I posted this a few months back: Seekh Kabobs. It was a bit soft to actually grill, but we all liked the taste ( Read more... )

OMG. Delicious. This recipe arrived in my email from Penzey's today and I decided to try it.

My mods are in blue.

Seekh Kabobs

If you don’t feel like fussing with skewers, the mixture would also make great burgers.

1 1/4 lbs. fresh ground beef (80/20 is a good mix); frozen doesn’t work as well2 tsp.

CAYENNE PEPPER About 1/2 tsp2 tsp. salt ( Read more... )

It's straight, give or take spicing, from the Penzey's catalog. I did go to the website and didn't find it linked, so I'm typing it in, with my minute changes.

Note that Penzey's, always a bunch of suckers :) for a cooking/kindness/happiness angle, has some wonderful stories on their site about four of the couples who challenged Wisconsin's ( Read more... )

I have had a herd of 69 blue hippos on my dining room table. I started this yesterday but didn't finish til today.

This morning, they were eyeless (note: I will NOT make any jokes about the "eyeless" gene, which is the master regulator of eye formation in Drosophila, though my spouse, who I guess has been listening to me chatter this quarter, did ( Read more... )

Something funny that has taught me a lot about cooking and baking... every year I do a major holiday cookie bake. Seriously, probably over 1000 cookies. For teachers, coaches, tutors, anyone whose gullet I think I can shove cookies down ( Read more... )

Last year I was feeling clever because I was acing molecular biology. This year, I'm feeling very clever because I managed a cool bit of baking...

This:

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The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook by Deb Perelman.

I know I've linked to recipes on Deb's blog before, and they're all pretty damn good ( Read more... )

The original recipe was here. She suggests 4 duck eggs (yech, sorry), or 5 medium regular eggs, but I found that made them much to eggy, so took it to 4. Not whirring the oats first probably works, but it's an easy step that makes my life easier. Also her whole rigmarole with the oats and soaking to make sure the oats don't leech good stuff out of ( Read more... )

So, the week of no rice! So far, we're good ( Read more... )

Dh, Perry, and I are off for a bike ride today (down by Lacey/Yelm, plan is about 40 miles ( Read more... )