Pot o' Pintos

Oven-Ready

Casserole with home-grown cherry tomatoes ready to enter the oven.

txrad Squeezes His Balls...

...in the kitchen now making hamburger buns.

Flowers & Taters

How Sick Is This?

Giving basil some water prior to going on top of a pizza is like that sterile swab they do on the death row inmates' arms prior to the lethal injection, is it not? Wouldn't want to give them an infection moments before we kill them!

Last meal for the deceased!

Red and Green

The broccoli and red bell pepper prior to becoming a casserole this week.

Fresh Cherry Tomatoes

Over a spicy cheese & rice casserole. Delicious!

Deep Dish Chicago Pizza

Joe can dis this if he wants but what a damn fine pizza presentation, with home-grown tomatoes no less!

Nothing wrong with New York; great city. Nothing wrong with Chicago; great city.

Different cuisine styles. That simple.

But this is Texas-style. HUGE jalapeño involved. Deal with it.

Oatmeal Boiling

Breakfast is served ...rather late.

Cremini

Once in awhile we deviate from the portobello, in favor of.... baby portobello. Tonight is such a night. Pizza in the works.

Chopped Veggies

The veggies in last night's southwestern rice casserole prepared by txrad. Gotta love that color!

Just To Annoy Nicole

This week's breakfast is ready. Blueberry muffins with one banana which was in the last stages. I was short one egg so that helped.

Broccoli Casserole

Maybe Bob isn't allergic to anything in this. txrad makes it two or three times a month. Great right out of the oven... loses something in the evil microwave the next day.

The Secondary Muffin Master

I've been wanting to bake muffins for several weeks and can never get in there to do it. txrad came home from the store today with some bananas and whipped up a batch this afternoon. While I consider myself to be the Muffin Master, I can't tell you how good these are. YUM! He chose bananas instead of my usual blueberry or raspberry because he doesn't like berries. And I'm very OK with that choice.

Collard Green Chiffonade

Peas Please

Red & Green

txrad is trying a new meal tonight. It involved tofu, some special sauce, and this colorful array of roasted red pepper (from a can) and green peas. I can hardly wait.

The sauce unfortunately is brown. I'm sure it will be delicious, but I said, "under less ideal drinking conditions involving crappy alcohol, this could be a really bad vomit session.... all we need are carrots."

Lucky Black-Eyed Peas for 2009

With dried pasilla powder (from pasillas we grew), cumin and coriander just before the smoked paprika was added.

Collard Greens With Spice

Soul Food Night

The cooktop and Scanpans get a serious workout during the preparation of macaroni & cheese, beans, and greens. "Hot Surface" is right. And I have trained txrad quite well (North Dakota native) to handle the soul food preparation while I do other important things.