A few weeks ago, we picked up some amaranth at the farmers’ market. After looking up some recipes, I finally decided on an amaranth and lentil curry over rice. On the whole, I thought it came out pretty well. I used a mixture of cooked lentils, blanched amaranth (which leeches out a lot of pink … Continue reading K: Amaranth and Lentil Curry
“On the ninth day of Christmas my true love gave to me nine ladies dancing.” This is, I suppose, a morbidly appropriate cookie for the nine ladies. =] I normally only have lady fingers as a part of other desserts, so it was interesting to actually make them from scratch. And… they were weird. It … Continue reading K: 12 Days of Cookies – Lady Fingers
I don’t know exactly why, but for some reason I’m in love with all forms of dough. Bread dough, cookie dough, pie crust dough, pastry dough, cooked dough, uncooked dough, whatever. You name it, I’ll eat it. It took me quite a while to find a recipe for pizza crust dough that I really like, … Continue reading D: Pizza Dough
This is an interesting article discussing taste aversion — that is, what happens to your brain when you get sick from eating food. It’s interesting that our brains are good (relatively speaking) at figure out that we’ve been poisoned, but really bad at figuring out what poisoned us. I have a minor taste aversion to … Continue reading D: Taste Aversion
We only have two more weeks in the season for the CSA, so they’re really packing the shares to ensure that we get lots and lots of veggies. New this week – acorn squash! (The real acorn squash. =] ) Cucumber: I guess we’re nearing the end of the cucumber season. I still have all … Continue reading K: CSA September 14
In a change of pace for our household, I got to work on the DC challenge this month! (D was feeling the pressure of Pillsbury.) Renata of Testado, Provado & Aprovado! was our Daring Cooks’ April 2011 hostess. Renata challenged us to think “outside the plate” and create our own edible containers! Prizes are being … Continue reading K: Edible Containers
Thursday night, I made the cake. I’m actually really disappointed with how it came out – I think I was anticipating great things, and then I had a number of problems with the cake and frosting that I didn’t anticipate. It tasted fine, it just looked like a second grade baking project. Ah well, such … Continue reading K: Part 2 – Cake
Since this is a food blog, and presumably you are reading because you want to know about food, and because Thanksgiving is traditionally a time when you eat food, I thought I’d do a recap of what we had: Startin on the left, in counter-clockwise order: shrimp and scallop ceviche, papas rellenas, fried plantains (chopped … Continue reading D: Thanksgiving Recap
And all through the house No other creature was stirring Not even the spouse The ingredients were stored In the fridge with great care With hope they’d be used For tomorrow’s affair The menu was planned Not a detail ignored There were drinks in the fridge Awaiting to be poured And as the sleepy awoke … Continue reading K: ‘Twas the day before Christmas
Our Daring Cooks’ December 2011 hostess is Sara from Belly Rumbles! Sara chose awesome Char Sui Bao as our challenge, where we made the buns, Char Sui, and filling from scratch – delicious! I had never heard of char sui before, but apparently it’s a type of Chinese pork barbeque. The “bao” bit means that … Continue reading D: Char Sui Bao