Weekends in the Kitchen and Beyond
It was my son’s birthday and his request for dinner was lamb. Well, really, lamb chops. To teach a lesson in economy and compromise, we got a leg of lamb instead. Gone are the days when chicken soup was his favorite! Because the day was dedicated to making the birthday cake (and all the other […]
I was exploring down home, country-style French cooking and came across this traditional dish for boiled chicken. You might think that it is really just chicken soup, with the chicken cooked whole instead of cut up. I admit that it has the appearance of chicken soup, but the flavor suggests something a little more, not […]
So you’ve gotten an invitation for an elegant, standing room only party and have been asked to contribute a cold appetizer. I suppose little sandwiches are an option. I haven’t quite mastered elegant sandwiches though. Jumbo shrimp? I might need to break open the piggy-bank for that one. What to do? If you want to […]
All-in-one pot dishes bring back not-so-lovely memories from my childhood of picking at stringy, dry meat slathered in a piquant sauce. Yes, meat can be dry and nearly inedible even if swimming in sauce–or at least that is how I looked at it when my three-foot-high-self was forced to deal with eating some sort of […]
My daughter had an interesting history project learning about the Polish hussars. They were an elite regimen in the Polish cavalry in the Crown Kingdom of Poland between the 16th and 18th centuries. It was actually exiled Hungarians who introduced hussar horsemen to the Polish military. At first, the regiments were small and only made up […]