Author Archive | Giggles

Crispy Panko Baked Fish

What a deal!  I scored a nice piece of cod for $8, reduced more than 50%.  Wow did I feel lucky!  Timing is everything.  Scoring a great deal on a nice piece of cod, my mind could not help to think of fish and chips.   I wanted a nice beer battered piece, deep fried to […]

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Oven Baked Pommes Frites

I don’t know why, but (to me) fries tasted different in Europe.  It wasn’t the fact that they often are dipped in mayo or other exotic sauces, seemingly the fries themselves, had a different flavor.  The fries I most often had in Europe had a tendency towards the long and narrow versus thick and chunky.  […]

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Oatmeal 5 days/5 ways

Pease porridge hot, Pease porridge cold, Pease porridge in the pot, nine days old; Some like it hot, some like it cold, Some like it in the pot, nine days old. When I was just a wee child, last year (not really but it seems like that), my mother would serve me oatmeal.  And I […]

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Motorcycle Monday: Deadwood

With a foot of snow and temperatures of –20F what do Harley riders do?  Throw a party with gambling, drinking and karaoke.  The Big Sky H.O.G. chapter put together a membership night using the theme  “Deadwood”.   I was pleasantly surprised at how well they had organized it, I know it takes a lot of work […]

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Recipe Makeover: Potatoes Romanoff

As soon as I get my Williams-Sonoma catalog I tear through it, looking at every item on every page.  Devouring every recipe, exciting new product and then checking my account and once again realizing that I have the proverbial champagne taste on a beer budget. I may not be able to afford everything I want […]

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Oreo Cookie Brownies

Sometimes you need to make something to go, a special delivery for someone?  Do you know what the best thing about making a dish for someone else is?  It doesn’t matter how many fat and calories it has (bwahaha), I mean it’s the thought that counts.  If you plan it right you also make sure […]

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Motorcycle Monday: Jazz-Blues

What is your lifelong dream?  Do you dream of world travels?  The perfect home?  A cabin in the mountains?  A luxurious vacation in the tropics?  Very few people get to realize a dream come true.  McGyver and I have friends that made their dream come true. We met Jürgen and Sigrid through the H.O.G. Trier […]

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Lemon Granita

Lemon is one of my favorite flavors, I am more of a lemon lover than a chocolate lover (weird, I know).  Mary at One Perfect Bite has been posting lemon recipes for the last couple of weeks, driving me absolutely crazy.  Especially the lemony sweets. Meyer lemons have magically shown up here in Great Falls, […]

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