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Marlboro Man's Birthday Dinner

 

The Sushi-on-a-Cattle Ranch Lodge weekend giveaway is still going strong. Feel free to continue entering until tonight.

Meantime, today's Marlboro Man's birthday. Finally, after two long weeks, he's my age again.

I wrote a birthday tribute to him because I like him.

Happy Birthday Marlboro Man

While Marlboro Man spends the day feeding cattle and getting stuck in the mud 407 times, the girls and I will be making Marlboro Man a feast of his favorite delights. Here's what's on the menu for...

Surf and Turf: A Weekend Cooking Giveaway

It's a fact of life: nothing goes hand in hand like sushi and cattle ranching.

Nothing.

Last year around this time, Marlboro Man brought a sushi chef to the ranch for an interactive sushi demonstration and feast so I'd feel better about my fortieth birthday. It was such fun, so delicious, and I got very, very fat in a matter of three hours. I loved every minute of it. You can read more about it here:

Sushi Day on the Ranch, 2009

It was the most beautiful night of my entire life. Wasabi...

Mocha Silk Pie

Yesterday I experimented.

I experimented with pie.

And the results. Oh, the results. I don't know what to do, say, think, or feel. I don't know where to go. It was just so very delicious.

A note: this beautiful pie contains raw eggs. This does not bother me in the least, and I encourage you not to really worry about it if you're good and healthy. The risk of actually becoming sick from eating raw eggs is very low. But if you are immunocompromised, pregnant, or gettin' on in years, you...

Italian Meatball Soup

This is a hearty, delicious, make-you-feel-good soup that's equally suited for a weeknight meal or a casual supper with friends. Bite-sized meatballs, made extra delicious with freshly grated Parmesan and minced garlic, are added to a flavorful broth that's stock (pun intended) full of vegetables. Serve it with a big loaf of crusty Italian bread and plenty of extra Parmesan and the world will immediately feel like a warmer, kinder, gentler place.

I love that quality in a soup.

 

 

The Cast...

Perfect Pound Cake

This is a beautiful, moist, flavorful, delicious, yummy, happy pound cake…and it contains pop.

Important question: do you say "pop" to describe soft drinks? I do. I tried to resist it, I did…but soft drinks are "pop" around here, and it's cemented in my lexicon forever.

I used to say "coke". Whether it was Sprite, Dr. Pepper, Diet Pepsi, or Fresca, if I had a hankering for something fizzy I'd always say "I need a coke."

But then the Wranglers came into my life. It's been "pop" ever since.

...

Ice Cream Pie with Easy Caramel Sauce

I can't think of anything more logical than making an ice cream pie in the dead of winter, can you?

Oh…you can?

Shoot! I shouldn't have asked!

This is one of the great recipes from my mom's recipe binder—that blessed binder she accidentally left at my house one bright and sunny day a couple of years ago, the one I intentionally forgot to return for many, many months, the one I raided and pillaged and pilfered and thieved before I finally, at long last, returned it.

I love my mother's...

Perfect Potatoes au Gratin

Is there even such a thing as "bad" potatoes au gratin? I really don't think there is. And that makes the title of this recipe even more weighty.

This is a very basic, but exceedingly delicious, version of the much-beloved side dish.

Serve it to people you love. If they don't already love you back, they will.

 

 

Zee Cast of Characters: russet potatoes, heavy cream, whole milk, flour, garlic, salt, pepper, and a little softened butter. And some sharp cheddar.

Good. Very good.

Very, very...

Perfect Potatoes Au Gratin

Is there even such a thing as "bad" potatoes au gratin? I really don't think there is. And that makes the title of this recipe even more weighty.

This is a very basic, but exceedingly delicious, version of the much-beloved side dish.

Serve it to people you love. If they don't already love you back, they will.

 

 

Zee Cast of Characters: russet potatoes, heavy cream, whole milk, flour, garlic, salt, pepper, and a little softened butter.

Good. Very good.

Very, very, very good.

 

 

Preheat...

Dulce de Leche Coffee

 

It's cold here, and it's about to get colder. Friday is supposed to be zero, which likely doesn't faze those of you reading this who live in North Dakota, Minnesota, or in the frozen plains of Antarctica (and if that applies to you, congratulations on the internet access!)—but it very much fazes cattle ranchers in northern Oklahoma who make their living being outside every day.

And I'd venture a guess that it very much fazes the cattle. Fortunately, God gave them thick hides, natural...

The Lost Recipe: Boston Baked Beans

 

Sorry about all the beans lately. I promise this isn't Bean Week. Swear!

See, I finally found this lost folder of food photos I took last year.

Well, I guess they weren't lost since I'd completely forgotten they existed. Seriously—I made this pot of beans, took photos, and never, ever thought about them again. Who does that?

I do that. I take my recipes for granted. I cook, I eat, and I forget. I'm not fit to be called a foodblogger!

And actually, this isn't even a recipe. I don't even...