I have discovered a new Friday-friendly, kid-approved dish:  Pasta alla Vodka!

( Text of the recipe, in case the original site dies or gets misplaced. )

I just had/made the most awesome Sidecar. :D ( Read more... )

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My Spiced Cider vodka infusion experiment has come to a successful conclusion!


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Just jotting this down . . .  there's drama over in another forum and someone was feeding a troll with it.

( Because I'm using my lj for scratch paper... )

I'm teaching myself a few cocktails beyond the un-screw-up-able Black Russian, that also avoid ingredients that are going to cause a lot of waste, i.e., bottles of tonic water, exotic fruit juices that I don't drink otherwise.  From this, I discovered that even if I end up with cirrhosis, I will not have scurvy.  These are my current favorites:

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You know what?  I make a pretty decent Margarita, the recipe for which I wanted to jot down before I lose my paper notes ( Read more... )

. . . for the sensitive tummy!   I generally can't eat beef or dairy, so I have been working on revising a pastitio recipe so that I can eat it.  For the uninitiated, pastitio is a Greek pasta casserole, with a tomato and meat sauce layer on the bottom and an alfredo-ish white sauce layer on top.

( RECIPE! )

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Corn Muffins

(I like to take a logical approach, what with having just the one measuring cup, so I set up all the dry stuff before putting anything wet in it.)

In a mixing bowl, put:
  1 1/2 cups flour
  3/4 cup sugar (a little on the sweet side, but to each his own)
  3 tsp baking powder
  1 tsp salt
Stir and set aside.

In another bowl, put:
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