February 2012
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brunch #35: parfaits n waffles
the parfaits, made with greek yogurt, strawberries, bananas, honey, and granola that B made. We found this delicious cute “Greek Gods” greek yogurt (different flavors for different gods? cute) for pretty cheap! Gonna buy that again.
The granola is B’s special invention, as he is good at making up granola recipes. It’s deadly delicious.
granola
we do sometimes...
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Valentine's chocolate peanut butter cake
This is a chocolate cake with peanut butter cream cheese frosting that N made B for Valentine’s day.
The recipe came from N’s roommate, and made an absolutely amazing cake. This recipe is highly recommended; moist, a little crumbly, and the directions were really helpful about how to frost the cake. It also called for a chocolate-peanut butter ganache that you poured ON TOP OF the...
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brunch #34: barbecue biscuit sunday
brunch #34! slow cooker balsamic honey coffee barbecue pulled pork, homemade biscuits, apple cider vinegar cole slaw, and cumin yogurt sauce. with special guest Angie! and her dog Bella!
we also had tea and currant jam for the extra biscuits.
Biscuit recipe is…the same one that is all over the internet. If you google ‘biscuit recipe’ it’s the first dozen searches...
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insomniac baking: the 4am honey wheat loaf
for a recipe N made up, at 3:30am, when unable to sleep, without even putting in contacts, this bread turned out really awesomely and both loaves are already gone. Made monday night, baked tuesday evening.
Insomniac Honey Wheat Bread
4 cups wheat flour
2 cups white flour
1/3 cup honey
2 2/3 cup water
1 packet yeast
1 tsp salt
Combine flours and salt in a large mixing bowl. In...
January 2012
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brunch #33: this-could-totally-be-on-a-pizza pasta...
brunch #33: for lack of pizza dough, this mixture of roasted green tomatoes, spinach cooked in vermouth, mozzarella cheese, garlic, and bacon went on top of some pasta to make a delicious fake-pizza pasta brunch #33.
This-Could-Totally-Be-On-A-Pizza Pasta
3 slices bacon, diced
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 bunch spinach, about 2 cups, loosely chopped
a splash of vermouth
8 oz roasted green...
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Peach, Plum, Pear Pie
first, the song:
Joanna Newsom - Peach, Plum, Pear
then, the pie:
Peach, Plum, Pear Pie
a special recipe for people who love fruit, pies, and Joanna Newsom, by N. for anyone feeling blue and unwell.
(note: this is the first time N has ever used refrigerated, buy-at-the-grocery-store pie dough, and not made her own. IT IS SO MUCH FASTER. You don’t have to dread making pie dough...
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brunch #32: pad thai
N had never had pad thai so B cooked it for her. awwww. This necessitated a trip to Hong Kong Market where we bought things like Mochi Red Bean ice cream and purple yams and coconut vinegar, as well as tofu/bean sprouts/rice noodles, ie the things you need to make pad thai.
funny fact: when you say “pad thai” on the phone to your parents they may think you’re saying...
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brunch #31: picnic in the park
brunch #31: medium-boiled eggs and bacon and homemade biscuits combine with mustard for sandwiches! green beans with spices dipped in mustard! apricot jam for the dozen biscuits I made this morning while B cooked! all for a picnic in Audubon Park on the stage.
on the stage in Audubon Park. We wrapped the eggs in two layers of towel, tied with twine, to keep them from cracking in B’s...
December 2011
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brunch #13: curry with cilantro chutney
The best solution when you have a fridge full of veggies, no meat, and just some flour is to make a curry. Add some cilantro chutney (this one would probably work), make yourself some naan, add blueberries and tamarind juice—what else? And you’ve got yourself a Sunday brunch.
Includes carrots, sweet potatoes, regular potatoes….some cauliflower, maybe? Whatever veggies you...
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Purple Sweet Potato Pies
Purple is N’s favorite color and sweet potatoes are among her favorite foods. So of course when she saw purple sweet potatoes at Hong Kong Market she couldn’t resist, despite not knowing what to do with them.
Luckily foodgawker (an amazing site to get on at work when you’re hungry…..or not) provided the answer in the form of this recipe from Jun Belen.
These are the...
