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March 2009

Welcome to my peep show

 Hello, Ladies and Gents.  My name is Cottontail, Peter Cottontail.  But you can call me P. I’d like to welcome you to my peep show.  I’m sure you’ll enjoy the affair.  I’ve got your new spring chick-a-dees, your old hens, and some chicks pulling some new tricks all for your amusement.  Settle in and enjoy [...]

Egg-cellent Gnocchi

Remember when I held your hand and we ventured into gnocchi world with my vegan recipe?  We had a lesson about how to pronounce these “pillows of yum.”  And we had a lesson on how to form the precious little dumplings.  In the end, those little babies were victims of over-boiling… So here I try [...]

My mind is in the gutter

Forgive me.  My mind is the gutter, and I cannot get it out.  It’s like that bowling ball, repeatedly thrown by the weak-armed chicken-chested teenage boy trying to impress his crush, that just keeps veering to the right.  Gutter Ball. I have been trying for 2 days to come up with a different title for [...]

Walnut Couscous

Walnut Couscous 1/4 cup chopped onion 1/4 cup chopped celery 1 and 1/4 cups water 1/2 t salt 1/8 t black pepper 1 cup couscous 1/2 cup peas (frozen is fine) 3 T chopped walnuts, toasted Heat a nonstick pan sprayed with oil over medium heat. Add onion and celery; saute 3 minutes.  In a [...]

Midnight musings make magnificent mornings

I need to confess something.  I am *slightly* obsessed with a food that millions of people in this world find absolutely repulsive.  I’ve been known to regularly eat it 3 times a day for weeks in a row.  It is indeed true that I have woken up in the middle of the night, eaten this [...]