tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25184642392782997242024-03-12T00:51:07.178-04:00Kate's KitchenKatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04344806302103046159noreply@blogger.comBlogger734125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518464239278299724.post-16412954294897048922024-02-01T21:57:00.002-05:002024-02-01T21:57:35.259-05:00Pantry Beef Stew and Greek Lemon Chicken Soup Every year we hike down to Florida
to visit with our clients who either live or winter there. I pack a cooler full of fridge food and take
bags of pantry groceries so we don’t have to shop as much while we’re
there. When we head home I invariably
have some goodies from Bayway and from Ted’s Smoked Fish and from the citrus
store. And, a few leftovers. This year the Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04344806302103046159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518464239278299724.post-53550534462289993272023-10-31T20:12:00.000-04:002023-10-31T20:12:22.886-04:00Thanksgiving Sliders FriendsGiving and Halloween
We live on a four-house private
lane so the odds of trick or treaters is virtually zero. Instead, we drive a few miles down the road
to our friend Uncle Lou’s. He and his
crew from the Norwaldo group set up a tent and chairs and a fire pit and have
LOADS of candy for the neighborhood kids.
And, all the kids who come in from other neighborhoods.Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04344806302103046159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518464239278299724.post-81602536522260053142023-09-27T21:23:00.002-04:002023-09-27T21:23:15.120-04:00Loaded Hash Browns What a day! We were
startled by an alarm at the Cape Cod condo.
Some friends who were staying there had set the alarm to stay and forgot
and opened the sliding door to the deck to check the weather. Then, as soon as we fell back asleep the
doorbell rang with a FedEx envelope. We
were due down the street to get our toes done.
Ok, fine, our talons cut. At Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04344806302103046159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518464239278299724.post-59431423881926688352023-09-25T20:37:00.002-04:002023-09-25T20:37:51.307-04:00Char-Grilled Asparagus with Warm Bread SaladLate last December I started keeping a log of recipes we’d
either tried or made again along with a list of recipes to try. By now in September we’re up to about 145
recipes. Ninety-six of them are
new. That’s an average of ten new
recipes a month. You can tell when the
wheels came off since I went from 15 in January and 21 in February down to 10
in March and less Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04344806302103046159noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518464239278299724.post-30947240216252690132023-08-24T21:26:00.003-04:002023-08-24T21:26:20.047-04:00Flank Steak Fajitas
As with many of our friends, the
last three plus years have been challenging.
On the one hand we’ve loved working remotely. On the other hand, we had some significant
staff turnover. Now, I have the best
team in the world! We’ve celebrated many
happy occasions and mourned many sad ones.
The most recent was the death of my brother John. He was diagnosed Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04344806302103046159noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518464239278299724.post-83175851707213793472023-01-24T21:34:00.002-05:002023-01-24T21:34:34.925-05:00Gingery Pork Meatballs with Swiss Chard Gingery Pork Meatballs with Swiss Chard
The question is… Do I
write this up as I made it or do I write it up as the recipe was written? Since we LOVED this dish I’m going with how I
made it. This recipe came from Comfort
in an Instant by Melissa Clark. We’ve
pretty much been cooking our way through the cookbook. The one no-go was the Lebanese Chicken
Soup.&Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04344806302103046159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518464239278299724.post-85394563732398853932023-01-14T22:11:00.000-05:002023-01-14T22:11:06.688-05:00Chicken Cacciatore and Glazed Carrots plus Sausage Chowder for Lunch Every once in a while I pick up a cookbook and really want
to cook my way totally through it. Comfort
in an Instant is one of those. Even
though it’s an instant pot cookbook I’ve done the time math and many of the
recipes are quicker on the stovetop.
Risotto is ten minutes to reach power, six under pressure and ten to
decompress. Twenty-six minutes versus
twenty-fiveKatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04344806302103046159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518464239278299724.post-44237041578452248242023-01-08T21:14:00.001-05:002023-01-08T21:14:36.568-05:00Pizza and Salad One of my New Year’s resolutions was to try more
recipes. All too often last year 6:00
arrived and we had no clue what was for dinner.
