Jacky Hackett: Cooking, eating, reading, riding my bike that goes nowhere — living my best porch life.
Last week my daughter asked if she could make this Ramen Noodles with Miso Pesto recipe for dinner. Um, yes please! It was an amazing dish. She even went grocery shopping for the ingredients. As it turned out she could not find miso so she improvised by making this substitute with ingredients we had in…
The Instant Pot is still proving to be a great addition to our kitchen. I use it a few time a week to get dinner on the table. Sure, I could make a lot of recipes on the stove top, but I love that I can set it and walk away to do other things….
We are wrapping up a balmy 50° winter weekend. It was like pea soup out there tonight. But of course we’ll be back to freezing in a few days. Sharing this soup that I make back when the weather was what we refer to in these parts as Chiberia. This soup will stick to your…
Three day weekends are the best! After the hustle of the holidays I was well prepped to do a whole lotta nothing. Just completing on of my most unproductive weekends on records. Unless putting a dent in my Netflix queue is considered productive. I really enjoyed My Next Guest with David Letterman. The interview with…
Any time I am looking to make soup I look no further than The Daily Soup Cookbook. I’ve made a good number of the recipes in the nearly twenty years that I have had the book. It is actually in sad shape, the spine is pretty messed up. This recipe caught my eye this weekend…
After conquering the cassoulet I was left with the breasts and the carcass. A tip, wrapping the carcass in foil and sticking it in the fridge will leave you with lots of duck juice come morning. Yuck! I froze the breasts for later, but got to looking for a use for the carcass. Google to…
This weekend we had a fabulous dinner at the chef’s table. We got to see all the chef action close up right in the kitchen. We even got to pitch in ad help prepare, chop, stir, and even cook. This was no ordinary chef’s table either, well actually that is exactly what it was. We…
Last weekend was one of the most unproductive weekends on record for me. Seriously. Literally the only thing I managed to do was cleaning and organizing the freezer. I found a lot of Summer goodies waiting to be enjoyed. No better time than the present. At the end of the Summer, when tomatoes are ripening…
Saturday was the block’s annual Blocktoberfest, the weather was absolutely perfect. Two constants at our block party are the tie-dye and the chili contest. Both were stellar this year… The chili competition was tough this year, they were all so good it was hard to vote for only three. I entered with Biz’s Best Buffalo…
A great variety this week. We were headed out to a tailgate so I used the tomatoes, peppers, and onion to make a quick fresh salsa. Just zipped it in the food processor with some garlic. The Broccoli was simply steamed and used to bulk up my breakfast omelets. A good chunk of the hot…