Recipes from Angola

 Recipes from Angola I really needed another week off, but I managed to limp my way into the kitchen this week anyway. By the way these antibiotics make me loopy (the other day I caught myself trying to put the flour in the refrigerator, and when making chicken and buttermilk dumplings I put the cream in the dumplings...

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Taking a week off ...

Last week I was complaining (again) about being sick, and this week I'm upping the anti. Evidently my unpleasant but routine bout of influenza has turned into pneumonia, so this week I'm bowing out. I've got my antibiotics in the medicine cabinet, and so far they haven't killed me so unless that changes I'll do Angola next week. I also have a do-over coming up for Andorra (provided I can find some trout). So see you then, I'm going to go make some...

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Recipes from Andorra

I am sick. Yes, I know I was crying sick only a couple of weeks ago, but this time it's knock-down, drag-out, 100+ temperature, coughing, sore muscles influenza. So although I wouldn't say I half-assed this week's meal, I did not go in the elaborate direction I was planning to. Of course it wasn't entirely my fault. Mostly...

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Recipes from American Samoa

 Recipes from American Samoa The night I cooked a meal from American Samoa, my kids ate everything on their plates. That's because I gave them mac and cheese and put them to bed early. It's not that there aren't any recipes from American Samoa that are American-kid-friendly, it's just that there was one in particular...

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