Category: Blog Posts

Remembering Cody

Dear Friends, I hope you will permit me a moment of remembrance for a dear friend to me and to Idiot’s Kitchen. My friend Cody Stanford passed away unexpectedly last week and I feel that

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The Best Corned Beef

St. Patrick’s Day is tomorrow so I’m getting in just under the wire to share the recipe again for THE BEST CORNED BEEF! It’s baked, not boiled, and has an amazing, zingy mustard crust. This

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How to Freeze Greens

How to Freeze Greens! Those deep, dark, vitamin filled greens! In my last few posts, I’ve mentioned that I’ve joined a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) this year so I’ve been receiving farm fresh, organic vegetables

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St. Patrick’s Day Dinner

St. Patrick’s Day Dinner!  Doesn’t that look good? My lovely sister sent me this photo today and now I’m so hungry for a good corned beef St. Patrick’s Day Dinner! For me St. Patrick’s Day

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Happy Holidays!

  Happy Holidays! If you’re like me, and addicted to watching Bing Crosby movies every year at Christmas, you just read Happy Holidaaaaays in the song version from the movie Holiday Inn. We’ve been on

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How to Use a Potato Ricer

Just in time for Thanksgiving, I have a gadget that you need to know about… How to Use a Potato Ricer! I am something of a kitchen gadget queen, although with my limited storage, (no

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TBT – Chicken with Poblano Cream Sauce

Hi! Remember me, your long lost recipe posting friend? Sorry things have been rather light around here lately. The orchestra season started with a bang and everything seems to be happening all at once. But

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How To Raise Butterflies

We’re taking a little break from recipes so I can share my latest obsession with you… Today we’re talking about How To Raise Butterflies! This summer when I was in Minneapolis for the opera, my

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We’re back! Sort of….

We’re back! Sort of… (My handsome friend for the week…) Thanks to Thaine, my tech guru, the Idiot’s Kitchen website is back up and running. We still have a ways to go and there is

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Housekeeping & Updates

Hi Friends, As you know, we’ve been having some technical difficulties around Idiot’s Kitchen for a few months. We had a big time hacking problem and since then, little buggie problems have been popping up

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What to Cook for Easter

What to cook for Easter? If you’re hosting Easter dinner this Sunday or looking for a dish to bring along to celebrate with family & friends, we’ve got some suggestions that will put a spring

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Jen’s Famous Monster Cookies

For the past nine weeks, I’ve been up to my eyeballs in opera. Where the is opera there is an opera orchestra. And where there is an orchestra, there needs to be cookies. LOTS of

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Last Minute Valentine’s Day Suggestions

Last Minute Valentine’s Day Suggestions! So with the actual holiday of love looming tomorrow, if you want to skip the over-crowded restaurant scene, I have some suggestions to sweep your Valentine right off his or

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Happy Valentine’s Day

Happy Valentine’s Day, Dear Friends! We’re a little early but it’s been quite a week here at Idiot’s Kitchen. If you follow IK on Facebook then you already know that the website was hacked big time a week

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