Cooking

There are a few spices that that I tend to use a lot of - minced garlic, minced onion, salt, pepper, paprika - to name a few. I've discovered a great source of most spices at prices significantly less that…

The Thanksgiving turkey turned out pretty nice. This 18-pounder cooked in 3 hours, believe it ot not. I expected it to take 4-4.5 hours so when the thermometer stuck in its thigh showed 175 after only three hours, I was…

The cornbread stuffing. This turned out so good my wife is eating it by the spoonful already. Tomorrow morning, Thanksgiving Day, the turkey needs to come out of the fridgeat 6:30am to sit at room temperature for an hour. Then…

The cauliflower and fetucchini gratin dish is ready to be topped with the seasoned breadcrumbs and popped into the oven.

The apple pie is done. I sure hope it tasts ok. I discovered that I forgot to add the cinnamon and nutmeg. I did add some extra brown sugar, so let's cross our fingers and hope for the best.

The pumpkin pie is done.

Today is Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, and due to several turns of events I'm doing most of the cooking this year. Here is the first task of the day: Using my Spyderco sharpener to put a nice utility edge…

Tonight I had the honor of preparing Mother's Day dinner for five women in my family spanning four generations, four of them mothers. The eldest was my own 77 year old mother and great-grandmother to the youngest lady present, Sydney,…