Category: Kitchen

Cooking on the Wood Burning Stove

November 15, 2010 Posted by Issa under Kitchen
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I’ve been contemplating trying to cook on the wood burning stove, and now that it’s finally cold enough to light it up on occasion, I got to try it out! Keep Reading

Question – Ziplocs and Foil

August 26, 2010 Posted by Issa under Kitchen
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My use of Ziplocs and aluminum foil really bugs me. I’m looking for solutions that aren’t so disposable. Keep Reading

Nutrition Advice Gone Awry

July 28, 2010 Posted by Issa under Kitchen
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It can be hard to follow along with all the nutrition advice out there. Eggs good or bad? How many glasses of wine? This fish or that fish? And that’s not even counting the moral choices of free-range, free trade, etc. Keep Reading

Issa’s Italian Spice Mix

July 19, 2010 Posted by Issa under Kitchen
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Last week I made sun-dried tomatoes to go in my custom spice mix. I love this mix and use it on all kinds of things. My favorite is to use it liberally on fried potatoes, but I’ve been known to sprinkle it over all kinds of things. I used to just by random Italian seasoning mixes at the grocery store, but it’s even more fun to make my own. Just a mortar and pestle and a bunch of stuff thrown in, and I think it comes out super yummy.

Here’s the recipe in case you want to try yourself. Keep Reading

How To Make Sun-Dried Tomatoes

July 14, 2010 Posted by Issa under Kitchen
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I’ve got a spice mix I make that really needs sun-dried tomatoes. They’re expensive, though, and there are plenty of tomatoes coming out of the garden. I could make my own! I did, and they came out great, so if you’d like to try it yourself, here’s the process. Are sun-dried tomatoes from the store actually dried in the sun? Nope. And yours don’t have to be, either. You can use your oven or a… Keep Reading

How To Make Sweet Tea

July 6, 2010 Posted by Issa under Kitchen
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I grew up in Southern Illinois, which is “northern” by sweet tea standards. When I moved to Atlanta, I had to get used to southern sweet tea, and eventually grew to love it the crunchy-sweet concoction given in southern restaurants. Eventually, it had been a decade since I’d had sweet tea any other way.

I started trying to learn how to make it at home, trying all kinds of sweeteners from honey to maple syrup. I tried various production methods from adding the sugar to the finished tea to starting with a simple syrup. Nothing came out tasting right.

Finally, one day I gave up and just made sweet tea the way my mother did when I was a child. It was perfect. As much as a drink can do so, it was like coming home. A decade of southern sweet tea hadn’t erased the fact that this was how I wanted my tea. Keep Reading

Salad Bar Meals

May 20, 2010 Posted by Issa under Kitchen
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Of all the meals in the world, I feel the most decadent and joyful when I’m eating from a plate of juicy fruits and veggies and little bits of meat and cheese. It feels like a tiny little Roman orgy on a plate, as if there should be someone nearby fanning me with a palm leaf. Keep Reading

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