Thanks to loucheroo (via knobody) for inspiring me!

INGREDIENTS

• 100 grams ground coffee (I set my mill for 18 cups)
• 2-quart pitcher
• Water
• Milk and sugar to taste

Put ground coffee in pitcher. Fill with water.  Refrigerate for 4-12 hours.  Pour through a filter (drip filter is 100% fine; cheesecloth will also work).  Add milk and sugar to taste.  Jodi prefers about 1/3 ( Read more... )

Yesterday I made beer-cheese soup and a spinach torte. Since they were both delicious, I'm sharing my recipes.

The beer-cheese soup is based on Wisconsin Native's Beer Cheese Soup, but I changed it a bit:

1 cup diced carrots (two carrots ( Read more... )

Nutmeg Bread
850g bread flour ( Read more... )

I'm getting pretty good at coded crossword puzzles -- I finished this one in 1m17s after about 32oz of beer (Double Chocolate Stout and organic weissbier, both from Wild Oats).

I've been looking forward all week to The Pirates of Penzance. I got it on tape from the library. But since Jodi didn't watch it with me last night or tonight (which I'd ( Read more... )

Thank heavens for the Internet Archive!

The recipe for plain ole fudge brownies in the first printing of I'm Just Here for More Food is obviously in need of correction, but the errata are no longer on the site. Fortunately I followed a blogger's link, via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, to an archived copy of errata for I'm Just Here for ( Read more... )

1 bag Morningstar Farms Meal Starters "steak" strips ( Read more... )

I stopped at the grocery store on the way home and got some fresh broccoli, lemons, potatoes and portobello mushrooms. As soon as I came home, I started making Alton Brown's Chocolate Chip Muffins #7. Half the chocolate chips (by mass) were semi-sweet mini-chips, and half were huge honking Ghirardelli bittersweet chips. The cocoa, of course, was ( Read more... )

Yesterday I made some dough in the bread maker with this recipe ( Read more... )