I am at Karen and Spanky’s house. There are Street Fighter 4 sounds and egg beater sounds in the background. We have had a Tea Party, limited in size but not limited in scope. We don’t have pictures of our full spread, because food pretty much disappeared when it hit the table. Also, the table [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2009’
Scones!
So today I made two types of scones for tea at Karen’s house! I made some cranberry scones that I got from this recipe on Smitten Kitchen (my favorite food blog!). I also altered that recipe to make a batch of savory bacon and cheddar scones, which turned out quite well. The cranberry ones were [...]
Rosemary bread: the sequel
After typing up my old recipe for rosemary bread, I felt like I had to bake something, so I tried the aforementioned un-kneaded rosemary peasant bread. It came out surprisingly light and even of crumb despite the lack of kneading, and lumpy-looking but in that ‘rustic’ kind of way. I got real sea salt and [...]
Damned Easy Shepherd’s Pie
I do not make gourmet food. I make gourmand food. Give me an army, and I will feed it and have leftovers for lunch the next day. This is a wonderful dish, because there is a ton of it, it tastes good, it’s easy to make, and you get to mash potatoes. Because of this, [...]
My second brush with steaks!
I was looking at the blog today and realized that no one had posted! Fearful of breaking our daily run of deliciousness, I decided I wanted to cook. (Also, my roommate’s boyfriend accidentally knocked her dinner over before her 3-hour orchestra dress rehearsal, so to help him get out of hot water, I figured it’d [...]
Cajun-Style Sauteed Shrimp
Chris’s cooking style, as you may or may not know, is somewhat instinctive. If he does follow a recipe, he approximates and often ignores the given directions. If you are a person who loves exact numbers in cooking, you may not like this recipe’s lack of precision. Chris would like to let you know that [...]
Biiru (desu)
So I’m not much of a beer person, but there are a lot of recipes I like making with beer. I got some Murphy’s Irish Stout, which was really interesting. It’s a very, very bitter dark beer, but all the reviews were right: for the first sip, I would have sworn I was drinking iced [...]
Bonus level: Another Steak Sauce
Are you scared of Spanky’s obsessions with fire and cream? Here is another deglaze-based sauce that tastes delicious and is awesome. Despite the fact that I have ruined a good five steaks in my time, this sauce always comes out wonderfully on top of my ruined steaks. Instead of brandy, deglaze your pan with chicken [...]
rosemary bread: an ongoing story
I am obsessed with bread. Slowly yet steadily, and with many lumpy first attempts, baking will yeild its secrets to me, and I will become the greatest baker in Japan create the bread of nationalism yes. The rosemary bread recipe I’ve used in the past is based off of this, but someday soon I hope [...]
Pancake and Soups!
Scallion Pancakes This recipe is one of the things my father got out of living for several years in a tiny backwoods village in Shandong Province during the Cultural Revolution. Scallion cakes are simple in recipe, but hard to describe. The key thing is the dough, which is simply flour and water in roughly a [...]