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silly kitchen gadget meme
Bold the ones you have and use at least once a year, italicize the ones you have and don’t use, strike through the ones you have had but got rid of.
I wonder how many pasta machines, breadmakers, juicers, blenders, deep fat fryers, egg boilers, melon ballers, sandwich makers, pastry brushes, cheese knives, electric woks, miniature salad spinners, ( Read more... ) -
grad school thoughts
Spoke with my advisor today, and the PhD program at BU is being crossed off the list. Right now, BC's combined MSW/MA in Pastoral Ministry is leading the list, with other Boston programs on it's heels. The non-Boston programs under consideration - MSW programs at Smith, Univ. Washington, Univ. of Maryland, Univ. of Michigan. Penn is also in the ( Read more... ) -
new recipes :)
Normally when I make rack of lamb it's just a tossed together marinade of orange juice, soy sauce, salt, pepper, and then a combo of spices. Since our aerogarden has been sprouting herbs like weeds I did a quick search for fresh mint recipes with lamb. Found a Cumin, Honey & Mint Lamb Chops recipe that I took and modified. No cumin in the house, so ( Read more... ) -
Pumpkin Spice Roll
So, to preserve this recipe I picked up, I'm posting it here. This was today's snack for Anglican reading group - a pumpkin spice roll with cream cheese filling. I made it on a whim because I was pie-ed out with baking pies for the bake off, so i wanted to do something different - but wanting to keep the pumpkin theme since American thanksgiving is ( Read more... ) -
Recipe: banana bread
Searched out a banana bread recipe since we had quite a few ripe bananas. Turned out quite well.
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culinary experiments - Success!
So, I made strawberry rhubarb pie today for mother's day. And well, there was leftover pie crust (because I made a lattice crust) and leftover strawberries. So, what did I do? Turned it into strawberry pierogi. Rolled out the pie dough, cut out circles, wrapped the strawberries with pie crust, dropped them in boiling water, took them out when they ( Read more... ) -
adventures in cooking
So, pulled off a quick four course meal for bad_influence's birthday:
- lobster bisque
- spinach salad with strawberry & feta topped with homemade vinaigrette
- provencal lamb chops & couscous
- dulce de leite wafers (from brasil), topped with lychee sorbet & dulce de leite ice cream, fresh strawberries, and creme caramel sauce from V. Sattui vineyard ( Read more... )
- lobster bisque