So many recipes, so little time

We have a freezer full of containers of stock that Andrew made this week.  And it's coming on winter here in the great southern land, so my mind is on soup.  I am about to make a pot of  leek and potato.  Everything chopped up and is ready to go in the pot. While I…

Chili con carne

The chili turned out quite well. Just the right amount of bite and a bit of my secret weapon - a chunk of dark chocolate. My friend Ange gave me a bar of Lindt 70% dark chocolate with orange peel, so some of that went in. Went well with the cornbread from yesterday. Mmmmmmm.

And while we’re on the topic of old cookbooks…

Another cookbook that I bought during my Tempe years (1976 - 1979) was the somewhat alternative Tassajara Bread Book. My husband baked bread from this book in the 1990s and reckoned that he felt 'at one with the dough'. Well the book was brought to us by the Zen Mountain Centre in Tassajara Springs California,…