The Yellow Apron

This is a little late for Thanksgiving, but not for Christmas.  The recipe off the Red Star Yeast website was recommended to me.  The photo...

While I appreciate how well I've managed my basil this year, it has been a challenge to use or preserve the abundance.  I mean, how much...

This was supposed to be a vegetarian cholent , and not a post.  Then I started throwing the entire crisper and some crazy spices in it, so I...

Somehow, I managed to grow a ton of thyme in the lettuce patch.  The herb pot I started inside and the plant I was trying to grow next to so...

So, way back I bought a bone-in leg of lamb because it was only $5 per pound.  That never happens.  I did a terrible hack job to get four ro...

  I was clearing out a pot for planting winter items and pulled a massive green onion.  I had kind of been hanging onto it because it was th...

  Despite it being the time of year that I tend to eat 19th-century British and American types of foods, I'm still trying to incorporate...

One of the volunteer sunflower seeds bloomed!  There are a few others scattered around.  Some of them might make it to flower. There are man...

My tomatoes finally ripened...all at once.  Not really, but it sure felt like it.  I oven-dried some of them, made the sweet and sour sauce...

I used to braise chicken all the time when I was in college.  I was scared that I would under-cook it in the oven, but stovetop braises are ...