Each sticky note represents a recipe I want to try. I've decided to cook through this excellent book, as a winter cooking project. Right now, I have one of the Boston Public Library's copies. I will add a copy to my cookbook collection. I have to decide, as I work with it, if I need the Kindle or print edition.
Do you have a winter cooking project or a cookbook you should pull out and cook your way through?
First up was this quick, easy lunch of Tuna Salad with Fennel, Apple, and Parsley. Ed and I love the flavor twist and lighter notes from the fennel and apple that offset the heavier tuna flavor.
Working from home can be dangerous to your waistline, unless you're careful about snacks. At about three every afternoon, we both need a little pick-me-up.
Our snack of choice is fruit. Some days it's just an apple. But, when our fruit basket is full of delicious ripe berries and peaches, they will make an appearance.
Occasionally, when the cheese drawer has a perfect match like this cheddar, a bit of cheese will join the party.
We have added fruit to our cheese trays over the years and now have quite a few favorite combinations like these bits of brie with figs.
When the stone fruit season is at its height, it can be fun to taste the contrasts. On this plate we had a sweet, luscious Saturn peach, a tart apricot, and a plum that was right in the middle of the other two on the sweet/tart scale.
The blueberries were on the plate to add color. We eat with our eyes and the contrast makes the plate of healthy fruit as attractive as a fancy and high-calorie fruit tart.
Working from home can be dangerous to your waistline, unless you're careful about snacks. At about three every afternoon, we both need a little pick-me-up.
Our snack of choice is fruit. Some days it's just an apple. But, when our fruit basket is full of delicious ripe berries and peaches, they will make an appearance.
Occasionally, when the cheese drawer has a perfect match like this cheddar, a bit of cheese will join the party.
We have added fruit to our cheese trays over the years and now have quite a few favorite combinations like these bits of brie with figs.
When the stone fruit season is at its height, it can be fun to taste the contrasts. On this plate we had a sweet, luscious Saturn peach, a tart apricot, and a plum that was right in the middle of the other two on the sweet/tart scale.
The blueberries were on the plate to add color. We eat with our eyes and the contrast makes the plate of healthy fruit as attractive as a fancy and high-calorie fruit tart.
Once you master the technique of making a stir fry, you can take that cooking method out of Asian cuisine and apply it to another culture.
Kielbasa, cabbage, and apple stir-fry.
One of my favorite cool weather stir fries is this one with cabbage, kielbasa, apple, and onion. A bit of apple cider creates a broth. Some garlic, juniper, and mustard seeds add some spice.
Where will you take your stir fry skills? Do you toss together a dish that is basically a stir fry but is inspired by a culture other than Asian? Please, share your ideas with us.
The pan in this photo has become the work horse of my kitchen during the past year. It just fits our cooking-for-two lifestyle. It's the All-Clad Stainless Steel 4 Quart Essential Pan with Lid. It works for stir fries, soups, and stews.
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Once you master the technique of making a stir fry, you can take that cooking method out of Asian cuisine and apply it to another culture.
Kielbasa, cabbage, and apple stir-fry.
One of my favorite cool weather stir fries is this one with cabbage, kielbasa, apple, and onion. A bit of apple cider creates a broth. Some garlic, juniper, and mustard seeds add some spice.
Where will you take your stir fry skills? Do you toss together a dish that is basically a stir fry but is inspired by a culture other than Asian? Please, share your ideas with us.
The pan in this photo has become the work horse of my kitchen during the past year. It just fits our cooking-for-two lifestyle. It's the All-Clad Stainless Steel 4 Quart Essential Pan with Lid. It works for stir fries, soups, and stews.
Note on Comments: We monitor comments constantly and anything that is pure spam, inappropriate, or nasty is swept away. In addition to readers' comments, we welcome hearing from the people, places, and services we cover. Often, those add great insights for our readers. As long as it doesn’t become a pure ad, we’d love to hear from you. We do reserve the right to edit ads and links out of comments.
Once you master the technique of making a stir fry, you can take that cooking method out of Asian cuisine and apply it to another culture.
Kielbasa, cabbage, and apple stir-fry.
One of my favorite cool weather stir fries is this one with cabbage, kielbasa, apple, and onion. A bit of apple cider creates a broth. Some garlic, juniper, and mustard seeds add some spice.
Where will you take your stir fry skills? Do you toss together a dish that is basically a stir fry but is inspired by a culture other than Asian? Please, share your ideas with us.
The pan in this photo has become the work horse of my kitchen during the past year. It just fits our cooking-for-two lifestyle. It's the All-Clad Stainless Steel 4 Quart Essential Pan with Lid. It works for stir fries, soups, and stews.
Note on Comments: We monitor comments constantly and anything that is pure spam, inappropriate, or nasty is swept away. In addition to readers' comments, we welcome hearing from the people, places, and services we cover. Often, those add great insights for our readers. As long as it doesn’t become a pure ad, we’d love to hear from you. We do reserve the right to edit ads and links out of comments.
Gather all those user's manuals that came with your new cameras, games, appliances, computers, etc. and send them to "The Cloud." With the ease of use of cloud computing, there is no reason to rely on paper copies of instructions.
If we were to carry the paper copies of our camera manuals with us on photo shoots and trips, it would add 1 lb 12 oz to our luggage. Besides, we still might not have them with us when we have a question or have the time to explore and learn more about the many options this equipment offers.
Here's our user's manual procedure:
Download a copy of the manual from the manufacturer's site and save it as a PDF. (We normally download and review a user's manual before we buy a product. You'd be amazed how often this makes a difference in what we buy.)
Upload the PDF to Google Drive, iCloud, or Dropbox. We use Google Drive and Dropbox all day long so they're our choice for manuals.