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Independence Day Patriotic Cooking
what’s more american than hamburgers, baked beans, cole slaw, thin crispy fries, and a Bud Light?
NOTHING.
Recipes for the cole slaw and bar fries both come from Cook’s Illustrated, B’s favorite magazine.
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N's first chocolate layer cake
baking layer cake is hard, guys. it just takes A LOT. A lot of what, you ask? A lot of everything. Ingredients. Time. Effort. Pans. Washing. EATING. It takes a lot of eating too.
N wanted to make this herself, but halfway through the taking-out-of-the-oven process got distracted with a friend who came over with a trunkful of free clothes she found some girl giving away on Craigslist, so of...
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brunch #12: loco moco
In case you’ve never heard of loco moco (N never had, it is one of B’s favorites), here is the wikipedia. It’s a Hawaiian dish of white rice topped with ground beef, fried egg, gravy, and (if you’re fancy like B) green onions.
And it is, of course, amazing. Rice + egg + gravy + onions? There’s not really a complicated recipe to follow—once you’ve read...
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Chocoate-Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes
These cupcakes are probably the one thing N is most proud of making all summer. They were that amazing.
The cupcakes themselves came from this recipe from allrecipes.com, while the frosting (which we made by hand! man creaming butter and sugar is not at all the same thing as melting butter then adding sugar! Who knew. It was a learning experience for N anyway) was from this recipe for cookie...
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brunch #9: french toast with jam, lime curd, cream...
brunch #9! From the first sunday of May. This one was normal french toast with an assortment of toppings (from B’s love of condiments): strawberry jam, blackberry jam, lime curd, cream cheese, and honey. We also used peanut butter, if I remember correctly. The real amazement comes when you use at least two of these condiments at once on one piece of toast.
making mimosas (duh, a brunch...
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peanut butter chocolate chip muffins
N impulse baked some peanut-butter chocolate chip muffins. Hey, when you have peanut butter and chocolate chips (as well as flour/sugar/baking powder/muffin tins), it’s hard not to.
B also made….looks like scrambled eggs with a lot of veggies? We are not exactly sure right now but it looks really delicious.
N used this recipe, and added chocolate chips. The dozen did not last...
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Berger Cookies
everything about these cookies was pretty amazing.
half chocolate, half cookie. The chocolate, melty though it looks, hardens to almost fudge, while the cookie part still stays soft and crumbly.
B dipping the cookies into chocolate
the process
and the finished product, after the chocolate hardened overnight:
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Midnight Moroccan Chicken
midnight snack B made for N because she was hungry and wanted (as she always wants) couscous. With lots of cilantro on top and a nice beer.
Midnight Moroccan Chicken, the recipe! there were no olives in this one.
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brunch #4: chorizo and corn muffins
Brunch #4 on the picnic tables in B’s backyard. Homemade corn muffin/fritter delicious things and chorizo by B; orange juice + pineapple soda and orange slices. All B’s initiative, as after this N ran off to go tubing with friends. Still very tasty and adorable.
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New Orleans Summer Grocery-Store Dates
B loves cooking Mexican and also Asian food. So we spent a lot of time at:
Ideal Mart, on Broad Street (Midcity). Look at that octopus THEY SELL OCTOPUS HERE. This is where we got a lot of chorizo, tamarind juice, plantains, tortillas, horchata….we also drank a lot of horchata this summer.
We also spent a lot of time at Hong Kong Market, in the Westbank. Fun fact: if you bike, you get...
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brunch by the pool + N's basic bread recipe
A longstanding tradition of ours is brunch. (Dating back to our very first dates. Dawww.) Every weekend we’re together we cook Sunday brunch, even if it has to be squeezed before/after other obligations.
The very first brunch ever (in March, after N/B’s collective birthday, on Lundi Gras morning) was German pancakes with honey and lime and iced tea (sugary sweet, of course)....
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cranberry buckwheat meatloaf
last-minute “someone mentioned meatloaf? we can make meatloaf!” dinner. With B’s leftover amazing cranberry barbecue sauce (recipe from Whole Foods), and some leftover vegetable kebabs from the Garden Juggling thing. They had mirliton, green bell, creole tomatoes, little purple potatoes, sweet potatoes, and apples, all sprinkled with a bit of oil, s+p, and marjoram.
The...