Spaghetti noodles with sesame oil, peanut oil, sesame seeds, peanut butter, soy sauce, ginger… So called not because they crack (the verb) but because they are like crack (the noun).
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Cheese & wine chicken
Cheese. Wine. Chicken. What more could you need? If the answer is “corn bread stuffing,” this recipe still has you covered.
recent foods I have baked
First I baked rosemary bread yet again, for a dinner party, following this recipe for an unkneaded peasant bread. This time it came out much much lighter, fluffier, and more delicious. Basically I followed the directions more carefully and this worked (who knew!) although I also stuck my roommate’s pizza stone in the oven while [...]
almond lemon biscotti
I’ve been craving cookies, but I don’t actually like them so much (too sweet); I just want something to go with coffee, and biscotti are generally not super rich, due to having no shortening usually. Melody recommended this recipe from joy of baking. I like my biscotti as plain as possible, so almond it was, [...]
Thai Ice Tea Cupcakes!
Spring break means access to so many kitchens and a car to buy ingredients! I wanted to make lunch for myself today, but was pretty hungry and really unwilling to go out. Also, my family consumes far less garlic and spinach than I’d like so there was none in our fridge. Thus, I had an [...]
Salads with sauted things are the best salads.
The caponata from here (a friend recently got Giada de Laurentiis’s cookbook and it was a worthwhile investment in terms of deliciousness) – ingredients I didn’t have on hand (capers, celery) + a bed of arugula with a little olive oil and some crumbled feta = lunch.
The next day I made the leftover caponata into [...]
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 [...]
Cupcakes, Version Ellen
I take many pictures of cupcakes.