Category Archives: Kym Cooked
Starch, and meat, and fat! Oh My!
The deep freeze finally broke. Only a couple of days of melting weather and I almost forgot the inspiration for last week’s food. In the endless cold, I needed comfort. I craved starch. I wanted to be smothered in … Continue reading
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Tagged chicken, comfort food, cooking, creamy cabbage, food, pot roast, potatoes
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Blasted ice biking, rice and beans, and kale-egg-toast
Oooooh it was a week. I don’t even know what made it such a long hard week. I think it’s the snow. No, not snow, it’s the ice. No, no, that’s not quite it either. We need a special term … Continue reading
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Tagged biking, chicken, cilantro, cooking, food, kale, kymsfavorite, vegetarian, winter, winter biking
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Salmon thingy, beanie wienies, and celebration steak!
*Sigh* What a week. Did I get it all done? Not yet. I did manage to cook three times. Sometimes I really have to stretch to think of what to cook. Maybe I’ll help you out with your meal … Continue reading
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Tagged camp food at home, canned salmon, cooking, Cooks Illistrated, food, steak
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Salsa-less Quesadillas
What I cooked this week. Inspiration or comedy, you pick. I started this cooking week with Cilantro Chicken. Will was so delighted he bloated himself on it. Then ate it’s leftovers the next afternoon. He continued to eat all the … Continue reading
My week in food: mild failure
I can’t compete with all the beautiful food blogs out there. I don’t even want to. But food and cooking is an integral part of my life. It’s not an afterthought. It’s not a chore that endlessly repeats and is … Continue reading
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Tagged cooking, food, fried eggs, healthy food, pasta, roast chicken, vegetarian
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Meat in bread
I’ve completely failed to even attempt to make a cheese soufflé. Learning to make a soufflé has been on my mind since Thanksgiving and it just isn’t going to happen. Not now anyway. I’ve decided to put it off until … Continue reading
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Tagged bacon, bread, cooking, culinary adventures, dinner party, food, kymsfavorite, pig in a blanket
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My cooking life
Learning how to follow a recipe was pretty easy. Learning why recipes work and how to modify one was more complicated. Learning to make cooking a regular part of my lifestyle was way harder. Like completing one race is an … Continue reading
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Tagged cooking, cooking methods, food, grocery shopping, kymsfavorite, meal planning
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Adventures in Turducken
It started as a suggestion. Then it became a persistent request. I felt it even when it wasn’t there. The need for turducken was growing. A turducken is a chicken stuffed inside a duck, inside a turkey. For a year … Continue reading
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Tagged challenge, chicken, culinary adventures, duck, food, meat, turducken, turkey
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What to bring: Ginger Pumpkin Bread
This is my potluck go to. At a time that you maybe thinking “What should I bring?” I thought I’d share mine. It’s easyish and damn tasty. It’s just unusual enough to feel a little special. I also chose it … Continue reading
Halloween Buckeyes
My Halloween tradition has become handing out candy from my front step. I bring the fire pit around to the front yard, invite a few friends, make chili and hot spiced spiked cider, and Halloween buckeye treats. We bundle up … Continue reading
Midwest With Zest 