Monthly Archives: December 2016

Hogswatch Dinner Part 5: The Main Event!

Sorry this is a little late. I spend Christmas relaxing after making dinner, and Boxing Day doing pretty much the same thing. I love making this kind of dinner, but it can be quite taxing. I think my favorite part … Continue reading

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Hogswatch Dinner Part 4: Getting Saucy

The point today was to prep a few things to limit, to some degree, the amount of work on Hogswatch proper. Today I made three items, hard sauce, bread sauce, and potted shrimp. Each dish was pretty simple, only had … Continue reading

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Hogswatch Dinner Part 3: The Pie

If you have read The Hogfather, or any of Pratchett’s Diskworld books that deal with Hogswatch you know that a pork pie with a glass of sherry is what children leave out for the Hogfather on Hogswatch even. So, in … Continue reading

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Hogswatch Dinner Part 2: Playing with Meat

I mentioned in the first installment of this series that I had a way to deal with the fact we cannot get chipolata sausages here in Pocatello, and that it would be arriving Wednesday, well it did. What arrived, along … Continue reading

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Roasted Pork with Orange dinner

Tonight’s dinner again came from The Silver Spoon. I made “Roasted Pork with Orange,” “Carrots with Rosemary,” and “Penne with Lettuce.” I either got my timing right tonight or chose dishes that were less time consuming than last time without noticing. … Continue reading

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Chicken with Cream Dinner

This was my first try at making recipes from my new cookbook The Silver Spoon. I made “Chicken with Cream,””Braised Broccoli,” and “Baked Pumpkin with Potatoes.” The chicken and the pumpkin and potato dishes turned out quite nicely, and everyone who … Continue reading

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Hogswatch Dinner Part 1: Beginning With the End

First a little background information. The wife and I are big fans of Terry Pratchett’s Disk World series. We were both introduced to this series though the TV miniseries adaptation of The Hogfather. Both of us have since taken up … Continue reading

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Latke Time

Time for something a little different, a post by Raven. This morning I decided I wanted to make latkes. Now, I have eaten a few potato pancakes in my day, and have made a few using mashed potatoes, but never … Continue reading

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Mystery Pizza Bread Pudding

Tonight’s dinner was Pizza Bread Pudding, salad, and soup. First off let me explain that it is the recipe that is a mystery to me, not the pizza I used when I made the recipe. If you’re not able to tell … Continue reading

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Ham and Broccoli Pasta

I hadn’t intended to cook last night, but you know how life goes sometimes. Raven was originally on to cook yesterday but he had really pressing things to get done, and really couldn’t take the time out to cook dinner too, … Continue reading

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