Cluster Truck, a trip down the street to Murphy’s at Flynns, grilled
cheese… Time to change. I created a spreadsheet to track our
progress. Name of the recipe. Where to find it. (Not as easy as it sounds with 2500 Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04344806302103046159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518464239278299724.post-90958542360144371942023-01-01T21:18:00.000-05:002023-01-01T21:18:40.231-05:00New Year's Day Appetizers We were supposed to head to Cape Cod over the Christmas
holiday. Life interfered. Big time!
And actually it’s a good thing it did.
I got to focus 100% on a huge office project that wound up coming in
exactly on time. Had I gone east that
wouldn’t have happened. Then, we had the
major cold storm. Our pet sitter had to
stay at the Zoo and take care ofKatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04344806302103046159noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518464239278299724.post-32389719187153791092022-12-24T22:27:00.004-05:002022-12-24T22:30:38.636-05:00A Good Week for Cooking! Blogging has been way down my list over the last couple of
years. Life has been busy and
interesting. I’ll not go into all the
details except to say we’re hoping for a MUCH better 2023!
Over the last couple of years we’ve had way too much
carryout and not enough good old-fashioned home cooking. Hopefully that will also improve in
2023. At least over the last Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04344806302103046159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518464239278299724.post-21715425564034290712022-06-05T19:45:00.000-04:002022-06-05T19:45:10.994-04:00Dumplings with Spicy Ginger Pork and Bok Choy We joined a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) this
year. After a less than stellar
experience MANY years ago we decided to give it another whirl. The fact that we pay a delivery fee and the
veggies show up on our front porch is a super double bonus. Market Wagon (the folks doing the delivery)
majorly muffed the first week. I was SO
disappointed to miss all the Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04344806302103046159noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518464239278299724.post-47007260470937079932022-02-24T16:58:00.004-05:002022-02-24T16:58:39.379-05:00Zesty HummusI’ve told the story so many times about finding this cookbook. I owned every other one from the WTHR Sunrise series. My friend Lisa’s mom died and she came in to town to clean out her condo. When we went by to say hello I found one of the rules was that everyone had to leave with something. I chose a beautiful navy with sunflowers pitcher and bowl. And, that bowl hasKatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04344806302103046159noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518464239278299724.post-1654215975157698462022-02-20T20:48:00.007-05:002022-02-24T17:06:34.258-05:00Joyce's Chicken Dip We had some friends over for dinner. Old favorites were on the menu. First I looked in my blog. Then in my Word document called Kate’s
Cookbook. Then in the pdf recipe
box. Then in the real written
recipes. Turns out I’d pulled one of the
recipes and it was parked in a bowl on the island. The other was actually with the written
recipes. But, Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04344806302103046159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518464239278299724.post-5875218480993200302022-02-13T22:36:00.001-05:002022-02-13T22:36:59.107-05:00Bloody Mary Tomato Aspic Sometimes new recipes come from happy coincidences. Our Super Bowl menu was going to be 1950’s
cocktail party recipes. Tomato aspic was
on the list. But I was going to do the
tomato aspic/avocado mousse that I’ve made for several parties. The pantry wasn’t cooperating. I found huge bottles of V8 but nothing the size
I wanted. But there was a quart of
Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04344806302103046159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518464239278299724.post-46542481967973287682021-10-06T14:09:00.000-04:002021-10-06T14:09:00.791-04:00Brie with MushroomsConnie accuses me of never following a recipe. I say never say never. LOL In all honesty, I rarely follow a recipe as written. Either I have an ingredient I want to use up so I substitute or I just use the recipe as a suggestion and fill in the blanks myself. That’s what happened with a recipe in Chef Recipes Made Easy. It was for camembert with a wild Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04344806302103046159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518464239278299724.post-30440993422795776512021-06-26T08:56:00.000-04:002021-06-26T08:56:07.114-04:00Mac and Cheese QuicheSix tomatoes were sitting on the counter getting a bit old. And, a bunch of asparagus was having the same problem in the fridge. What to do with them? I kept picturing a kind of quiche with a mac and cheese crust. Couldn’t come up with a recipe on Eat Your Books or by searching the internet. So, I decided to make one up. By the Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04344806302103046159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518464239278299724.post-76978617076777935332021-04-18T21:18:00.001-04:002021-04-18T21:18:45.838-04:00Watermelon, Queso Fresco and Mint Salad Watermelon, Queso Fresco and Mint Salad
This salad is SO refreshing. I used a melon baller since not only is it
easier than trying to get the watermelon out of the rind, it also looks
pretty. The recipe didn’t specify the
size of the cubes so I made both the jicama and queso fresco cubes about ¼”
max. The recipe also said to mix the
dressing separately.  Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04344806302103046159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518464239278299724.post-73813941982204251892021-04-09T09:09:00.001-04:002021-04-09T09:09:25.479-04:00Nantucket Cranberry Pie Where has this been all of my life? And, why did my hubby from Boston not know
about this? Well, the good news is that
now Nantucket Cranberry Pie is indeed in my life. It’s super easy to put together and so very
tasty!
