Category: Dierdre

Deirdre’s Dance Off

No, I am not going to pile on the details. I’ll save those for the book—either Cooking With Oil, which we hope to issue next month, or Cooking for the Crowd, which will come after all this anniversary celebrating is finally over. And the War. Please. These three really cook the books. My version of […]

Deirdre’s Mid-Week Recipes

You might have heard there are some changes coming up. There was a mild confrontation about whether school now starts with the sun blazing a hundred degrees and Labor Day still in the headlights. Here are some transitional recipes that make September’s arrival more fun! This one is a fun side dish, if I can […]

Deirre’s Side Salads

Production Notes: We had an argument this morning about whether what was expiring today- midnight?- was either the 60 or 90-day ceasefires signed with whoever is running Iran. Miles sighed. He said we need to be alert. The messaging and memes are about low-munitions and low morale on big ships, which is part of the […]

Cooking With Oil

Hey, Gang! Update on the book project and some other items on the agenda! Cooking With Oil is moving from the Galley into production. Actually, that is just one of the things that Fast Eddie from Socotra Legal said we could say. What has actually happened is the rough manuscript, pictures, recipe cards and commentary […]

Seven Minute breakfast for the Watch

Deirdre Galley Note: This is already a busy morning now that Miles is back, though he is still digging out from the big pile near his seat at the Conference Table. He told me to do something quick and tasty for the seven other folks who were drinking Black Rifle Coffee and attempting to look […]

Time Travel Wednesday

When History Can Wait Until Supper With the situation in the Strait of Hormuz apparently on pause—for the moment—we’re taking advantage of the lull to conduct another important operation. Pulled Beef Roast Wednesday. Rocket has command of the main effort, tending two three-pound Wyoming Pure beef roasts rubbed generously with Mama’s BBQ Sprinkles and a […]

Holly’s Autumn Olive

Slow-Cooked Pork Butt Hi, Gang! Holly here, with a chance to start a new week in a new month—and to bring you one of the fine pork projects I have been working on whenever Deirdre spins that arrow thingie around. I served as a consultant to Rocket when he did that hot-dog project and stumbled […]

Dierdre’s Politics and pOTLUCK!

Teriyaki Chicken Thighs For Ten or Twenty “The Rogues Galley” Becomes “The Vixen Kitchen?” OK, that was Splash, and I told him to get out of the Galley. So you can see I have one of those mornings. Miles headed off to Arlington to meet with some finance people to determine whether the President can […]

More Iran Strikes May Mean Feeding Twenty

Busy morning, Folks!. We just wrapped up Production Meeting, and Miles looked like he’d been standing the mid-watch. The Boys stayed up again as the crisis lurched into a twelfth night of strikes and counter-strikes. Congress is heading home for August recess, but around here the Conference Room may be getting busier instead of quieter. […]