Oh, what a rare find from a local antique store. To read the recipes, just view the original with extra pictures. I must confess, another side of me that I’m just sharing is my love of antiquing. Each antique store is like exploring a free museum chock full of treasures. When I pick out…
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New Years Eve Dinner – Smoked Beef Tenderloin
We had eight of our closest friends at our home to celebrate and ring in the New Year. Cocktail and appetizer hour started at 7pm and dinner was ready to serve an hour and half later. The twice baked potatoes were prepared the day prior and were ready to place in the oven for the final…
Drunkin Shrimp with Mushrooms
12 ounces gemelli pasta (or any other desired pasta) Three-quarter medium-size onion chopped 4 cups sliced mushrooms One cube unsalted butter 1 tablespoon salt 1/4 teaspoon ground pepper 1/2 half cup Crown Royal Whiskey® 1 cup water, white wine or chicken broth Two extra-large vegetable bouillon cubes 1/4 cup flour and water for thickening 1 pound cooked…
A Cabin Called Iron Works – Two Butt Kitchen
Before, during and after building the kitchen for Iron Works. Building and creating a compact two butt kitchen for the cabin was a challenging experience with multiple mind-boggling puzzles to solve. The best laid plans can sometimes have minor quirks and ours had several. More importantly, though, every headache was worth the end result. One…
Lidia’s Italy – Sole Meunier
My good friend who lives in Toronto, sent me this recipe to share on KCinAZ Cooks. She’s vegetarian and does find some great ideas. It looks absolutely delicious and I couldn’t resist posting it up. OMG, it’s got wine in it. If it were my recipe I would have to call it Drunkin’ Sole Meunier. From Lidia’s Website…
BigOven Review
BigOven is by far my favorite online cooking application. Now I’m even more thrilled with it since they have implemented several great updates to the site. I began using BigOven in 2004 when I tired of trying to work with an outdated recipe collection program called Master Cook which has recently had an update too. One…
Timing is Everything by Jack Piccolo
If I only had one cookbook in my library it would be “Timing is Everything by Jack Piccolo”. There are no pictures and it doesn’t really have any recipes but it’s the best cookbook around for reference. Want to know how long to cook the tuna in my “Drunkin Yellow Fin Tuna” or the Beef…
MasterCook 14 Review
09/20/2014: MasterCook now has a Cookbooks Store where you can get a choice of three cookbooks and two other cookbooks that are nominally priced. I look forward to seeing more additions to the selection. Students and Teachers for a limited time can MasterCook for free. Lucky them. MasterCook now has their own Blog. This may…