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I was having a dinner party with two of my best friends and a new roommate. I'd had a lovely plum-and-blackberries-in-rosemary-syrup dessert planned -- I had to bring sliced plums, water, sugar, a...
the Chocolate & Zucchini cookbook has an INTENSE chocolate cookie recipe which is:
* A chocolate cookie,
* with chocolate chips,
* and cacao nibs.
It's easy, i...
I tried a surprisingly good recipe for breakfast recently - oranges IN orange marmelade. Take about one orange and 2 tablespoons orange marmelade per person; segment the orange(s) and put in a bow...
I have a lovely recipe for a cheese-and-vegetable pasty that I used to make a lot, which involved a couple carrots, celery, leeks, and a chopped-up turnip as the vegetables in the filling.
I've been making black-eyed peas for a couple years now, along with some collard greens. This year I also learned that in the Southwest, it's good luck to eat pozole stew on New Year's Eve -- so t...
One dissent about the Williams-Sonoma one -- mine stopped displaying anything at all after only about a year. It still works -- at least I assume so, because it still beeps when I do things to it ...
When I was a kid, my mother asked me to go pick some chives for her in the garden we had in the back yard. I had only a fuzzy idea of what chives looked like -- and that's why I uprooted all of he...
I made a mix of chai spices that I was only going to give to a couple people this year -- but then I innocently posted "my house smells amazing" as my facebook update, and then explained why. And ...
I have a bookshelf devoted solely to cookbooks. Fortunately I have the floor space for it.
But -- the reason I have so many is because my interests/uses for them are so broad. There'...
I had an unfortunate reaction to the cheese pasties I made last night (I used some chopped turnip, and discovered THE HARD WAY that I have an intolerance for turnip), and was looking for something ...
A friend of mine told a story about how her sister stayed behind to bake a cake while the rest of the family was on an outing. They returned to find her sitting in front of the oven, scraping burn...
Somewhere I have a recipe for a quick watermelon sorbet which uses only two ingredients: you freeze cubes of watermelon, and then to make the sorbet you whirl them in a food processor with a drizzl...
I make my own liqueurs now and then. I've found the amaretto is in heavy rotation -- as is this apricot-cardamom liqueur which takes six months to infuse and is DIVINE.
Interestingly, I found these a little too sweet. I think I have a taste for VERY dark chocolate or something.
Mdeatherage, two squares of chocolate usually refers to 2 squares o...
sometimes it happens.
Last night I had a couple friends over for dinner, and I'd planned on a lovely-sounding dessert of poached plums in a rosemary syrup with fresh blackberries sti...
"what's the big deal, water is a consistant resource? Could someone explain this to me please."
It is and it isn't a "consistant resource" depending on where you are. A lot of the big...
Please to be adding Steve's Authentic Key Lime Pies in Red Hook to the "Independent Food Artisans" list. They sell only three things: Key Lime pies (in three different sizes -- 10 inch, 8 inch, an...
Latest Comments...
I was having a dinner party with two of my best friends and a new roommate. I'd had a lovely plum-and-blackberries-in-rosemary-syrup dessert planned -- I had to bring sliced plums, water, sugar, a...
the Chocolate & Zucchini cookbook has an INTENSE chocolate cookie recipe which is: * A chocolate cookie, * with chocolate chips, * and cacao nibs. It's easy, i...
I tried a surprisingly good recipe for breakfast recently - oranges IN orange marmelade. Take about one orange and 2 tablespoons orange marmelade per person; segment the orange(s) and put in a bow...
I have a lovely recipe for a cheese-and-vegetable pasty that I used to make a lot, which involved a couple carrots, celery, leeks, and a chopped-up turnip as the vegetables in the filling.
I've been making black-eyed peas for a couple years now, along with some collard greens. This year I also learned that in the Southwest, it's good luck to eat pozole stew on New Year's Eve -- so t...
One dissent about the Williams-Sonoma one -- mine stopped displaying anything at all after only about a year. It still works -- at least I assume so, because it still beeps when I do things to it ...
Span cleanup on aisle two....
When I was a kid, my mother asked me to go pick some chives for her in the garden we had in the back yard. I had only a fuzzy idea of what chives looked like -- and that's why I uprooted all of he...
I made a mix of chai spices that I was only going to give to a couple people this year -- but then I innocently posted "my house smells amazing" as my facebook update, and then explained why. And ...
For me, Sage runs a close second to rosemary, both of which I have growing on my windowsill.
I have a bookshelf devoted solely to cookbooks. Fortunately I have the floor space for it. But -- the reason I have so many is because my interests/uses for them are so broad. There'...
I had an unfortunate reaction to the cheese pasties I made last night (I used some chopped turnip, and discovered THE HARD WAY that I have an intolerance for turnip), and was looking for something ...
A friend of mine told a story about how her sister stayed behind to bake a cake while the rest of the family was on an outing. They returned to find her sitting in front of the oven, scraping burn...
Somewhere I have a recipe for a quick watermelon sorbet which uses only two ingredients: you freeze cubes of watermelon, and then to make the sorbet you whirl them in a food processor with a drizzl...
I make my own liqueurs now and then. I've found the amaretto is in heavy rotation -- as is this apricot-cardamom liqueur which takes six months to infuse and is DIVINE.
Interestingly, I found these a little too sweet. I think I have a taste for VERY dark chocolate or something. Mdeatherage, two squares of chocolate usually refers to 2 squares o...
sometimes it happens. Last night I had a couple friends over for dinner, and I'd planned on a lovely-sounding dessert of poached plums in a rosemary syrup with fresh blackberries sti...
....I have three very ripe fresh peaches on my counter RIGHT NOW. Oh God, I have to do this.
"what's the big deal, water is a consistant resource? Could someone explain this to me please." It is and it isn't a "consistant resource" depending on where you are. A lot of the big...
Please to be adding Steve's Authentic Key Lime Pies in Red Hook to the "Independent Food Artisans" list. They sell only three things: Key Lime pies (in three different sizes -- 10 inch, 8 inch, an...