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Make Your Own Cream Cheese

Connie — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:50:29 +0000

I bought some of the most delicious homemade cream cheese with maple syrup and pecans at my local Farmer’s Market. It made a great light supper for several days spread on cinnamon raisin bread, along with a bottle of muscadine wine (another Farmer’s Market purchase.) Crisp, full and perfect as the days are getting warmer.

Of course, anything that tastes that good must go into my book. So I researched how to make cream cheese and came up with this fantastic video.

While the cook in the video made her cream cheese spicy, I will be adding maple syrup and pecans to mine.

When Bad Things Happen to Good Eggs

Connie — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:07:22 +0000

Note the bright yellow yolk--it makes all the difference

Boiling an egg is easy, right? Right! As long as you do it right. Yes, there is a wrong way to boil an egg.

Note-the grayish yellow yolk (yuck) and the white straggly solid goo (ick)

The wrong way is to take the egg out of the fridge, drop it into a pot that already has a lot of eggs in it, then crank the stove burner as high as it will go so that soon, the eggs are chucking and jiving like it’s Saturday night down at the local Drink ‘n Drown. Let them do their thing until the water’s all gone, then crack those babies open. Sound familiar? That’s the wrong way to boil an egg.

Here’s the way to boil an egg. (I’m putting this under recipes so I don’t have to search so hard to find it when I need it.)

By the way, sea salt DOES taste better on eggs than regular old table salt, don’t you think?

Red Beans and Rice

Connie — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:31:39 +0000

Who Dat!

In honor of the Saints going to the SuperBowl, I made a big pot of red beans and rice. Yum!Yum!
Usually, red beans and rice take a loooong time to make, but I came up with a quick way that tastes great(at least I think they were good.) Click Recipes (at the top of the page) for my recipe and feel free to share your own recipe.