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Earth Hour 2008 - Dinner by Candlelight

We participated in Earth Hour tonight and had a lovely dinner by candlelight.  On the menu was pork tenderloin rubbed with dry mustard, cayenne and garlic, roasted on a bed of sweet onions and cherry tomatoes, with broccoli and cheese sauce.

Kentucky Style Scalloped Potatoes

We picked up a few beautiful yukon gold potatoes today and thought that scalloped potatoes sounded like a good idea.
I dug through some old cookbooks and decided on this recipe for scalloped potatoes.
Since we only had three medium sized potatoes, I figured that the quart of hot milk was a bit too much, so I cut it […]

Whoops!

Look at that, a bunch of days went by so quickly and no posts on RetroFare.
Our bad.  We were busy with our offline life together and just didn’t get organized in time to post all the stuff we had planned.
But we’re back on track, so look for more tasty recipes.

Colcannon

From wikipedia’s article on Colcannon:
Colcannon (Irish: cál ceannan - white head) is a food made from mashed potatoes, kale or cabbage, butter, salt, and pepper. It can contain other ingredients such as milk, cream, leeks, onions, chives, garlic, boiled ham or Irish bacon. At one time it was a cheap, year-round staple food.
We’ve got a traditional […]

Tasty Failed Quiche

This may come as something of a shock given the nature of the site, but I’m not a huge fan of recipes per say.
As an idea, a spark and very loose guidelines they’re wonderful and a healthy shelf of them will always make for a better kitchen. Just never taken much of a particular interest […]

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