Archive for the ‘cooking & food’ Category
My first loaf of bread from the master recipe in Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day came out small but delicious and perfect. A slice of it + some homemade butter and a sprinkle of grey celtic sea salt just made the perfect snack. If only I had a triple latte to go with [...]
Instructables – how to make butter with stand mixer Food Renegade – make butter with a blender over the hill and on a roll – 5 minutes to make butter I made butter last night using the instructions on the 3rd link but really I think that made it harder than it had to be. [...]
Title: CAFE DE OLLA (MEXICAN SPICED COFFEE) Categories: Mexican, Beverages Yield: 6 servings 3/4 c Brown sugar, firmly packed 3 x Cinnamon sticks 6 x Cloves 6 tb Coffee (NOT instant) 6 x Julienne slices orange zest In a large saucepan, heat 6 cups of water with the brown sugar, cinnamon sticks, and cloves over [...]
If we buy a house with a massive mortgage we will have to start budgeting more closely. Right now we are all over the map and don’t really track how much goes where. I always feel a niggling worry in the back of my head like I should be carefully budgeting. Does anyone else think [...]
Vim and I made cupcakes this weekend. The recipe from the latest Cooks Illustrated. I was expecting them to be sooooo gooood. and then I was mostly disappointed. I think I hate butter cream frosting. The joy of cooking black bottom cupcakes are better and the cream cheese and white chocolate frosting I make is [...]
Vim’s birthday was yesterday and I planned on making him a cheesecake but in the process of looking for a good recipe I found this Godiva recipe for lemon cupcakes with white chocolate lemon cream cheese frosting. I decided to make BOTH. The cupcake recipe calls for taking the cupcake out of it’s wrapper, turning [...]
Have you ever cooked an onion and had it smell horrible and tinny? I have been making beef stroganoff since I was like 15 and one time when I was about 25 I made it and when I cooked the onion part the tinny smell happened and ruined the entire batch. and so I went [...]
Lately I’ve been drinking Dark and Stormies: dark rum, lime juice, ginger beer, lime wedge, candied ginger slice. Someone told me about the Earl Greyhound, Earl grey infused vodka with grapefruit juice, which I am now dying to try. It’s not like I frequent fancy bars anymore and have the latest in drinks at my [...]
FoodProof is launching today! I’ve been on the beta for this site a few months now and it’s pretty great. I search online for recipes all the time but hadn’t found a good place to keep all my own recipes. And having all my own recipes online is something that I seriously needed. Plus, it’s [...]
He makes his excited face in this video and I like how at one point I mutter “eggs and toast” under my breath. Just be thankful that I didn’t post the clip where I am singing my breakfast song. It goes like this: Eggs and Toast! Eggs and Toast! It’s the breakfast! We love the [...]
I just went grocery shopping hungry. Always a shifty sort of thing to do as it could go well or it could end up in a free for all in which you get home with 40 pounds of meat and some peanut butter. Usually I want to go to the new whole fuds near my [...]
Hola! Oh, I’ve been all kinds of crafty lately but busy with other stuff, too. Like wallowing in my gore and such other healthy activities. I have the Christmas crafting season of 2007 to thank for stumbling across the cake in a jar concept on Angry Chicken and Super Eggplant. Thanks! It’s a fucking cake [...]
