Last month I made a pumpkin pie from scratch. (Which turned out surprisingly well!) Actually, that’s not entirely true. I made a pumpkin pie filling from scratch. The crust, however, was of the pre-packaged Pillsbury variety. And it was one of two in the package. So after the one got used in the pumpkin pie, [...]
Nov
19
2008
Bleu Shroom Burgers
Filed under: What's Cooking by jess
I guess I’m more influenced by mass media marketing than I like to think. I remember seeing a commercial for one of those fast-food burger joints advertising their new mushroom Swiss burger, and stating aloud “Mmm. We need to try that one night this week.” Well, tonight turned out to be that night. All the [...]
Nov
17
2008
Pizza Mia!
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Lunch today was some really awesome homemade pizza. We’d found these imitation pepperoni slices during one of our grocery runs a couple of weeks ago, and finally decided to get a pizza crust and try ‘em out.
Ingredients:
1 Pillsbury ready-made pizza crust (It’s in one of those cardboard can thingies that “pops” when you open it).
1 [...]
Nov
17
2008
So What Do You Eat, Anyway?
Filed under: What's Cooking by jess
The above quip is courtesy of my younger sister’s boyfriend. (Who, apparently, doesn’t understand that fruits and veggies and — ohmigod — pasta are foods too.)
And so, I figure one way to make good use of this blog is to post some awesome recipes as I try them out. I love to cook and I [...]
Pumpkins!
Filed under: Fun, What's Cooking by jess
So last month when Walt & I went to the pumpkin stand to pick out some likely jack-o-lantern candidates, we also decided to get a couple of the smaller “pie pumpkins”, because I wanted to try my hand at making a from-scratch pumpkin pie. The pie didn’t turn out too badly, and the jack-o-lanterns turned [...]
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