It’s been unseasonably cold here at Chateau Right for the last week or so, most notably a couple of mornings ago when the thermometer on the North side of the house gleefully reported that it was 9F (-13C) outside when I crawled out of my nice warm bed. So I’ve broken out some of my… Continue reading Friday Food and Drink Post: Brrrr! Chili!
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Friday Food and Drink Post: Cultural Appropriation Edition
The topic for this week was inspired by the following fine paragraph from this Ricochet post on September 25, 2019 about the media meltdown surrounding Donald Trump’s phone call with the President of Ukraine. (Whatever his name is. “Z” something. Just like me): Why not speculate on a different hypothetical situation? “The whistleblower says the… Continue reading Friday Food and Drink Post: Cultural Appropriation Edition
Friday Food and Drink Post: Have Your (War) Cake and Eat It, Too
To commemorate the 74th anniversary of V-J Day on August 15, herewith, a couple of family recipes for War Cake a more-or-less appetizing (de gustibus, and all that) sop to the sweet tooth of the war-weary denizens from the Old and New Worlds. One is from 1942 and was shared with me by a friend in the… Continue reading Friday Food and Drink Post: Have Your (War) Cake and Eat It, Too
Friday Food and Drink Post: What’s Bread in the Bone …
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!–The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam I love bread. Over the years I’ve tried a great many sorts and a great many methods of baking my own.… Continue reading Friday Food and Drink Post: What’s Bread in the Bone …
Friday Food and Drink Post: All in the Family
Perhaps it’s the sight of Harry and Meghan with their bundle of joy that’s got me thinking about a long-gone and long-running television program, or perhaps I’ve reached that stage in my life where I enjoy reliving my youth, I don’t know. I did see that his parents have eschewed any sort of title for… Continue reading Friday Food and Drink Post: All in the Family
Friday Food and Drink Post: Bon Appetit aux Hommes et Femmes!
History claims that the first “modern” restaurant was opened by one Monsieur A. Boulanger, sometime in the middle of the eighteenth century, and somewhere in Paris, where his small establishment served, mainly, soup to the middle classes. Although the tradition is robust, extensive research has never actually turned up any proof of his, or of… Continue reading Friday Food and Drink Post: Bon Appetit aux Hommes et Femmes!
Friday Food and Drink Post: I’m in a Stew
Well, Spring is making an effort, but today is gray, and cold and wet, and I think I’d like a good bowl of some sort of comfort food for dinner tonight. I vote for stew! According to Wikipedia, (we’ll start there) stew is defined as follows: A stew is a combination of solid food ingredients… Continue reading Friday Food and Drink Post: I’m in a Stew
Friday Food and Drink Post: Just Desserts
We all know what they are. They are what we want for ourselves and for everyone we know, friend and foe alike, right? When we get ours, we expect them to come trailing clouds of goodness, mercy, and grace, and to bestrew puppies, butterflies, rainbows and joy throughout our lives forever. When our enemies, and… Continue reading Friday Food and Drink Post: Just Desserts
Friday Food and Drink Post: Soupçon!
I love almost any kind of soup: Thick soup, thin soup, vegetable soup, meat soup, cold soup, hot soup, clear soup, cream soup, soup with “bits” in it, smooth soup. Soup is great. A bowl of steaming chowder on a frosty day, a dish of chilled fruit soup in midsummer. Croutons. Garlic bread. Oyster crackers.… Continue reading Friday Food and Drink Post: Soupçon!