Chicken Vegetable Soup

Chicken Vegetable Soup I usually buy a couple of family-packs of leg quarters, boil up the chicken; debone the chicken; then make a stock from the bones. Then, after all that is done, I get around to putting together the pot of soup. Yesterday, though, I decided to...

Music Links

Music Links Realizing that I’d had so much fun viewing so many different music items on the web, I began to wonder where all of those links were; and I hoped that I could preserve them. They are scattered all over a variety of book marks on several different...

Oatmeal Cookies

Oatmeal Cookies Sherry mentioned that  her boss is having a birthday tomorrow; so I’m thinking of a treat. I’m not much on desserts, but this looks easy. I saw the recipe on the inside of the lid of a box of Quaker Oats. Vanishing Oatmeal Raisin Cookies...

Collard Greens with Rutabaga

Collard Greens with Rutabaga I went to the Foodarama today with the  thought of cooking up some chicken-vegetable soup for Sherry’s lunches next week. I love to browse around the market; see what looks good; mull over my choices; then change my mind three or...

Easter Dinner!

Easter Dinner! Sam had to work so we didn’t make big plans for dinner; but then he called and said he’d “like to drop by for a while,” and of course he suggested dinner would be nice. Fortunately the stores were still open (Foodarama had...

Seared Ahi Tuna

Seared Ahi Tuna Our neighbor, Chef Joel St. John, treats us now and then to his wonderful cooking. Almost as good, is he sometimes treats us to some of his ingredients and lets us do the cooking. (Not that he didn’t volunteer to cook for us; he did.) This time,...