Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Dill Poaching Sauce For Fish
Wild cod deserves special treatment! It is a rich, succulent fish. All too often cod is baked or fried, both of which can be delicious. Try poaching! You won’t dry out the fish or mask it in crumbs and oil. Poached cod will be moist and flavorful. The combination of the dill sauce and cod…
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Cocoa in Your Chili?
Chili is a favorite soup for countless people. I think there are as many varities of chili as there are people who like it. A delicious secret to any tomato-based chili is baking cocoa. Yes. You did read that correctly: baking cocoa. I discovered this totally by accident but cocoa in my chile is now…
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Fall, the Favorite
Love, love, love fall. I have been thinking about this and don’t quite know why fall is my favorite season. Maybe all the colors, maybe knowing Thanksgiving, the best holiday of all, is on the way, or maybe it’s the food associated with fall. I think it is a bit of all of those, but…
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Ohhhh, Pasta!
Making pasta is something I absolutely love doing. It is relaxing and satisfying. Making my own noodles of every type, my own ravioli, whatever is heaven. I like using fresh eggs from my hens and good flour. I don’t worry about what is in my flour, or where my eggs have been. Little did I…
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A Simple Little Thing
Sometimes the simplest little things are the best. In my shelves and bins full of kitchen gadgets the one I use so frequently is the one that cost the least, only a dollar years and years ago. Still being sold today I recently noticed something similar at a kitchen store for $3.00. Antique shops usually…
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Roasted Corn and Squash Cakes with Maple Cream
Squash abound nearly everywhere each fall. All shapes, sizes, colors. My favorite is the butternut with its pale orange outer coloring masking the deep, russet inside. So often squash is baked, scooped out, put in a bowl, and there you go. Nothing wrong with that, it is delicious. Squash is deserving of a more refined…
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Fresh Salsa Secret
Most gardeners usually have an abundance of tomatoes which almost always bear to the point of excess (lucky friends!). There are also a zillion tomato lovers out there who purchase their tomatoes at a farmers market, or their grocery store. No matter where you land your tomatoes, fresh, uncooked salsa is a favorite use for good…
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Avalanche! Run For Your Life!
Crunchy popcorn, crispy chips, smooth cheese, tart pickles, all share one thing in common: salt. Salt is everywhere. In snacks, desserts, many supposedly ‘healthy’ foods, even butter. Salt is not your friend. Salt is very much like a theif. It is robbing you while you look on. Salt is masking and yes, destroying genuine flavors…
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Creamy Cauliflower Soup
The first frosty blast of fall air scattering leaves about the yard always brings out my large kettle and before too long a pot of soup is simmering on the stove. Often times it is made from whatever I have on hand, but consistently heavy on the vegetables. Snowy white heads of cauliflower can usually…
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It’s Never the Same
Everyone knows when you aren’t feeling well there is usually nothing like a glass of lemon-lime soda, a bit of chicken broth, or maybe chicken and rice soup, and a few soda crackers. This ‘get-well’ food seems only to work when someone who cares about you, brings it to you. It never has the same…
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