Lately PBS has started showing a Greek cooking show called A Cooking Odyssey around lunch time. I happened to catch it the other day when the chef was making a dish of spinach and rice that he said h...
Earlier this month, Matt and I spent a long weekend eating our way around New York City. For dinner one night we went to the fabulous Fatty Cue. We ate a lot of great protein that night, but my hands...
Well, unfortunately my wrist surgery didnt go quite as planned. Instead of an easy arthroscopic surgery with very little recovery, I ended up having full-blown surgery with a metal hook implanted in ...
Matt wanted just one thing for his birthday this year, to upgrade from our El Cheapo smoker to something a little bigger and hopefully a little better. Dont get me wrong the El Cheapo served us well ...
Hi, remember us? Yeah, I know its been awhile. Its been a heck of a month or so at Chez A Good Appetite. Im still having a hard time doing much cooking due to an injured wrist, but hopefully surgery ...
If you missed last nights episode of Diners, Drive-ins and Dives featuring our favorite pizza place, Pizzeria Lola, here it is complete with cameos from Matt and I. If you are not reading this post i...
Hey folks, just a reminder that tonights episode of Diners, Drive-ins and Dives will feature our favorite local pizzeria, Pizzeria Lola. (Andrew Zimmern of Bizarre Foods, Guy Fieri and Ann Kim of Piz...
Continuing in this weeks St. Patricks Day theme, I give you our dessert for Saturday night. This cake is rich and slightly fudgy, almost but not quite a brownie. It is my favorite dark chocolate cake...
Saturday, well be having a sort of low-key St. Patricks Day celebration with our cousins. There will be home-cured corned beef, colcannon and whiskey cake. For a little entertainment, well be tasting...
Our kitchen is busy this week preparing for a big St. Patricks dinner this coming Saturday. My mom is a Murphy whos family came to New York during the Potato Famine, so of course I need to celebrate ...
Last night Matts Deluxe Meatloaf met its real purpose, the meatloaf sandwich. A nice hearty wheat bread, a good warm slab of leftover meatloaf, some soft cream cheese and sweet green tomato jam. A co...
Since Matt is doing most of the cooking right now, he is also coming up with most of the weekly menu. This week he said he wanted to make meatloaf (I think its mainly because he wanted meatloaf sandw...
Im still one hand typing here as this tendonitis doesnt seem to be getting any better. Luckily, I had something special to console myself with over the weekend, some Fulton War & Peace. We really...
We were supposed to have ramen for dinner last night, but I had the oddest craving for hominy and southwestern flavors. Luckily, we had dried hominy in the pantry so this was a cinch to throw togethe...
Matt and I are trying to figure out where to go on vacation this year. Right now the place on the top of the list is Munich and the Bavarian Alps. One of the things that kept coming up while Matt was...
We are Lego fans in these house and when we saw this minifig in the latest series we had to get it. I hear there is a lack of people training to be butchers these days, so at least we have the Lego v...
Yesterday was Pancake Day, so Matt made me pancakes for dinner. Well, actually we had planned to have these pancakes this week before we realized it was Pancake Day, we just got lucky. We were just l...
I was about to put chili on the menu again last week, but then realized it had been a long time since wed had a nice big pot of beans and rice. Matt noticed there were a couple chorizo links in the f...
Sometimes it feels like Im always planning my menus around items in the fridge or freezer I need to use up. The other day Matt noticed I had a bunch of half packages of phyllo and puff pastry dough i...
It was a cold, cold weekend here in Minneapolis, like windchills of -13 cold, perfect weather for a big pot of Flemish Stew. We used this recipe from Serious Eats. It so simple you really dont even n...
Matt and I dont usually go out for Valentines Day. (Though this year we are going to Blackbirds Black Hearted Beer Dinner the weekend before.) When we have we find that you often get stuck with a set...
Is it just me or does it seem like everyone is sick right now? Both Matt and I seem like we are on the verge of coming down with something, a cold or flu maybe. It seemed like a good week for some ho...
Recently, I picked up some heart-shaped silicone ice cube trays from IKEA and Target which inspired me to try my hand at making filled chocolates. I did a bit of research online and it didnt look lik...
We finally got to taste our New Years Ale this weekend. We were a little worried about it carbonating because we had a hard time getting the honey to incorporate before bottling. But as you can see, ...
Last week, I suggested to Matt that we have some of the sausages we have in the freezer for dinner. He started listing the kinds we had and remembered there was a Hawaiian sausage flavored with pinea...
We played around with drinks again this weekend. This time it was cocktails. I had some blueberry drink concentrate from Ikea in the fridge that I bought with cocktails in mind. Its like a very thick...
I had some chicken thighs in the freezer that I wanted to use for dinner the other night. My initial thought was to do a Moroccan Chicken like this one or this one, but then I saw that bowl of clemen...
We are certainly happy to be done with the latest round of construction on our house and back home. Getting new doors and windows in the middle of a Minnesota January cold snap is a lot of fun, but t...
Once again our house is under construction leaving us without the ability to cook at home. Luckily, it is only a few days this time. In the meantime, I thought Id give you a recipe guide to one of ou...
This past New Years Eve we got together with family for a late dinner of barbecued ribs with corn bread and slaw. There was a lot of cornbread leftover, so I decided to turn some of it into a bread p...
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