Tag Archive for 'cooking'

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Meal: McGill’s, Asian Chicken Salad
Drink: Just plain old iced tea
I just had a fabulous long lunch with my new friends from Jackson Technical. Tim and his wife Ashley, and Donna (sister wife?), asked us to join them at McGill’s today for a meeting/lunch.
I am delighted and slightly relieved to know [...]

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Meal: Roasted Chicken Stuffed with Mashed Honey Carrots in a Tarragon Glaze, Roasted Potatoes and Gruyere Cheese
Drink: Boxed Cab Sav
Have you ever cooked a whole, raw chicken? Cleaned it and trussed it and oiled it down? Stuffed it’s little cavity with vegetables? Brined it and de-spined it? The raw [...]

Blogging Lit

I am probably the least qualified cook on this big blue planet to write a guide to cooking. I never went to culinary school. I never worked in a kitchen. I often cook drunk. I rarely follow a recipe and never measure my ingredients. I consider myself an adventure cooker, kinda like an adventure racer. My finest meals are defined by many obstacles and little time. I am rarely more proud than when I have created something mostly edible from some aging ingredients collecting dust in the nether-regions of my pantry.