Culinary Adventures with Lori
Sunday, July 7, 2024
My Weekly W's
Friday, July 5, 2024
In My Kitchen
I am joining Sherry at sherrys pickings for her monthly series In My Kitchen where people from all across the globe share what is going on in their kitchens.
June is always the start to a busy time in my kitchen putting fruits and veggies up for the winter. I didn't grow much in the garden this year so I'm thankful for a nice local Farmer's Market to find all of our seasonal favorites. The canning, freezing and dehydrating begins.
The best thing about Summer is all of the fresh produce. I'm fortunate to live in an area where we have a pretty long growing season.
This company was at a fundraiser we attended and I chose this bag of double dipped chocolate covered peanuts. They were so fresh and delicious I wish I had bought more than one. Isn't that always the case?
While shopping I found this 'localish' white corn meal. I used it in my recipe for cornbread and am very happy to have found it. I will be buying this brand from now on.
I typically make all of our sauces, including BBQ sauce, but I do like to have a jar on hand this time of year when I need to save time. This is from the processing plant/store front where we buy a lot of our meat. It has a smooth flavor that isn't too sweet and is delicious on grilled chicken.
I am a huge cheese fan so I was excited to try this when I saw it. It's a cheddar and gruyere blend and it's very tasty.
June was a bit warmer here than normal so I didn't want to do much baking but needed a sweet treat. Banana pudding to the rescue. You can find my recipe here. It's such an easy and refreshing desert that is perfect for any season. Culinary Adventures with Lori: 2019 Christmas thoughts
I have a rather large collection of cookbooks and I keep promising myself that I won't buy anymore but I am weak. I love Recipe Tin Eats website and kept hearing about her cookbook Dinner so it kind of jumped in my arms when I saw it at the bookstore. I've already cooked a few things out of it and have dozens of page markers with others to try. It really is a great book.
Well, that is my look back at what went on in my kitchen in June. Sherry, thank you for hosting. It's always so much fun to see what is going on in everyone's kitchens.
Thursday, July 4, 2024
Happy 4th of July!
Sunday, June 30, 2024
My Weekly W's
Sunday, June 23, 2024
My Weekly W's
Friday, June 21, 2024
52 Recipes in 52 weeks #12 Zucchini Tots
One of my projects for 2024 is to try one new recipe each week for the year. These will be chosen from all of the flagged pages in cookbooks that I have or from the file of 'need to try' recipes. I will try new desserts, main dishes, side dishes and breads.
This recipe is my maternal Grandmother's. They always had a HUGE garden and grew so many things including zucchini. I'm sure she always had an abundance to use.
Sunday, June 16, 2024
My Weekly W's
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
52 Recipes in 52 Weeks #11 Stove Top Macaroni and Cheese
One of my projects for 2024 is to try one new recipe each week for the year. These will be chosen from all of the flagged pages in cookbooks that I have or from the file of 'need to try' recipes. I will try new desserts, main dishes, side dishes and breads.
Sunday, June 9, 2024
My Weekly W's
Friday, June 7, 2024
I knew it would eventually happen...
I was standing outside yesterday talking to a co worker in the parking lot for a while. I felt like something flew on me but then thought it was probably just my hair. She checked my back and there was nothing so we continued to talk but I just couldn't get over the idea that something was on me.
I had on a collared sleeveless blouse and a light summer quarter length sweater. I sat my purse down and took off my sweater and asked her to check my blouse. She went to pinch the top of the blouse to shake it and grabbed what I was worried about to begin with. YES, it was a cicada!!
I know this is a very minimal issue in the grand scheme of things but still, it totally grossed me out that that creature had been in my blouse for probably 30 minutes. Seriously, I can't be the only one freaked out by these little monsters. I will be so glad when they are gone.
Happy Friday!!
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
52 Recipes in 52 Weeks #10 Lamb Kofta Meatballs
One of my projects for 2024 is to try one new recipe each week for the year. These will be chosen from all of the flagged pages in cookbooks that I have or from the file of 'need to try' recipes. I will try new desserts, main dishes, side dishes and breads.
I got way behind in posting new recipes so I'm working on getting caught up.
This is an easy sheet pan dinner that is very versatile. You can serve this in warm Naan or as a rice bowl. With lemon yogurt or tahini sauce. It's as delicious as it is beautiful. This recipe comes from Recipe Eats Dinner cookbook. There are so many wonderful recipes in this book you may be seeing a lot of them here.
For Koftas
grate 1/2 white or yellow onion