Dwayne’s Chess Pie

Dwayne’s Chess Pie

Dwayne’s Chess Pie Dwayne sent me this recipe. He served it for Mother’s Day.   Ingredients – 2 cups white sugar – 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour – 5 eggs – 2/3 cup buttermilk – 1/2 cup melted butter – 1 teaspoon...

Soup, Stock, and Beans

Soup, Stock, and Beans Just about every week, I make up a big batch of stock; mainly for Sherry’s lunches. (She usually takes a home-made turkey-vegetable soup with her to work every day.) I also use the stock for cooking beans and peas, etc.   A couple of...

Oven Braised Spinach

Oven Braised Spinach Sherry loves her vegetables, and I love cooking them for her. I had one of those big bags of prewashed spinach; a bunch of asparagus, and some mushrooms. I was baking some banana bread anyway, so I popped my spinach into the wok; tossed it with...

Sweet Potato Crust and Quiche

Sweet Potato Crust and Quiche Sherry loves this sort of thing!   Ingredients: 2 medium sweet potatoes 1 teaspoon canola oil 1 (5-ounce) bag baby spinach 1/2 cup 1% low-fat milk 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1/4 teaspoon crushed...

Stock, Soup, Crock Pots

Stock, Soup, Crock Pots I found a 6 quart slow-cooker at Target for $24.99. With 6 quarts, I could make some pretty big batches of stock; eh? I gave it a try. To around 4 pounds of turkey neck bones I added onion, garlic, carrots, and celery, and 2 quarts of water....

Alaska Cod Florentine

Alaska Cod Florentine In looking for ways to cook fish from its frozen state, I came across this one. Also I did another post on cooking cod from frozen (with a video).  Interesting stuff.  What I wanted to take away from that recipe at Wild Alaskan Seafood is the way...