Masoor Dal (Spicy Red Lentils)by Kim PatrieFrom the book The Best of India, A Cookbook, by Balraj KhannaPublished by CollinsPublishersSanFrancisco, 1993 Kim is one of my belly dancing buddies (yes, I have more than one). We originally “met” via an online unschooling forum. She and a couple of others from that group then came to…
Menu Monday ~ January 21, 2013
Click here or here for more menu ideas! Monday:Today I am participating in an event sponsored by our city’s Multicultural Committee in honor of MLK day. We are meeting at the university at 8:30 a.m. (yikes!) and then the volunteers will be fanning out across town to pick up litter. It is supposed to be…
Menu Monday ~ January 14, 2013
Click here or here for more menu ideas! I have meetings on Monday and Thursday evenings so I’m planning ahead for those. For tonight – Monday – I’ve already boiled the chicken carcass, strained the broth and picked off the meat. I’ll probably go ahead and prep the carrots and potatoes before I go, and…
Menu Monday ~ January 7, 2013
Click here or here for more menu ideas! This month I’ll be planning meals around what we have stuffed in our pantry and freezer. I don’t think I could get one more thing in our deep freeze so it’s time to start eating from its contents! I only plan to purchase fresh dairy and produce…
Menu Monday ~ July 16, 2012
Click here for more menu ideas! This is shaping up to be another busy week. I’m going to Oklahoma City Wednesday, have a meeting Thursday evening, a fundraiser Friday, wedding and party on Saturday, and our air conditioning unit is being replaced at some point this week. I also have plans to go swimming at…
Menu Monday ~ July 2, 2012
Click here for more menu ideas! I want to start putting up some summer produce so my plan the next couple of weeks is to make an effort to use things from the freezer. I need room for corn on the cob! Monday: lasagna roll-ups (using spaghetti sauce from freezer) salad green beans (from freezer)…
Homemade bleu cheese dressing
Update: I have since found a better recipe. Here is the link. Ever since I can remember I’ve loved a good bleu cheese salad dressing. Or roquefort, but you don’t seem to see that as much anymore. There are several good commercial brands available but I decided to try to make my own. I found…
Happyland Music Fest aftermath or “How to clean a messy kitchen”
The 5th annual Happyland Music Fest was a smashing success. Somewhere around 100 people danced, frolicked, listened to music, camped and ate here over the weekend. We all had a fantastic time. And then I took a look at my kitchen. Oh, my. Pictures really don’t capture the enormity of the situation but take a…
Menu Monday ~ May 28, 2012
Click here for more menu ideas! Wow, that was quite a weekend! We hosted our 5th annual music festival in our backyard. Over the course of the weekend I would estimate we had somewhere around 100 people here. I counted 24 tents set up in our yard. It was epic. And so was the mess…
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