Category Archives: Food

Chicken Cacciatore

(Pollo alla Cacciatora, Poulet Chasseur): My Favourite Low-Cost Technique from Last Winter and even better with fresh tomatoes (c) 2014, Davd Winter clothes unpacked yet? Shorts and swimwear boxed up and put in the attic? (If you put a few … Continue reading

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Quick Pickled Mackerel:

Tasty, Fairly Easy, and Keeps Well{!}: (c) 2014, Davd This recipe will be of most interest to readers who live near the sea. It’s tough enough to buy any fresh saltwater fish in say, Winnipeg or Kansas City—but mackerel? They … Continue reading

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Chili-sin-carne*

… Beans With Respect (c) 2014, Davd Among bean cooking, chili has a special prominence. Many people who generally avoid beans, like chili. While pea soup and even pintos with oregano and chili powder, aren’t distinctively men’s [nor women’s] cooking, … Continue reading

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Dandelion Wine:

It’s About That Time: (c) 2014, Davd I’ve delayed a couple other blogs because the dandelions are in bloom—and this recipe is useless the rest of the year. This is a more difficult technique than the other Bachelor Cooking posts, … Continue reading

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Blender Mayonnaise:

Better than the Jars, Versatile if Spring ever comes: (c) 2014, Davd As i began to write this “technique description”, on the first day of spring, there was a Heavy Snowfall Warning in effect, and indeed, more snow falling on … Continue reading

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Tuna and Noodles:

..Fast to Cook, Long Keeping Ingredients—a Classic One-Man Meal: (c) 2014, Davd “The salmon,” goes a mid-20th Century joke, “is a fish which grows to maturity in the oceans and appears as if by magic from a can, when unexpected … Continue reading

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Carrot-Raisin Salad:

..Something Juicy from Last Summer’s Garden: (c) 2014, Davd The snow is two feet deep at least, and if you dug down through it to the garden, you’d get nothing worth bringing into the kitchen. The nearest to fresh food … Continue reading

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Beans, .. Beans, .. Beans, .. Beans…

… this time, Black and Pinto … (c) 2014, Davd Home made pea soup can be a welcome part of your regular diet; but if that’s the only pea-family protein food you cook, it’s likely to get monotonous, eating pea … Continue reading

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Pea Soup from Scratch:

Beans, .. Beans, .. Beans, .. Beans… Chickpeas, .. Lentils, .. SplitPeas, … Frugal, Staple, Healthy Food… (c) 2014, Davd Perhaps you know that marching song: “They’re good for your heart The more you eat, the more you [ahem .. … Continue reading

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Making Filter Coffee:

… “on the cheap” but still good. (c) 2014, Davd New Year’s Day reminds me of coffee. I don’t think i drink more of it than on other days; methinks it’s because i’ve noticed many other people taking coffee that … Continue reading

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