How can there be bad kittens? I look around at the shredded piles of toilet paper and I see only good kittens who sometimes do bad things. That said, it is pretty hard to shake the sense that Tangerine is truly a bad, bad kitten pretending at occasional goodness -- what's with all the glowing demon-eyes in the photos!!

Saturday, November 8, 2008

It's pom-pon, not pom-pom


Wikipedia calls them pom-pons

Grandma's Feta Pasta

For supper tonight, we're having one of my favourite recipes.

Grandma’s Feta Pasta

5 to 8 oz crumbled Feta cheese
1 large onion, chopped
1 bell pepper (1/3 green, 1/3 orange, 1/3 red), chopped to bite-sized
4 oz (?) spinach, optional
4 to 8 oz mushrooms, sliced
4 Roma tomatoes, chopped bite size
12 oz pasta (we used mini-farfalle tonight)

Sauté onions
Sauté red pepper/yellow pepper/corn/spinach/mushrooms with onions
Cut into quarters or wedges tomatoes
Sauté briefly the tomatoes with everything else
Add crumbled feta cheese
Add fresh basil if you’ve got some
Mix with cooked pasta.
Serve immediately

Apple Crisp

It is autumn, so tonight we are making Apple Crisp.

Here is the recipe:

Auntie Rae’s Apple Crisp
Rae Jones 1967, adapted by Daniel Chavitage 2001

Ingredients
6 to 8 peeled and sliced apples, enough to fill up 2/3 of a 9x13 pan
2 cups brown sugar
1 cup rolled oats
1 cup flour
2 tsp cinnamon
1 cup melted butter

Preparation
Spread apples in bottom of 9X13 pan
Mix dry ingredients separately
Add melted butter
Pat mixture over top of apples
Bake 1 hour at 375F