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Squash Porridge

Squash Porridge

    I’m so hungry! What can I make to eat? What’s in the Fridge? How many times do we ask this of ourselves each week…not having the brain power left to plan ahead, but desperately needing a quick meal because we forgot to eat breakfast? 

Three Chile Enchilada Sauce

Three Chile Enchilada Sauce

  Perhaps part of the purpose of a food blog is not just to give recipes that you have never tried before (which is getting more difficult to do), but to remind you of things you have not thought about in a while.  Maybe there 

Pinto Fuul

Pinto Fuul

  If there is a highway that links Gluttony and Hunger, and if on that highway there is a small cafe that occupies the space halfway between Gluttony and Hunger, then on their handwritten menu would be Fuul. As we journey out of the holiday 

Curry Chutney Dip

Curry Chutney Dip

As the Frost-Season parties continue, we search for yet another surprising flavor to serve that causes people to freeze in their tracks, forget whatever they were blathering about, and relish the moment whilst savoring the symphony on their tongues.  That isn’t too much to ask, 

Caldo de Pollo, or Hearty Chicken Soup

Caldo de Pollo, or Hearty Chicken Soup

. Frost on the windows leaves a new masterpiece every night, and the chilly weather makes me want to eat. Poultry sounds good, but I have no specific plan!  The words Brothy and Hearty come to mind. This process of pondering what to cook raises 

Sweet Potato Rutabaga Latkes

Sweet Potato Rutabaga Latkes

Pancakes aren’t just for potatoes anymore.   I love potatoes, don’t get me wrong…but there is something endearing about the Underdog.  The humble rutabaga, or ‘Swede’ as the Brits call it, it has become a forgotten vegetable in our culture, looking huge and weird in the 

Roasted Tofu Skewers with Spicy Peanut Sauce

Roasted Tofu Skewers with Spicy Peanut Sauce

Chewy tasty tidbits on a stick….everyone loves them!  Perhaps it harkens back to our cave days, we do seem to love the food-delivery system that is a skewer.   Especially when it is accompanied by a flavor bomb of a dip.  For many people, Thanksgiving 

Pear Apple Chutney

Pear Apple Chutney

Chutneys—pungent enough to raise your eyebrows, but sweet and savory enough that you close your eyes and let out an involuntary groan of pleasure.  Eaten alone it should be almost too much flavor, and eaten as a condiment to chicken or beans or rice…it should 

Roasted Vegetables…and Fruit

Roasted Vegetables…and Fruit

      That’s right, fruit. Here is one of my Rules of Thumb: If there is a technique that works for one thing, it might work on other things.  If you can roast wedges of potato you can probably roast beets, yams, celery, carrots, 

Apple Cider Syrup and Vinaigrette

Apple Cider Syrup and Vinaigrette

…or “How the North Got Its Own Balsamic Flavor” . . This is about those ideas, the little tidbits that you hear in passing, those half-overheard conversations on a bus, that can change your way of thinking.  A small suggestion riding the radio waves when 

And so it begins…

And so it begins…

. I ask the question that is the elephant in the clouds…. “Why do it?  AM I CRAZY?” . Why start a website about cooking when there are a bazillion other sites with recipes and advice and videos and reviews?  I ask myself that question 

Welcome to AWEsome Cookery!

Welcome to AWEsome Cookery!

Site is currently under construction, please visit us again later. As we follow the seasons, I will look at recipes, cooking techniques, food facts, and ways to enjoy your time in the kitchen.  “Cook with wine? Of course I do!  And sometimes I even put