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Friday Roundup 17

Friday Roundup 17

Happy Boxing Day, y’all. It’s been a hot minute (okay, maybe two or three … or five), but here we are again with a fresh Friday roundup. I’m not making any promises about this becoming an every Friday thing just yet, but let’s see where 

Merry Christmas 2025

Merry Christmas 2025

Merry Christmas! This post was scheduled in advance; I’m not actually writing blog posts on Christmas Day. Having been a blogging slacker for <mumble> years, I had one solid moment of blogging motivation earlier in the week and decided to roll with it, scheduling a 

Christmas 2025 Menu

Christmas 2025 Menu

For the past 8 years I’ve posted a Thanksgiving and a Christmas menu to social media. My partner has shared them with his family and co-workers as well. Here’s this year’s Christmas menu. It started out pretty simple with just steaks, fish, and a few 

Zucchini-Potato Latkes

Zucchini-Potato Latkes

Tomorrow is the first day of Hanukkah and I’m taking a break from Christmas cookie making to pop together some latkes for a friend. I’ve been wanting to make this recipe from Smitten Kitchen for a while and today seemed the perfect day for it. 

Introducing (late): Remy

Introducing (late): Remy

Because it’s been a minute (or two) since I’ve been regularly posting, y’all haven’t gotten to meet Remy. I was going to refer to him as the “newest member of the household” but honestly his gotcha-day was almost 2 years ago. It’ll be 2 years 

Thanksgiving 2025

Thanksgiving 2025

A little after the fact, but here’s our menu from this year’s Thanksgiving and a few food photos. I wound up sending a text to everyone attending around noon, telling them that I was running about an hour behind. Giving myself that extra hour made 

What I’ve Been Up To: The Garden

What I’ve Been Up To: The Garden

It’s been a whole while since I’ve posted here; not for lack of cooking or ideas, but for lack of time. The past 3 months have been packed with things that had to be done, even if they weren’t the fun things. Things like unpacking, 

Thanksgiving 2022 Menu

Thanksgiving 2022 Menu

I finalized our Thanksgiving menu for this year. It’s pretty much the same as every other year. Thanksgiving is the one holiday that no-one in the family wants to mess with. We’ve pretty much perfected it with our combination sous-vide/deep fried turkey and sides that 

Julie, Julia, and Old School Food Blogging

I saw the news on Twitter first, and then the nearly immediate follow up by the NY Times; Julie Powell had died of cardiac arrest on November 1st of this year. She was 49. Julie was maybe the first real average person food blogger who 

Dirty Vodka Martini & Blue Cheese Olives

Dirty Vodka Martini & Blue Cheese Olives

Back before Covid, I had a standing Monday-after-work-date with a friend. We would meet up at our favorite restaurant bar, halfway between our two houses, order 2 dirty vodka martinis with blue cheese olives, and split a spinach salad with steak. It got to the 

Overnight Chicken Stock

Overnight Chicken Stock

A while back I posted a recipe for Instant Pot chicken stock, and I still use that recipe once in a while when I need chicken stock quickly or I need to make multiple batches for a big cook. In the last couple of years, 

2022 Garden Plans

2022 Garden Plans

The seed catalogs and garden catalogs are starting to show up in my mailbox and it’s making me excited about the coming year and some of the things we have planned to do around the property! Last year was our “discovery” year, so most of