Pack away the physical manual in case we ever want to sell the item.
Enjoy having our manual available anywhere, anytime via our computers, phones, or tablets.
Bonus tip: Before you recycle a box that an item came in, take a photo of the label that contains the barcode, serial number, and model information codes and send that to the cloud. It can come in handy in case of a recall, loss, or theft.
It's usually months after using a new camera or computer that a quick look through the manual has one of us suddenly exploring a new option or trying out an alternative setting. This way we can explore the manuals while waiting for an appointment, sitting on a park bench, or at home.
Opening a Dropbox account from here is another way to support this site.
If you sign up from this Dropbox link, Dropbox will give both you and us bonus storage space. You can sign up for a free account to try it out, and you'll start with 2GB plus your bonus.
We understand that it also works well on the PC side of the computing fence. Dropbox has received rave reviews from The Economist, Forbes, and Wired. And the service has been given major awards by MacWorld and PC Magazine.
Gather all those user's manuals that came with your new cameras, games, appliances, computers, etc. and send them to "The Cloud." With the ease of use of cloud computing, there is no reason to rely on paper copies of instructions.
If we were to carry the paper copies of our camera manuals with us on photo shoots and trips, it would add 1 lb 12 oz to our luggage. Besides, we still might not have them with us when we have a question or have the time to explore and learn more about the many options this equipment offers.
Here's our user's manual procedure:
Download a copy of the manual from the manufacturer's site and save it as a PDF. (We normally download and review a user's manual before we buy a product. You'd be amazed how often this makes a difference in what we buy.)
Upload the PDF to Google Drive, iCloud, or Dropbox. We use Google Drive and Dropbox all day long so they're our choice for manuals.
Pack away the physical manual in case we ever want to sell the item.
Enjoy having our manual available anywhere, anytime via our computers, phones, or tablets.
Bonus tip: Before you recycle a box that an item came in, take a photo of the label that contains the barcode, serial number, and model information codes and send that to the cloud. It can come in handy in case of a recall, loss, or theft.
It's usually months after using a new camera or computer that a quick look through the manual has one of us suddenly exploring a new option or trying out an alternative setting. This way we can explore the manuals while waiting for an appointment, sitting on a park bench, or at home.
Opening a Dropbox account from here is another way to support this site.
If you sign up from this Dropbox link, Dropbox will give both you and us bonus storage space. You can sign up for a free account to try it out, and you'll start with 2GB plus your bonus.
We understand that it also works well on the PC side of the computing fence. Dropbox has received rave reviews from The Economist, Forbes, and Wired. And the service has been given major awards by MacWorld and PC Magazine.
Gather all those user's manuals that came with your new cameras, games, appliances, computers, etc. and send them to "The Cloud." With the ease of use of cloud computing, there is no reason to rely on paper copies of instructions.
If we were to carry the paper copies of our camera manuals with us on photo shoots and trips, it would add 1 lb 12 oz to our luggage. Besides, we still might not have them with us when we have a question or have the time to explore and learn more about the many options this equipment offers.
Here's our user's manual procedure:
Download a copy of the manual from the manufacturer's site and save it as a PDF. (We normally download and review a user's manual before we buy a product. You'd be amazed how often this makes a difference in what we buy.)
Upload the PDF to Google Drive, iCloud, or Dropbox. We use Google Drive and Dropbox all day long so they're our choice for manuals.
Pack away the physical manual in case we ever want to sell the item.
Enjoy having our manual available anywhere, anytime via our computers, phones, or tablets.
Bonus tip: Before you recycle a box that an item came in, take a photo of the label that contains the barcode, serial number, and model information codes and send that to the cloud. It can come in handy in case of a recall, loss, or theft.
It's usually months after using a new camera or computer that a quick look through the manual has one of us suddenly exploring a new option or trying out an alternative setting. This way we can explore the manuals while waiting for an appointment, sitting on a park bench, or at home.
Opening a Dropbox account from here is another way to support this site.
If you sign up from this Dropbox link, Dropbox will give both you and us bonus storage space. You can sign up for a free account to try it out, and you'll start with 2GB plus your bonus.
We understand that it also works well on the PC side of the computing fence. Dropbox has received rave reviews from The Economist, Forbes, and Wired. And the service has been given major awards by MacWorld and PC Magazine.
Poached chicken is something you will often find in our refrigerator, especially when we're busy. It doesn't take long to poach a whole bird, chicken parts on the bone, or boneless chicken. You can poach it in water and aromatic vegetables. But for the bonus of a super rich chicken stock, start with a low-sodium chicken broth.
Here are a link for learning how to poach a chicken. I use the Chinese White Chicken method.
Once cooked, you can turn the chicken and broth into chicken soup. Here's how we deal with that option. Variations on a Soup theme
Of course, you or your household guests could turn sliced chicken into a wonderful array of chicken sandwiches. We recommend you grab a loaf of When Pigs Fly Bakery's "Savory Cranberry" bread, or as we call it, "Stuffing Bread." It tastes just like a favorite holiday bread stuffing and makes a great sandwich with some swiss cheese, chicken, and a dab of spicy cranberry chutney.
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Then, there are salads. We're not mayo fans, so we turn our poached chicken into a Curried Chicken Salad with an oil and vinegar dressing. But, traditional chicken salad may be exactly what your family will welcome.
And, from there, you can let your imagination fly. Stir fry some veggies and toss in the chicken to warm it. Heat up some pasta sauce and make a quick chicken sauce.
We even make poached chicken for our favorite pup when she's not feeling peckish and we need to tempt her with something special. She loves it.
. It works for stir fries, soups, and stews.
is perfect for poaching chicken.