The Uncensored Kitchen

No, this is not "mock" egg salad (I'm generally afraid of a recipe that uses that term).  It uses real eggs, but cooks them i...

I made this cabbage (with spinach) to go along with my St. Patrick's Day meal of Irish stew and soda bread (see previous post).  ...

I had to go back a ways to find this.  All the way back to August 23.  It's not that I haven't been cooking, it's just that I...

So I used to work at this great cafe that made all sorts of yummy food from fresh, local ingredients, and my favorite was the noodle bowl....

After an early snow and frost, I had to salvage what hot peppers I could quickly. Their texture was no longer good for canning as rings in ...

Here's one from the "archives" (of pictures I hadn't sorted and made use of yet). Long beans which I found at our local f...

The plot. I am assigned to bring salad for a dinner with two friends. I headed to the farmers' market on Saturday with pretty low hopes...

Now if fried green tomatoes and corn cakes don't make a grand southern summer-time meal! And the smell of frying! I've got kind of...

While waiting for the pictures of my sweet potatoes to load, my spider solitaire win rate took a one percent dip. Grrrr . . . But here I a...

We've been throwing these in a pot, cooking, peeling, and slicing them to put in the fridge and eat on over the course of a few days. G...

Sunday night, my husband conceived of a torch-lit back patio picnic in which we would have various friend over, cook al fresco, and talk lat...

About a month ago when it seemed that all our volunteer vines were only going to produce ornamental gourds, I picked off a few handfuls of b...

Two bits of inspiration here: 1. A real foodie of a co-worker who's always saying "Alton Brown-this or that" reminded me of my...

There is a tree just around the corner from my house whose leaves have turned yellow-brown and are falling at the slightest provocation. I...

I had a day off this week, so what did I do? Spent the whole day on my feet turning our garden roma tomatoes into salsa. I wished I'd ...

Quite a supper tonight. After a weekend away (and very little cooking on my part) I was ready to get creative in my kitchen again. Before ...

Somehow, I always think pizza will a fast supper. You only have to let the dough raise 20 minutes! It seems I forget about all the rolling...

I have vague memories of making pasta with my mom when I was a kid. Mostly, I remember the strips of noodles hung out to dry over clothes-d...

Summertime. Salad Time. We helped a friend move from one apartment to another last weekend, and I naturally wanted to know if lunch would ...

I first encountered labane in a small cafe in Gaziantep, Turkey. The owners of the start-up business were excellent hosts. They made us a ...