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Off the cuff stale bread concoction of yesterday ( Read more... )

Sesame lime chicken, second draft: reasonable food, but it needs some work. Juice and zest of two limes, some soy sauce, some sesame oil, some minced ginger in syrup, and a little apple cider made a marinade for a bit shy of two pounds of chicken tenderloin. The marinated chicken was dipped in sesame seeds, arranged in one layer in a pan (a bit ( Read more... )

Last night I tried to make a roasted-cauliflower-and-onions dish that farwing had described to me a while back. I chopped up a head of cauliflower and four medium-small onions, tossed them with some olive oil and salt and pepper, and put them in a 9x13 pan, and baked them at 425F for about an hour, stirring every so often. farwing came home just as I'd taken ( Read more... )

Spiced brownies (cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, and black pepper) made me very happy this afternoon. Two of us polished off a batch in maybe half an hour and looked around for more. Going to BJs did, too. I have thirty pounds of flour, a quantity of chocolate nearly as ludicrous, limes, and other promising ingredients. (This involved ( Read more... )

I think golden russets are my favorite apples. (I'm sure it helps that I've only ever had them fresh picked in season.) They're crisp and sweet and tart and juicy and apple-y in a balance that appeals to me a lot. They can be ugly apples, though, especially when the russetting is thin and uneven, like the ones I got at the farmer's market in ( Read more... )

There's a space between things like stew or pasta sauce, where pretty much any reasonable thing will work (and I'm happy with variation), and baking, where I want to vary things in reasonably well thought out ways from known working recipes -- a space where I want some moderately specific effect, and can produce something kind of like it that's ( Read more... )

Six loaves of banana bread made (two chocolate); two loaves of banana bread eaten (one chocolate). The chocolate banana bread came out a bit dryer and less chocolate-y than usual -- probably I shouldn't have reduced the milk for the chocolate version, though that improved the basic one, and I should really measure my "generous half cup" of cocoa ( Read more... )