Author: elderjscott

Scott Elder is a self-taught home cook with a passion for cooking real food, celebrating outstanding local Ohio ingredients & constantly broadening his culinary horizons. He's a new daddy and an HR professional turned pediatric ICU nurse who revels in connecting with others. On his blog he shares his gastronomic exploits, travels and other life adventures.

How to Prepare Leeks

To prepare the leeks, I rinse them well, chop off all of the dark green (usually right where the leaves separate from the stalk) and the bottom 1/2″ of the root end.  Now, slice them once from end to end.  Lay flat side on the cutting board and cut into 1/2″ wide half-moon shapes.  Set…

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Rhubarb Cocktail with OYO Vodka

I saw some fresh Rhubarb at the grocery store last week.  Having never cooked with it, I decided to seek out some recipes for inspiration and ran into this one and thought, “Why not?” Ingredients:

Poisson en Papillote

One of my favorite things to do is entertain, filling the seats around our table with good friends enjoying whatever anyone puts on it.  Now that we have a proper table–visible in the header at the top of the page–we’ll definitely be doing more of it! So, when I wanted to try a new method…

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And So It Begins…

Today, I enter the blog-o-sphere where I’m sharing things I find intriguing, delicious and worth the binary code. Random ideas of what may come: life happenings  –  trips, occasions, celebrations and whatever comes this way recipes  –  the good, bad, healthy, decadent, vegatarian, carnivorous, GF, DF, low-salt and certainly some involving EtOH ramblings  –  my background, current…

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