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One of the things I had wanted to post here, as an aide memoire to myself, is this recently unvented recipe for torta-rustica-esqe quiche, a sort of riff on the wonderful torta rustica at Tweets Cafe in Edison, WA ( Read more... )

I've puddled around with trying to make a decent own dipping sauce for Trader Joe's gyoza, and never been quite happy with the result, but I think having knuckled under and finally added sugar, I may be closer to something like what I was wanting. Here, mostly for my own reference, and that of anyone else who may care, is today's recipe:


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I thought I had already blogged a version of this salad/dressing recipe but now I can't find it, so I'm (re-?)posting for my own reference -- this time with adequate tagging ( Read more... )

Well, not bad for a first try ( Read more... )

Today I'm trying to salvage some more of this year's apple crop and so I hauled out the juicer extractor and am making apple juice with some of the windfalls. It's a bit dismaying how little juice and how much discarded pulp the extractor produces, so I'm also using some of that leftover pulp for another go at apple spice cake with a box mix. In ( Read more... )

So dinner was particularly nice today, and I was especially pleased with my experimental variant on the Asian-style dressed salad ( Read more... )

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