In the kitchen

I had a hankering for chicken & noodles over the weekend. I had a chicken breast thawed, so before starting in on housekeeping Saturday morning, I made some Grandma Blocher-style egg noodles. They dried for a couple of hours whilst I cleaned house. Penzey’s Mural of Flavor seasoning makes chicken & noodles a real joy

Meals

Recent creations in the kitchen on Lawn Place . . . .

Pickles

I am late to the lime pickles this year, but when Roger’s Produce had pickling cucumbers available last Saturday, I grabbed twenty pounds of them and started the nearly-annual process. Monday morning by 8.25 a.m. = 5.5 quarts. Another 5 or more will be cooked up on Wednesday morning. Many of these half-pint and half-cup

Bacon

Summer project: cure and smoke my own bacon. Project completed.

Copycat

I was craving Applebee’s fiesta lime chicken. So I looked up a copycat recipe online. And that led to also making homemade ranch dressing, necessary for making the fiesta lime chicken. The results were pretty much exactly Applebee’s fiesta lime chicken. But next time I’ll use less soy sauce in the marinade, or perhaps just

Sausage

I found some breakfast sausage in the freezer last week, a full pound of it from perhaps a year ago? So breakfast has included sausage patties these last few days. I also had a craving last week for Sugarfire, so made a trek there before a quick Costco run: The hash brown casserole was the

Cooking

Recent adventures in the kitchen:

Stuffed mushrooms

I keep making these stuffed mushrooms, which are so good and so decadent! I make 1/3 of a recipe. https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/julia-childs-stuffed-mushrooms-50062294

In the kitchen

Recent kitchen adventures: A big garden salad for dinner this week, after a cheat day at luncheon: Canned Jonathan apples — a total of three quarts, with more to come this week:

A meal

Wednesday last. Chicken breast in the fridge. Mushrooms too. I needed to use them both up. So I threw together. Created. Concocted. A little chicken, a few mushrooms, dribbles of olive oil, some seasonings and aromatics, and some cream. And marsala wine. And butter. Know-how can take you far!