I have a variety of hot sauces in the fridge. We are a fan of the show “Hot Ones” (not a sponsor) and one year for Christmas we decided to get all ten sauces from that season and see how bad it was (or were the celebrities just faking it)?…
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Asian Salmon Stack
Since the middle of last year, Dennis and I have been delighted by creating “stacks”. Visually they are very impressive but what we have found is that you can be extremely creative in your choice of ingredients. The very first attempts were built inside of an empty 1 liter bottle…
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Swiss Rabbit à la Karen
This morning we were reading about Ale and stumbled across a recipe for Welsh Rabbit. After a little bit of debate about how it is pronounced (rarebit/rabbit) we looked it up and found that both were correct! On the surface it is basically cheese on toast right? But it is…
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Eggstatic Saturday – From Abalone to Albumen
We decided to try making poached eggs this morning for breakfast. We don’t have any of the poaching gadgets, just planned to swirl the boiling water and drop it in. The first one wasn’t perfect, probably dropped it from a little too high. The second one worked much better but…
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Rum Drink Sample Night
New Years Eve was our “Gin” night (see New Years Eve – Goodbye 2020). Tonight we decided to explore some Rum drinks. So once again Karen took to Pinterest to find some ideas of what to try. Almost every interesting drink she found wanted pineapple juice. But, sadly, pineapple juice…
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Cheesy Swiss & Mushroom Roasted Cauliflower
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New Years Eve-Goodbye 2020!
Aren’t we all glad to see the end of 2020? We didn’t have any New Years Eve plans so decided to just listen to music and explore a few cocktail variations using whatever we had on hand. What shocked me was was that Karen suggested we try some gin drinks! Some…
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Spicy Chicken Stroganoff
When Den picked up the mini bella mushrooms last week he also grabbed a few large portabellas but forgot to tell me. Tonight he said, “Let’s use these.” So I started thinking Chicken Marsala but instead settled on a spicy chicken stroganoff type dish (I guess by now you can…
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I Got Your Side – Barley with Sautéd Mushroom & Onions
Tonight, Karen told me she was going to make Barley. I haven’t had that before and it turns out that she had never cooked it before. In fact, I don’t think I have ever seen it on a restaurant menu either (other than in a barley soup). She looked at…
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Creamy Garlic Sriracha Salmon Salad
I had some avocados that were ripe and needed to be used. Couple that with a craving for salmon and I threw together this salad for tonight’s dinner.