Sunday was a crazy day in the kitchen. I am tempted to say I would have been better off avoiding the kitchen all together, but I learned (and re-learned) a few things. I was very excited to attempt to make biscuits with rendered lard. I found a couple recipes online. I find it annoying that [...]
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Biscuit Bloopers
Posted in Back to Basics, Bread, Breakfast, Fat, Flops on February 11, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Casualty of the Kitchen
Posted in Flops on February 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Smoke. Lots of smoke. More to come…
Rendering Lard
Posted in Beer and Wine, Blogs, Co-op, Experimenting, Fat, Flops, Meat on December 4, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Lard. Lard. Lard. Lard. Lard. Maybe if I say it enough it won’t sound so lardy? I read Real Food by Nina Planck several months (maybe even a year) ago. It’s like In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, but more simplistic. Both have their merits, but I took away more from Real Food probably [...]
Zen Cooking
Posted in Flops, Local, Preservation on October 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
When I pulled out the spent tomato and ground cherry plants, I found a blanket of ground cherries that were still good—thanks to their protective husks. I decided to make some ground cherry jam. Because of my recent baking blunders, I made a point to work slowly and deliberately. My mind was craving quiet. Peeling [...]
Not a Good Night
Posted in Flops, Recipe, Sweets on October 10, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Not a good night in the kitchen. This is what happens when you add twice as much butter than the recipe calls for (unintentional, of course): In my head 1 stick of butter was 1/4 cup. So, since the recipe called for 1/2 cup of butter, I added two sticks. When I was puzzled by [...]
Thinking Outside the Garden
Posted in Bread, Experimenting, Flops, Local on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of posts back I talked about edible “weeds” and plants in the wild that you can eat. I came across one of these plants—cleavers— in my yard and thought I’d share a picture. Not sure if this will be enough for you to identify it. Consider looking up more photos. It’s bright green [...]
Fall Harvest Lasagna
Posted in Flops, Recipe, Vegetarian Friendly on January 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
.Sweet Potato, Caramelized Onion, and Butternut Squash Lasagna. From one of my favorites: the Gardeners’ Community Cookbook I made this just before Christmas as a cozy holiday meal for Matt and me before we headed out of town. And we took the leftovers with us to share with my family in Texas. :: 1 lb. [...]
Saucy Lady
Posted in Beer and Wine, Flops, Meat, Pizza, Tomatoes on December 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a little late in posting, but last Wednesday was pizza night. It came together nicely; we used ground sausage left over from making stuffed acorn squash, caramelized onion, goat cheese crumbles, and a little mozzarella, all on top of an amended version of my canned tomato sauce and the trusty whole-wheat dough from Earth [...]
Savory Custard
Posted in Flops, Vegetarian Friendly on September 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not really sure what the difference is between this custard I made last night from Deborah Madison’s Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, and a quiche. Perhaps, technically speaking, a quiche has a crust and a custard doesn’t? Anyone? It was made with eggs, milk, a shredded or chopped vegetable (I used zucchini), shredded cheese of [...]
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