Protein Posts
Welcome to Yogurt Nation (Population: Everyone)
Americans are crazy for yogurt these days. Not pizza. Not french fries. Not even apple pie. Wait…huh? It used to be that you had to go to a specialty store to find anything more exotic than a Columbo or Yoplait. Yogurt was health food. You ate it when you were dieting. You stuck it in [...]
Country-Style Pork Ribs
Country-style pork ribs are just about one of my favorite types of ribs. They’re meaty and big, and absolutely fall apart when slow cooked. The recipe below is a basic one (again, the one my mom used). I change this a lot, depending on who’s coming to dinner and what I have in the house.
BBQ Chicken
Slow cooked tonight. The aluminum foil in the back is a smoke bomb full of hickory chips. We don’t have a smoker (yet). This is a good way to get some honest smokey flavor into BBQ food without one. *** Copyright 2008 The Hungry Mouse™/Jessica B. Konopa. All rights reserved.
Perfectly Melty Fondue
I love cheese. Melted cheese is even better. Melted cheese on bread is about as close to heaven as I think I can get. I’m also very much an 8-year-old at heart, and love food that’s fun to eat. This is the fondue that my mom used to make when I was a kid. After [...]
Medieval Meat Grinding Party
The venerable Lady Otter is headed to the woods for a few weeks, and needs to bring some lamb meatballs with her, as part of a traditional medieval Indian meal she’s making. If she’ll be kind enough to share her recipes when she gets back, I’ll post them up here. Chickpea pancakes First, she made [...]
On the Menu Tonight: BBQ Pork Ribs
These are country-style pork ribs, marinated with soy sauce, garlic, and hot peppers, then cooked low and slow outside. *** Copyright 2008 The Hungry Mouse™/Jessica B. Konopa. All rights reserved.
Crab Rangoon Dip
Crab rangoons have to be one of the best appetizers ever made. (In fact, we probably have one of the only dogs on the planet who comes running when offered one.) My mother’s hot crab dip is basically a dippified version of a crab rangoon filling. It’s amazing with fresh crab—or canned (so shoot me, [...]
Fried Chicken, Done Right
I learned the proper way make fried chicken about five or six years ago when I worked for a friend of mine. She was part owner of a caterer/cafe, which has since (sadly) changed hands. I was working as a freelance writer at the time, and working at the shop got me away from the [...]
