This was going to be another one of those where I took a bunch of close-ups and had fun with it. The only problem is that disaster struck and one face of the dish fell apart as I was running out of time

There was this kind of rhyming choose-your-own-adventure game that @wrongjohn was doing for a while. I guess maybe he's left Steem, or taking a break, but it was clever and fun, and there's no reason we

My first dessert entry since I started participating in the Steemit Iron Chef contest! This was so good! And I'm still working on pretty, but I think I'm getting closer: My quenelles are a little rough,

Yesterday in the US it was thanksgiving. It's the end of the harvest season and we're thankful for another year of bounty. So we celebrate with a feast. Turkey is the traditional centerpiece of the meal

Introductions, finally! I hang out on Google+ with a bunch of gamer friends and one of them discovered Steem and in August, pointed a few of us over here. I created an account and started poking around

I made my first aloo gobi last week. It was really good. And then cauliflower came up as the theme ingredient for the week in the Steemit Iron Chef contest and I thought I should try to make some permutation.

More bubbles! These are forming at the top of a three gallon carboy of melomel (fruity mead) must, after only 16 hours with yeast.

Air bubbles trapped in butter against the cast iron background, captured with my iPhone 6.

I'm going to begin this story by whining! See, I took four more pictures of the final plate, but they are miraculously not on my phone. Grrrr! So as a favor, pretend that this image is properly centered

This is the final chapter in my stoplight pepper condiment trilogy. :-) I started with red pepper harissa, and then made a spicy lemon-garlic yellow-pepper sauce, and now this one. For the base of this

Yesterday I wrote about making harissa from red bell peppers. You might have seen in those images that I also roasted up some yellow peppers at the same time. When I was researching harissa, it occurred

Harissa is a spicy north African sauce made from chiles, spices and other stuff. If you Google around the net, you can find many, many varieties. I've bought it a couple times and they had bitter metallic

Fresh herbs! My wife's brother gave us a six-pod AeroGarden almost a year ago. It's one of those things that seemed neat, but maybe a little silly when I first saw it, but has turned into an important

Once again, I'm entering the Steemit Iron-Chef contest. This is my fifth entry, so I guess while I got a late start, I've been here for half the contest. This week I made an appetizer! Potatoes are a rough

My breakfast this morning is: eggs, cheddar cheese, cottage cheese, smoked and roasted Hatch green chiles, synthetic "bacon" bits, and bits of mushroom, blended and then steamed in silicon pods

Nine days ago, I bought my first baby-bananas. The Steemit Iron-Chef contest ingredient for week 9 was bananas and I wanted to step my dish up by using more than one kind. So I did some reading about the

Last night I made this great recipe from Vegan Eats World called Beer Bathed Seitan Stew with Oven Frites. You can see the whole recipe online. It's a delicious meal and makes great leftovers (which I'm

There's this quick, little strategy game, Dicewars. You have stacks of 0-8 dice on each space and when you attack an adjacent space, you roll yours and they roll theirs and whoever has the highest sum,

Autumn has seemed weird this year, at least here in Minnesota. It was summery, but the leaves turned. It was nice and pretty. And then it got pretty cool. It won't get really cold for another couple months,

It's Halloween evening now where I live and the kids are out begging for candy door to door. I think this is about the best holiday. I'm not all goth or whatever, but it just seems like people are actually