Green Pepper Quiche
I was a quiche-making dynamo on Thursday. Once a month, I cook lunch for a special group of people, about 24 in number, who are either clients or volunteers at a weekly respite care program. I call it my own Third Thursday Café. Everyone there is connected by the scourge of dementia in some form…
Cookbook Wall 