Semiserious Chefs

There was an initial question about how “P.C.” the title of this recipe is, but my concluding thought was that there isn’t anyone left from the area to be offended by it. The foundation of this blend came with an attempt at making a personalized Greek seasoning. At one point we discussed blackened chicken and […]

I call this AWESOME Blend for the very simple reason that it’s shorter than ‘Awesome on Everything Blend,’ which is exactly what it is! Our local spice shop in Anchorage, Summit Spice and Tea, used to have a green herb blend, called Chena, that I used for a multitude of different applications. When they stopped […]

Our little family really does not do hotdishes (or ‘casseroles’ as everyone else might call them). It probably has a direct tie to Andrew’s abundant visits to Minnesota as a young person. However, when it comes time to come up with something to bring to a larger family gathering, what we might find exciting (particularly […]

  Yeah, I know that calling it ‘bread’ seems like a knock-off, but I’m not sure what else to call it. You use it like bread. I had the same problem when trying to make the duxelles ‘meatballs.’ If you call them Meatless Balls, which is what they are, it just sounds neutered, and Mushroom […]

Who doesn’t love the classic ‘pigs-in-a-blanket?’ There are two renditions that I am aware of. One being breakfast sausage links wrapped in actual pancakes, and the other, seemingly more common option, little smokies rolled inside crescents. I can, in fact, remember what is probably the first time I ever had the pancake type of ‘Pigs-in-a-blanket.’ […]

Meaty Bones. It sounds like the user name of some 15 year old girl on an ANA/MIA website. xxmeatyxbonesxx. Or even worse; something you’ll find on Urban Dictionary. Actually the first time I’d seen those words used it was in a recipe by The Minimalist, Mark Bittman, in his “Cooks at Home” book. Pasta with […]

The other day I took the daycare friends to our ‘climbing tree.’ Just naming it that gives this poor, fallen, barkless, excuse of a tree some dignity. In reality it is just an average size, dead tree clinging for dear life unto the crook of another tree. But for 3 and 4 year-olds? It is […]

I was introduced to a recipe about 5 years ago that changed the way I view eating fish and using mayo. This only matters because I HATE mayo, and ate so much dry, boring, salmon growing up that I wouldn’t touch any fish for 7+ years. Seriously, mayo was used in and on everything in my […]

Quite honestly, I don’t know why I haven’t shared this simple recipe for bruschetta with everyone yet. Actually, come to think of it, I don’t know why there aren’t more recipes in general on this site yet. It’s really kind of pathetic if you think about it. But so goes the food blogging life when […]

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