December 2009

Third Time’s A Hot Charm

by bdunn on December 27, 2009

in Uncategorized

The kids are off from school, it’s really impossible to work, yet we still have garden leftovers that need attention else they go bad, and you can’t have that. Which is why this blog has resembled a cookbook lately. Today I found eight good Jamaican Hot Chocolate habanero peppers waiting patiently in the fridge, along [...]

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Gulf Coast Holiday Dip

by bdunn on December 24, 2009

in Recipes

Rich, zippy and makes you say “oh, yeah,” this is a modification based on a recipe from one Lynda Kay. Use fresh shrimp for best results. If you make it this time of year, you’ll have to get your crawfish frozen. Ingredients: → 1 pound fresh gulf shrimp → A half-cup of good crab boil [...]

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This is one of those things you can do with a lot of morning visitors and the last remains of a fall garden. Tortillas stretch the ingredients so far it almost seems like Jesus and the loaves. But we aren’t talking about fish tacos here. Especial de huevos, papas y tocino tacos: Ingredients → 12-16 [...]

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Storing Fat For The Winter

by bdunn on December 6, 2009

in Nature, Recipes

This is the time when the stars align, and we rush to set aside the year’s/decade’s surplus for the coming winter/Great Recession, in hopes we may thus sustain ourselves and carry through to another spring/middle-class bubble ecstasy time. Thus we swim into the late-season sea to surf the cusp of death in a cycle that [...]

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