Travelers Culinary Adventure. Castle Rock for a Ruben
Travel to Castle Rock to find Courtyard Social a delightful find.
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Dinner before the Concert
An elegant summer evening is the setting for the evening of Friends, Fine Music and Good Food.
Watermelon
Some where there is an everything you wanna know about watermelon. Some where. However it is June and it is hot outside. A Short story.?
The watermelon is a vegetable relative of the gourd. It came from Kalahari dessert of Africa. It naturally contains low calories – lots of water about 92% [cool – but who figured that out?] and abundant A and C vitamins. The Juices from todays watermelon are destined to become frozen and transformed into popsicles
Watermelon Popsicles
Hot for August.
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups Seeded watermelon
- 1/2 cup Frozen Strawberries
- 6 tablespoons sugar
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon light cornsyrup
Instructions
- combine in a blender
- strain
- freeze overnight
Tea with friends.
Tea has a unique way of enhancing the significance if any occasion, creating moments of calm, connection and celebration. It is a formal event with a touch of elegance and warmth. Tradition and ceremony: tea ceremony includes the aesthetics, the process and the moment itself. […]
Start of Summer, meeting of friends and the Awesome Crawfish Boil.
Start of summer and the much anticipated crawfish boil:
As the days grow longer and the suns warmth intensifies, the arrival of summertime is eagerly anticipated. One of the invites we look forward to is the gathering of friends at the Crawfish boil. all the neighbors gather an bring something for the buffet. Gathered under the clear blue skis, the table set.
The pour is spectacular. The boil has perfectly cooked potatoes, sausage, corn an crawfish. During this yeas festivities – i had coached on how to approach eating crawfish as it seemed to be a bit of a dilemma for a few guests..
So how to eat crawfish?
In Search of – Quest for the Perfect Ruben Sandwich
According to Omaha lore, the combination of Rye brad, corned beef, swiss cheese and sauerkraut had been dreamed up in 1925 to fed participants in a late night poker game at the Blackstone Hotel in downtown Omaha by a local grocer, Reuben Kulakofsky. The Ruben […]
From the Note Book.
Travel back from Omaha inspired locally grown vegetables from the farmers market to be brought back o the dorm and share with my floor mates. In this month’s Bon Appetit they wrote about the guide to summer and take it outside. 3 on the list […]
Notes to Share. Comfort Food from our Dorm Kitchen
We came back from Creighton today Welcome weekend showed us we have a common area kitchen to work in. My thoughts are to weekly share common food with new friends. A simple “Blue Jay – Blue Berry Cobbler” is one to share on a hot Omaha evening.
10 ounces of Blue Berries 
Step Two, Three and Four 
Berry Cobbler Before Going in the Oven
Berries Backed at the dorm kitchen
cobbler to share
Equipment
- 10" Cast Iron Pan
Ingredients
- 10 oz BlueBerries
- 3 Tbsp lemon Juice fresh
- 2 tsp sugar plus 2/3 cup
- 1 tsp Kosher Salt
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 cup whole milk
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter one stick
- 1 tub cool whip
Instructions
- preheat the oven to 350F
- Toss Blue berries, lemon juice, 2 Tsp sugar and a pinch of salt in a medium bowl.
- using your hand – crush the blueberries. let them sit
- Whisk flour, baking powder, remaining 2/3 cup sugar and the salt. Stir in the milk.
- melt the butter in the cast iron pan.
- remove the pan from the heat: scrape in the batter.
- spread the batter evenly and spoon in the blueberries.
- Bake until the cake is golden brown. 45-50 minutes.
- serve warm with the cool whip
Humorous Culinary Postcard.
receiving a humorous culinary postcard is a delightful treat, akin to enjoying a classic bad dad joke. the post card received from Brandon featuring a cake that had quite an adventure in the kitchen. The cake and the oven did not get along, but at […]