“Pain de viande” Meat loaf in any language is still just as yummy!

Marion and her sister over at  “She said, she said“  have been writing about nostalgic/comfort food such as tuna casserole and meat loaf.  Well, that got me to hankering after meatloaf, so, what’s a gal to do but whip up a little “pain de viande” (everything sounds tres chic in French, doesn’t it?).  I leapt in [...]

Weekday Roast Chicken dinner, from inkling to plate in under an hour

So not having dinner planned the other night, I ran across a whole chicken marked way down in price at the supermarket.  I decided there and then that I would make a roast chicken for dinner.  The usual problem with roast chicken? — you want to eat before 9:00 at night, but you want your chicken [...]

Of bread and baking…and messy looking dinners!

Most of the bread I have been making lately has been of the Artisan type — large crumb structure with big holes, very crusty exterior.  Not everyone in the house is as enamoured of this type, preferring “fluffy” bread, so I have been trying out different recipes for sandwich type loaves.

A couple of days ago, I [...]

I heart Short Ribs

We are having friends for dinner, so decided to make short ribs — on sale at the supermarket.  We are lucky to have a number of independent grocery chains here, so have lots of competition among supermarkets.  Even so, one of the grocery chains tends to stock more standard cuts of meat, whereas the other caters [...]

You want me to put baking powder… where?!?!

So in the latest issue of Cooks Illustrated, there is a recipe for Swedish meatballs, that i though was somewhat intriguing.  It starts much like my usual recipe for meatballs, except at one point it calls for you to put in a small amout of baking powder, and then beat the heck out of the ground [...]