Nantucket Cranberry PieIngredients:
1 stick unsalted butter, melted,
plus more for the pan
2 heaping cups cranberries
¾ c pecans, Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04344806302103046159noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518464239278299724.post-6385775912958323602021-02-23T20:46:00.001-05:002021-02-23T20:46:13.050-05:00Milk Bread Milk BreadAlso known as plain, old, white bread. I realized they were one and the same when I
made the Japanese Egg Salad Sandwich.
Had one of those ah-ha moments.
Now, I’m fortunate to have a bread maker because I certainly don’t have
the time to make bread from scratch. Once
I figured out that the order is wet, dry, yeast, my breads have turned out so
well. Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04344806302103046159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518464239278299724.post-80038902101882895082020-11-28T13:41:00.003-05:002020-11-28T13:41:28.700-05:00Japanese Egg Salad SandwichesWe're usually up for trying something new and different. For example, Japanese egg salad sandwiches. I read an article that said that they're VERY popular in Japan. Sold in convenience stores, grocery stores, pretty much anywhere you can get food. The recipe looked interesting. It called for taking the yolks out and mashing them with the Kewpie mayonnaise. And,Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04344806302103046159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518464239278299724.post-70388794602102025142020-11-15T11:07:00.000-05:002020-11-15T11:07:07.055-05:00Palomino's Portabella Mushroom Soup and Chop Chop Salad with Garlic BreadBC used to be Before Connie in our home. Now it's also Before Covid. Before our lives got upended. We had season tickets to six different theatres in Indy and Carmel. Had being the operative word. When we went to IRT - which is Indiana Repertory Theatre - we stopped at Palomino's for dinner. We ate in the bar and always had their Portobello mushroom soup and Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04344806302103046159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518464239278299724.post-10484640610830972442020-11-03T17:11:00.002-05:002020-11-03T17:11:13.145-05:00Stroganoff Lamb BurgersWe've now been working from home for seven months. And, we love it! Today, alas, I had to go to the office. A plumber and his helper were going to be in the house all day. While Connie can shut himself up in the study with an air purifier going, I'm stuck with the dining room table. Too close for comfort. I didn't think about dinner all day. Got home Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04344806302103046159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518464239278299724.post-10428689471089784682020-08-29T16:54:00.003-04:002020-08-29T16:54:46.461-04:00Clam Pizza Clam pizza. I've read about. The iconic dish of Rhode Island. But, I've never had it although it's always sounded intriguing. So, here I was. 6:00. No clue what we could have for dinner. Carryout last night and that wasn't happening two nights in a row. I had a couple of humongous patty pan squashes thanks to a glitch with a farm-to-table Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04344806302103046159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518464239278299724.post-15586603067252618592020-08-26T20:07:00.000-04:002020-08-26T20:07:00.947-04:00Tomato Pie Pizza I love the idea of tomato pie. What could go wrong with tomatoes, mayonnaise and cheddar cheese in a pie crust? As it turns out, plenty. I made one a couple of years ago and it was soggy. I do believe the leftovers went into the trash bucket. Yet, I see photos of tomato pie and pretty much drool. So, I decided to see what I could do that'd have the flavorKatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04344806302103046159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518464239278299724.post-83417384000420388442020-08-13T20:31:00.000-04:002020-08-13T20:31:12.732-04:00Duck in Caramel Brandy Sauce with Peaches and AsparagusMy eye was on carryout from Sahm's. This was the third day of a virtual conference. That lasted nine hours a day. Talk about Zoom burnout! But, I learned a bunch so it was worth the time. I'd read an email mid-morning with their specials. Not having to spend the time cooking and then cleaning up was very appealing. Then, mid-afternoon our Imperfect box Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04344806302103046159noreply@blogger.com0