Archive for the 'Recipes' Category

More songs about buildings and food

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Or food, anyway. Via Serious Eats comes One Ring Zero’s Recipe Project, where the band asks their favorite chefs for recipes and musical styles, then sings the recipe verbatim. There’s Andrea Reusing’s Pickled Pumpkin, in an indie-folk style, Michael Symon’s Octopus Salad with Black-Eyed Peas in hilarious heavy metal, Chris Cosentino’s Brains and Eggs, in […]

Kale Chips and Plum Cake

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

And strawberry ice cream. That’s what I’m currently making to take to the Veggielution cookout this evening. But what is in the box this week, you ask? Well, let’s see. Clockwise from lower left: Eggs, cilantro, dill, kale, romaine, nappa cabbage, carrots, green beans, potatoes, zucchini (round and grey), cucumber, garlic. Red oak leaf lettuce […]

Baking Day

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

I am the proud owner of a Zojirushi Mini bread machine. When I’m not impulsively buying bread at farmers markets, I try to bake my own. Although I read a lot of commentary from serious bakers that bread machines are great for kneading and rising, but that they always take the dough out and shape […]

CSA Box

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Thursday already? Let’s see what I got this week. Only one basket of strawberries. These will go quickly; about 1/3 of them got et up for dinner. Half dozen eggs, in the new TLC Ranch packaging! Like a real egg carton, and everything! Evidently, they don’t have too many of these, though. In this week’s […]

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