Category: food
Bread
Come home soon, children! Eat the bread:
Dr Oetker Nostalgia
This morning I was cleaning cookbooks—note, please, that the kitchen is the worst possible place to keep cookbooks, they get totally nasty and greasy—and I found this:
For those of you who do not read Suetterlin with ease, the title is “Dr. Oetker Schulkochbuch” (Dr. Oetker’s Teaching Cookbook). This is the fourth edition from 1937. While [...]
Let Them Eat Bread!
With my husband away for two weeks, my frustration with the bread situation here has come to a boil.
We make our bread. By “we”, I mean mostly my husband (it used to be mostly me, but now I have a full time job). With him gone, we’ve been reduced to buying store bread (the horror!).
Where [...]
Beyond the Pale
I’ve been out of step with modern fish eating for some time - whenever I order tuna or salmon, I hasten to add that I want it actually cooked all the way through. I had lunch with a friend recently who gave me hard time for wanting to kill my tuna again.
The Bride recently complained [...]
High altitude jam
We have a bumper crop of black currants. Anybody got good advice on what aspect of jam making (with commercial liquid pectin) needs to be modified for altitude? We’re at 1517 meters/4979 feet.
Tea
Last night’s bedtime reading was the Upton Tea catalog. Tea descriptions are so intriguing: tippy. golden, flowery … and what’s “Orange” about pekoe?
Some more tea reading:
Flowery, rustic, tippy, smokey
Tea Education
drinks - teatime
Tea Glorious Tea
What’s in that drink?
Should have known better.
My normal Starbucks/Peaberry/Vic’s drink is a 12 ounce non-fat latte, pretty inocuous.
Yesterday I tried Starbucks’ new chocolate drink, the Chantico (why do they give things these weird names?). Tiny cup. Drink is apparently a melted bar of chocolate. I felt faintly ill after finishing it.
Today I went hunting for info. Are you [...]
Cooking for Engineers
Mrs. OotFP, you’re going to love this! What a wonderfully elegant way to present a recipe.
Via Confessions of a Girl Geek, while trying to figure out why Spam Karma is turning off email notification of real comments.
Saint Barbara’s Day
Well, I didn’t bake Kletzenbrot, but I did bake Silesian pepper cookies:
Combine over medium heat, and stir until the butter melts:
1 1/2 cups honey
1 cup sugar
2 tbsp butter
Let cool.
In a large bowl, combine:
4 cups flour
1 tbsp baking powder
1 2/3 cups almonds, chopped small (I used hazelnuts, because I didn’t have any almonds)
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp [...]
Hummus recipe?
I’m jonesing for hummus. Anybody got a good recipe to share?
The truth dawns
We’ve been married twenty years, and I think I may finally be convinced that he’s not kidding when he says he doesn’t like garlic.
Maybe I should throw the garlic press away, as penance. (It’s such a nice one, though - I’m not sure I’d ever find another one like it, when I’m a widow.)
Farmers’ Market
Today at the Farmers’ Market I bought 5 pints of raspberries (three are already frozen, one is eaten, one for tomorrow), two loaves of bread including one really excellent German rye (I wish I had noticed the name of the bakery or whatever it was), a stalk of brussels sprouts and five heads of garlic. [...]
Dinner Tonight
Easy Grilled Chicken Sandwich
Ingredients:
One 8 or 9 inch focaccia (supermarket)
One rotisserie chicken (supermarket)
One large onion, sliced and sautéed in a little olive oil
Two tomatoes, sliced
One cup grated provolone cheese
Slice the focaccia horizontally like a cake. Pull all the meat off the chicken and chop coarsely. On the bottom layer of the focaccia, layer the [...]
Something easy to do with raspberries
This recipe is based on one from a long lost food processor cookbook.
Yummy Frozen Raspberry stuff
4 cups raspberries
1 pint heavy cream
sugar to taste (I usually start with half a cup - remember that frozen things need to be sweeter)
Whir all ingredients in a food processor. Freeze until just before serving. Run it around the food [...]
My High Carb Lunch
A quart of cut up fruit and a hard roll.
I’m happy.
Unjust Desserts
I keep forgetting to post this proof that I can be trained (by Patricia, based on her comments on the pie debacle).
We had friends over for dinner, and I made trifle for dessert, as follows:
Buy 1 angel food cake, two bags of frozen fruit, 4 vanilla pudding snack cups, and one can of Reddi-Whip (YES! [...]
Stupid and Stubborn
So I’m having the World’s Fastest MS Relapse, and this weekend my choir is going on a retreat, including a pot luck dinner. I signed up to bring dessert. I’m the alto section leader, so when one of the other altos couldn’t make it, I signed up to bring her dessert, too.
Dessert for twenty. I [...]
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