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Grocery Gardening

Corwin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:39:13 +0000

My sister sent me a copy of her new book. I plan on getting my head wrapped around it soon and will follow up with a glowing review I’m sure. The copy she sent me appears to be printed upside down but I will figure it out soon. Read more and get a copy here! For comparison purposes the book is pictured here with my local grocery gardening flyer.

Grocery Gardening

Homebrew wine.

Corwin — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:34:03 +0000

I’ve made wine, beer, mead, and a form of apple cider for many years now. I managed to snooker my sister into trying her hand at wine too. Beer is very labor intensive. It requires sometimes hours of preparation, boiling, chilling, pitching, racking, etc etc. Wine and cider are crazy simple, especially when you can just buy the grape juice or apple juice and mix it all together. The only real work is making sure everything is crazy clean. I’ve been doing this for many years and have managed to keep things clean enough I’ve never had a batch infection. Tonight I transfered a batch of chardonnay from the primary fermenter to a secondary. Here are a few pictures of my mad scientist lab. [click to embiggen]

Got Carboys?	Trappist Quad	Sanitizing
Racking	Don't Fear the Suds	Remnants
Yum, wine.	Racking	Secondary

Baked chicken a la spinach.

Corwin — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:21:47 +0000

First, I am not a chef. Second, I’m not even a good cook. I do like to cook, but enjoyment of cooking does not a chef make – or something like that. I manage to hobble something together that’s edible on occasion. As you will see with the following recipe, I throw together completely random ingredients and on occasion it turns out damn good. This is one of those recipes, at least for me. I’m a simple person, some might say simpleton. Oh, and I never measure stuff.

Boneless chicken breasts on both sides add paprika, cayenne, basil, Zatarans Creole seasoning, thyme, black pepper, Mrs. Dash Italian Medley. Put in a glass cooking thingy, stuff some thawed chopped spinach around it. Add a light amount (don’t drown it) of Ken’s Northern Italian with Basil & Romano around the chicken and on the spinach. Cover all of it with plenty of shredded Parmesan cheese, sqeeze on some fresh lemon, slice some bits and do like the photo. Bake at 350 for 40 minutes. Indulge. [ don't forget you can always click on images to embiggen them ]

Chicken Spinach Invention

Cream cheese-stuffed jalapenos wrapped in bacon

Corwin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:16:49 +0000

I found this today. I can’t wait to make these little buggers. Fresh jalapenos, cream cheese, and bacon is all you need. The only thing that might improve upon this is a giant mug of cold beer. And yes, I read The Pioneer Woman and I’m a guy. Don’t judge. You can find the recipe here at The Pioneer Woman

Bacon-Wrapped Jalapeno Thingies.