crucible of ennui

BTW - while slicing onions for this, I cut the tip of my finger off. I hope my bitter flesh compliments the flavor of BACON!!!
Corn Chowder with BACON!!!
8 cups (2 lbs-ish) frozen corn kernels, thawed
3 cups chicken broth
6 slices BACON!!! Heck. Make it 12. Cook the whole freakin’ package. What do I care?
1 onion, chopped [...]

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One skillet. No foolies.
1 package Italian sausage (like five sausages)
1 onion diced fine
1-2 red bell peppers
8 oz penne pasta (like 2 1/2 cups dry)
3 cloves garlic
1/4 tsp red pepper flakes
1 cup white wine
2 cups chicken broth
1/2 cup heavy cream
8 oz broccoli cut up into 1 inch pieces
1/2 cup parmesean cheese
1/2 tsp balsamic vinegar
1 tbsp fresh [...]

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As promised - here is the recipe for the Napolitano family meatballs. I usually take a day off and get Christina to do the same and we get 10 times the amount to make a buttload at one time. Then we freeze them and have them as needed. BTW - Christina is a massive wuss [...]

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I’m willing to put my sauce recipe up against anything out there. This has been in my family for years. Why am I putting it out there? Because everyone deserves a chance at greatness. My sauce could stop a religious war. My sauce is world peace in a pot of rich red tomato-y goodness. No [...]

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Mmm… holiday weekends! I love me some 3-day weekends. I took the opportunity on Sunday to really work on the house and cook. I think the best day for cooking was Sunday.
I started with French Toast. And not the wimpy kind made with sliced sandwich bread… I used that thick cut texas toast. I remembered [...]

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Once upon a time, a proud, old king asked his daughters, “How much do you love me?”
“I love you more than gold and silver” one daughter replied.
“I love you more than diamonds and rubies and pearls,” her sister said.
“I love you more than salt,” answered the third daughter.
The king grew angry when he heard this [...]

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Here’s a thought. I’m feeling lazy, but I want more of that soup I made this weekend. 
So I’m going to buy 2 or 3 of those roasted chickens from the deli… pick the meat, roast the two picked chicken skeletons and then make the soup from there. 
See…. I’ve cut out the roasting of the turkey and let someone else do it [...]

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that’s right. I made the bombdiggity soup this weekend. 
Glenn scoffed when I said I wanted to save the turkey carcass from Thanksgiving. But that’s what I used to make the soup.
Take a turkey carcass. 
Roast @ 450 for 15 minutes in the oven. Transfer browned bones to a large stock/soup pot
Add 2 onions, a rib or two of celery - sautee these [...]

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 I don’t know why, but I’ve been on the downside streak of bad cooking. The green bean casserole didn’t turn out the way I wanted. I thought that I’d do it from scratch and follow that neat recipe on Good Eats, but the beans were still underdone and kinda crunchy. And the onion topping was [...]

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It’s almost Thanksgiving again. I feel bad that Glenn has to work again on Thursday, but I am glad that he’ll be home on Saturday and Sunday. I want to make him something really special and yummy to eat… but the last few kitchen experiments have been less than… savory. 
We got a KICK ASS Kitchen Aid mixer and I had [...]

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