Chicken/pork rub

Oh look, two recipes in one day! (you might even see a third if I am up for it) This recipe is by far the one I’ve used the most in the past two weeks. I got the base somewhere off allrecipes and then mangled it to be ours. And honestly, I haven’t made it [...]

Beef Stir Fry – urb inspired

I don’t often make recipes from use real butter, and I’m not sure why. But I do regularly check out her posts for inspiration, often times combine useful techniques or flavor combinations with what I have on hand, or what I know we like. This was the case with dinner tonight. Beef stir fry – [...]

Broiled lamb arm chops

I know I’ve said it before, and I should say it again to remind myself, but I really shouldn’t buy lamb arm chops. The ones we got this time weren’t very fatty, but there just isn’t a lot of meat on them, and one of them, the center bone was huge. But at least they [...]

Chinese style ribs

I’m home sick today with some sort of upper respiratory viral infection. I thought it was my allergies, being as I ran out of my normal antihistamine Saturday and thought it a wise idea to use up the back store I had of less than ideal antihistamine. So when I got a sore throat, I [...]

Chicken with salsa verde

We got 16″ of snow in the past day or so, most of it last night. Campus was closed today. The buses weren’t running. Even government offices weren’t open. While I’m sure we could have made it in to campus, we chose not to. Instead, we dug the car out and moved it to the [...]

Asian inspired herb roasted pork

The was good, and is likely on our make again list. But I’ll probably tweek it further next time. I couldn’t really taste the sage over the glaze, though I LOVED the glaze. In fact, the glaze is pretty damn close to the recipe we use for our sesame chicken (which I still need to [...]

Lamb chops with Balsamic sauce

I’m a fan of lamb. I like the general texture of it. I like the taste. But I’m not fond of the price tag in the grocery store. Thankfully Bucky Butchery usually has various cuts of lamb, all reasonably priced. So I get to have my lamb fix on my graduate student stipend. Weeee!!! Lamb [...]

Spring egg rolls – WIP

This spring/egg roll recipe is definitely a work in progress. These were definitely edible (as I’ve already eaten 3), but they need some work. This is partly the recipe base I used, and partly because I made do with what was on hand. Next time? Ground lamb is a bit too gamy for this, definitely [...]

Fish Kabayaki and sweet potato latkes

I would call this salmon kabayaki, but I didn’t actually use salmon. I used some other pink/salmon colored fish which I no longer remember the name of. About the only place I trust around here to get ‘fresh’ fish is Whole Foods, and salmon was well out of any price range I was willing to [...]

Lamb shoulder roast

Here’s the lamb recipe I mentioned the other day. This came out DIVINE. The ManBeast said it was a make again and I concurred. The lamb shoulder roast even came from Bucky Butchery. While I’m not sure I want to make lamb shoulder roast again, I will use this general recipe for future cuts of [...]

Bucky’s Butchery

I hesitate to write this post. Because doing so means the place may get more business. And then I’ll have to share. And I don’t like sharing good bacon. I want it all to myself. But when the bacon email goes out, I get there early and I buy in quantity (probably more next time). [...]

Chicken/turkey stock

Winter is to me, officially here. I’ve had to start super wrapping my scarf, instead of casually just slinging it around my neck, to go outside in the morning. I also need to bring out my real winter hat. Thankfully my winter coat pockets are fleece lined, so my pansy ass gloves are still fine. [...]

Chicken enchiladas with mole negro

Seems like the ManBeast and I may be coming down with something. I’ve been fighting some sort of chest/sinus ick since the week before Halloween, but the post nasal drip has kicked it up a notch and my body is just feeling tired. Not good. I also didn’t realize that Thanksgiving is NEXT WEEK. I’ve [...]

Easy chili

Ok, and to balance my last post that was likely completely irrelevant to many of you and having honestly little to do with this blog other than me having space to vent, here’s a recipe. For me, this is one of those recipes that I don’t even normally think about and is why I haven’t [...]

Dinner, now with pictures!

This time, I actually remembered to try to take pictures both before AND after cooking my dinner! I was on my own for dinner tonight, so I decided to embellish a little bit and make myself something nice. Here’s what I started with (ok, well, most of the ingredients): I picked up a 0.8 lb [...]