Recipes: Spiced Surprise Brownies and Root Vegetable Rosemary Biscuit Bake
Spiced Surprise BrowniesI am involved in ongoing experiments in how to cook the fennel in our CSA. Neither Phil nor I are at all fond of black licorice, which is what it tastes like, so this is a...
View ArticleEarly Evening
Domestic snapshot: Sitting and sipping warm eggnog and editing Vicesteed while the cats sit in chairs nearby, festival squash bakes in the oven, and the roomba sweeps the floors. Outside, the...
View ArticleNo Doughnuts for Me
Oh, if only I had better luck at frying things! ping.fm/khiWV ping.fm/0Iaon.
View ArticleOn the Nature of Substitutions
Word to the wise: if you're making cornbread and run out of cornmeal, substituting shake 'n bake will work, but it may leave your cornbread oddly reminiscent of fried chicken.
View ArticleNew Schedule, Cooking and Coffee Shops
x-post fb/lj--My current, consistent (okay, consistent-ish--most of the time, but not always) schedule has me at the day job afternoons until 6 PM. This means two major things (in addition to a host of...
View ArticleNot Done Yet, But Feeling Good
I finished my day job project already, jerk chicken will soon be cooking in the slow cooker (the first recipe I'm trying from >Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook), I turned a scribbled...
View ArticleOn Cooking Lemony Things
I'm pretty good at main-dish cooking, but I don't have much of a repertoire of desserts or baked goods, simply because I don't usually make them. They don't usually require exotic ingredients or...
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Mission: Dinner Party - Successful!
I had people over for dinner! It was planned in advance, and we used the good tablecloth and candles, and there was wine and everything! Okay, sure, only planned by a day, but still--we'll call it a...
View ArticleSaturday
Mission: Sleep Ridiculous Hours was a success. Really, it was only the thunderstorms that woke me up. And I feel much more human. Now it is the time to make pflinson (Russian pancakes--really more like...
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Recipe: Strawberry Poke Cake
Strawberry Poke Cake, original recipe from Cook's Country (duplicated here).Notes: Do not try to use frozen whipped cream for the topping and microwave it to soften it. It works--sort of--but it's a...
View ArticleMagical Tea
Apparently, the tea I'm drinking is "wide awake to the ancient juju of the continent where life began."ORLY? I think the copywriter was getting a bit loopy. OTOH, the tea's not bad, and it does indeed...
View ArticleIngredients
So, at one point recently I was desperate for some quick food, so I grabbed a Cliff energy bar. It was pretty tasty, chewy and chocolate-coated and all, so I was rather surprised when I turned it over...
View ArticleWhere Do You Get Your Veggies?
"No need to head to the Farmer's Market! Head to Cub Foods, to fill your basket with fresh produce picked at the peak of the season!" - Pandora ad that just played at me.I find it very interesting that...
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Computer Problems Continue...and So Do Tasty Vegetables
Yesterday, cvalenti* opened up my computer and prepared to install the new power source to make my computer capable of booting up again.Alas, it turns out that the problem was not the power source, but...
View ArticleRecipe: Oz Cake
Oz CakeI'm calling this Oz Cake because it's golden and green and magically delicious, and making it involves whirling things around like a tornado. I don't usually like fennel's licorice taste, but in...
View ArticleSlow-Cooked Cukes
Finding appealing slow-cooker recipes (because it's too hot to cook indoors) that use cucumbers (because I have a CSA share full of 'em) is harder than you might expect. And you might logically expect...
View ArticleBlinky Tacos
(Post 4 of 30 NaBloMo posts--and this is when you see the grim everyday boredom that is my life.)I finally got the equipment to night-bike safely: a blinky red light that attaches to my backpack, a...
View ArticleA Proper Announcement, and FAQs
I've told enough people face-to-face now, I suppose I should make a proper announcement: I'm pregnant! How pregnant? 12 weeks. When will there be a baby? If all goes well, August 2nd. Is it a boy or a...
View ArticleRecipe: Slow-Cooker Stuffing
From my mother-in-law's kitchen, a pretty tasty Thanksgiving stuffing recipe that is cooked in the slow cooker. (Yes, I am finally going through the monstrous stack of accumulated papers and stuff...
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Taxes - Not the Worst Thing Ever After All!
We are not horribly screwed by taxes, for a change! I finished doing them yesterday, and it comes out about even between what we get back from the feds and what we have to pay out to state, with a...
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