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...