Aunt Ione's Bloody Mary Mix RecipeI made a huge batch of this today using some of our latest haul of Green Zebra tomatoes. Initially I thought it'd be a "slimy" mary mix, but the bright green flesh color dulled a bit and the carrot bits darkened it too, so now I'm calling it a zombie marie mix ( Read more... )

update re: the chocolate buttercrunch matzo


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Thanks to that secret restaurant recipe cookbook, I unlocked the mystery of cheddar biscuits tonight.

This is about a half batch, measurements are approximate and will vary slightly depending on the relative humidity in your kitchen, as is the case with all doughy things. :)

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We got sunchokes from the farmers' market this weekend; the lovely folks at Veenstra's Vegetables had a recipe box too, so I grabbed a page that had a bunch of ideas for using them. After reading up a bit about them, it sounds like sunchokes are very easy to maintain and propagate, so I'll consider buying extra this week and planting a small bed of ( Read more... )

I found a really good flour tortilla Instructable! They're a little more labor intensive than corn tortillas: the dough requires more ingredients, time, and work; and you roll out the tortillas instead of using a tortilla press, which in my experience works very well for corn, but not flour tortilla dough.


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I saw this on a cooking show this weekend and tried my own version. Lately I'm finding the price of veggie burgers distasteful (har) so I thought it'd be good to get back to basics. I used to make something similar with falafel mix, dry veggie burger mix, and mashed black beans. I think these are a little better, definitely have more of that true ( Read more... )

I've wanted to try making my own buns for a while. Really happy with the results, though I was skeptical before baking. The dough didn't rise as much as I'm used to (compared to other breadstuff I've baked), but expanded quite a bit in the short baking time.

I used this recipe, but halved it to yield 8 buns.

Baked buns:

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I didn't know about blondies until I saw Flay do a throwdown for them. I found this recipe, which is exactly 2/3 of Flay's recipe on the food network site, except she didn't use baking powder. So, I added 1/2 tsp baking powder during the flour and salt step ( Read more... )