Cooking at Clark Towers

We still have cabbage coming up in the garden, they are small heads, in years past we have had some enormous heads of cabbage but this year they stayed “normal” size which is nice. I have been seeing dirty cabbage recipes all over the internet and I was going to try to make something along those lines but having to work with what I have on hand, this sounded delicious and it ...

I was looking around the internet yesterday morning for an appetizer and came across this recipe from The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen. I thought I would give it a try. The only thing I did differently was the size of the potatoes alluded me. The recipe said to use small potatoes, I guess I took it too literal. I bought a bag of the baby potatoes, I should have paid a littl...

Not only is this the first pecan pie I have made, it is the first one I have actually had a slice, ok maybe 2 slices of. I like sweets but not too sweet. I even drink my ice tea half sweetened half black. I really don’t care for things when they are too cloyingly sweet. I think it has even changed the older I get. Anyways the only reason I made this was it is the state pie fo...

The garden is definitely winding down, yesterday the cucumbers, squash, eggplants, peppers and even the broccoli were all pulled out. The broccoli surprised me, it usually stays for longer than the other plants. We harvested the rest of the potatoes and some carrots and a few turnips.

I have been wanting to make these for awhile, I had picked up some bao buns from the Asian market quite some time ago and they have been sitting in the freezer waiting for me to make something with them. I generally make crispy pork belly with these buns, and I love me some pork belly, however it is a long process to make pork belly and I always have chicken on hand, I rarely...