Posts Tagged ‘anna likes to cook

One of the fun parts about being gluten intolerant is that restaurants become a game of roulette. Even restaurants with “gluten free menu items” frequently screw that up, and I’ve gotten croutons on my gluten free salad before (after a specific request for no croutons). Salad dressings are a gamble – even vinaigrettes, if they’re [...]

Whiskey Beef Stew

In: kitchen

6 Nov 2011

Quick, easy, delicious slow-cooker beef stew. It’s not a hugely exact recipe, but I’ll do my best! You need: 2 lbs of stew meat (or 2 lbs of cheap beef roast, cut in chunks) 1/2 lb mushrooms – I usually use cremini or shitake – cut into chunks 1/2 lb carrots – cut into slices. [...]

Kadomi, on twitter, was asking about good recipes to use with fresh jalapenos (no surprise, since the heat and drought in the southwest this year will definitely produce a bumper crop of hot peppers). I’m going to be making my favorite Apricot Jalapeno jam (that I use as Christmas gifts), but this recipe for stuffed [...]

*crossposted (from awhile ago) from Seven Deadly Divas* This is a good “weeknight” recipe – you can put the frozen fish in the fridge the night before (please put it in a bowl, so you don’t have thawing fish goo all over your fridge) and it’ll be thawed when you go to make it. Or, [...]


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