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  • Recipe Cooking Day Recap
    Cooking Day Recap
    The other day I posted about My Big Cooking Day , and I promised that I'd give you an update on how things went. I actually spent two days cooking - the first day I made my selections from Once a Month Mom's April 2010 menu , and the second day I[...]
  • Recipe Cooking Light Day 3
    Cooking Light Day 3
    Who would have thought when I set out this week planning my meals and going to the grocery store that I would have such a busy week.?.  I never could have predicted that I would have so much come up after school that I barely had time to[...]
  • Recipe Cooking Light day 2
    Cooking Light day 2
    Before dinner I may have thought I had bit off more than I can chew with this 5 days of Cooking Light Extravaganza....Before.  After, I am so glad I did.  I may have single-handedly made a new family favorite.  I rarely have 4 clean[...]
  • Recipe Guilty cooking day 1
    Guilty cooking day 1
    So Dr Yarn is out of town again. He is in India. While he is chowing down on exotic Indian food I am eating "stuff". This is stuff that he wouldn't eat if here were at home but that I find pure comfort food. It almost always consists of something[...]
  • Recipe Cooking Bootcamp Day 4
    Cooking Bootcamp Day 4
    Day 4 was a little on the quiet side. However, it gave us a lot of time to ask question about the Friday's Black Box Cooking Contest. We will have to prepare a salmon tartar and make another hot appetizer and main course from two secret[...]
  • Recipe Cooking Bootcamp Day 2
    Cooking Bootcamp Day 2
    Our classroom. It's a state of the art kitchen. My dream kitchen. Day 2, we started this lovely day with a pile of whole salmon with scale, head, and such.  We knew what was coming next.  We spent the morning learning how to[...]
  • Recipe Cooking Bootcamp Day 3
    Cooking Bootcamp Day 3
    Wednesday, the veal broth was ready, after a night of simmering. Time to marinate the beef. This was a beautiful, delicious, and innovative vegetarian appetizer:  Roasted Eggplant (Aubergine) with goat cheese, anchovy, and a[...]
  • Recipe Cooking Bootcamp Day 1
    Cooking Bootcamp Day 1
    Check out his famous glare. Another apology for blogging tardiness.  What is my excuse this time? Helen and I were at a cooking boot camp from Monday to Friday.  For a thousand dollars per person, Dirty Apron offers a 5 day 9-5pm[...]
  • Recipe Cooking Bootcamp Day 5
    Cooking Bootcamp Day 5
    On Thursday night, I scribbled down key points of things I learned throughout the week.  I was quite intimated by the idea of salmon tartare.  There were thousands of recipes online and I didn't quite like any of them.  I felt if we[...]
  • Recipe Cooking the day away...
    Cooking the day away...
    Good evening guys :) How was your day? Mine was decent. I was able to take some time today to do a little cookin'! But before I start there is WI to attend to. I forgot to WI yesterday morning, as I had a horrible night sleep before and[...]