Calling Out For Kale Recipes

I’m looking for ways to cook kale.
I got a bunch of flowering kale in my veggie bin this week, and it’s absolutely beautiful, but outside of my culinary expertise. Who knew ornamental cabbages were edible? In a quick google search I found lots of kale recipes, and they all boil down to (haha) steaming it [...]

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Fabulous Family Feast

Making ravioli was trickier than I thought it would be. It took us hours. Mostly because of ineptitude with the dough squeezer flattener. The dough kept ripping and getting all bunched up in the machine, and we had to throw out a batch or two until we sorted out the correct ratio of flour/water/oil for [...]

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Thanks, Tom

I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
~Thomas Edison
 
Case in point. Sweet potato fries do not work when baked at 400°F for an hour in my oven. They burn. And waste 15 minutes of peeling/chopping time. And make the house really smoky.

 
But, Mr. Edison, you would be happy to know [...]

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What’s For Dinner?

I know about the fires in California, and the plight of the Burmese monks, but even so, my mind is on this particular issue. Probably because I can be a little “me-centric”, and it affects me directly.
When I’m deciding what to make for dinner, I’m like the rest of the world (oops, that just demonstrated my insensitivity. [...]

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Apprentice Chefs

 
Operation Ogre Mother is underway.
 L prepared a lovely sheperd’s pie today, and R made his first lasagna a few days ago. All well and good.
The only hitch is that it doesn’t actually save me time in the kitchen. I have to be there for every step, and each step takes a lot longer than when [...]

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