tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42516818336008714082011-04-21T21:59:52.972-04:00Cooking, Eating, Listening, Etc.Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01435528909927715824noreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4251681833600871408.post-10387885258568539262008-12-11T09:51:00.007-05:002008-12-11T19:09:43.728-05:00

So our oldest daughter returned with a huge duffel of clothes which Ann says are clean, which confused me. When I came home from boarding school and college, my huge duffle would walk in the house on its own, the bacteria and dirt mutating into some new life form.Clean laundry versus dirty...one of the many things that differentiates my progeny from myself. She's remarkable in so many ways that I

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Like black beans and rice. Last night I went to Morton's in Tysons Corner and had a fairly good sized reunion with current and former Redskins front office employees. Morton's and the Redskins brings players to the restaurants on Monday nights and this was Tyson's turn. I had a filet which was done perfectly which isn't always the case there. In a stark contrast to my meal last night I opted for

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Be so hard to make well?It embarrasses me to say that I've struggled with one of the most basic dishes one can make. Pasta with olive oil and garlic. I know what you're thinking. Okay, I know what you should be thinking: how can anyone who blogs about cooking admit struggling with a dish that has three, maybe four ingredient in it. Good question. Wait, I know the answer. I'm a fraud. By the way,

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Tonight went well. I found really good looking tuna medallions on sale and decided to build around them. The exciting and risky part of this was I didn't use any recipes so you never know how its going to work out. Tonight it worked out.Main Course: pan-seared tuna with a soy vinegar wasabi sauce.I started off trying to reduce the soy. That was a complete and utter failure. Even using low sodium

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Still under the weather. I made dinner for the girls (minus Ann who has returned to the permafrost of New Hampshire, until Christmas break in two short weeks!).I wasn't in the mood for fancy still feeling like dreck so I went the easy route.Main Course: sausage, onions and pepper over fusilli. I tried something different this time which reduced the cooking effort. First, I cut the sausage (sweet

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I've got nothing to say about Thanksgiving.  Too much food and drink. Too much of everything. Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed being out at the shore. I enjoyed seeing everyone who was there -- some more than others. But I just don't think I'm particularly good company right now and while I am making an effort to "buck up" I'm not sure I am doing a good job of it.Let's move on and talk about food,

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Monday night: We're all pretty excited. Ann is coming home from college tomorrow evening and we're headed to the shore for Thanksgiving. We're having dinner with John and Mary on Tuesday will all the kids which will be extremely nice. From a cooking perspective, I'll be making dinner tonight and that's about it for the week. My involvement with the Thanksgiving dinner is minimal. Debby will lead

Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01435528909927715824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4251681833600871408.post-88617136661058836272008-11-22T10:07:00.008-05:002008-11-24T20:46:36.646-05:00

Debby and I had dinner by ourselves. I took Buddah and two of her friends to BWI earlier in the day to catch a flight to Manchester VT and then a car to NH where they were visiting Ann at college.Mary Douglass had a school dance and dinner before hand so Debby and I had a very relaxing, romantic dinner for two.As previously noted, yesterday I did most of the work on the short ribs.Main Course:

Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01435528909927715824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4251681833600871408.post-78150071854356080092008-11-20T18:38:00.023-05:002008-11-24T20:32:03.610-05:00

Actually, one dinner tonight and a second one made for tomorrow night. At least the main course.It is cold and grey here.  I haven't made short ribs yet, a dish I associate with winter, with the kind of weather we're just starting to see. There were flurries yesterday or the day before. I don't remember. It doesn't matter really. Regardless short ribs were on my mind and while I was at market

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Debby gets home later tonight. I wasn't keen on cooking and didn't go to the market so I used what was in the house.Salad: Wedge with toasted pecans, bacon and roasted pepper left over from last night.Main Course: Pasta with Costco Pesto. Yes, pesto from a jar. The girls love it and it makes dinner incredibly easy. For the record, no post-mortem tonight. What I was listening to: Heroes: Giants of

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Roasted Broccoli: Zero StarsThe broccoli was almost inedible. Too much salt. I need to figure out if I read the recipe wrong. Three possibilities:The recipe calls for too much salt (not likely but possible).I put more salt in than the recipe called for (entirely likely).I didn't put as much broccoli in as the recipe called for (entirely likely).I put more salt in than the recipe called for and 

Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01435528909927715824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4251681833600871408.post-89970999267934655992008-11-18T18:16:00.005-05:002008-11-20T00:12:14.479-05:00

It is Tuesday and Debby's away. The girls have been bugging me to make stuffed chicken breasts. Salad: Iceberg wedge salad with bacon and toasted pecan pieces A perennial favorite. I've started toasting the nuts in the oven rather than on the stove top. Much less maintenance. For pecans, 350 degrees around eight minutes. Bleu cheese dressing (out of the bottle).Side dish: Sautéed Celery Root I

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