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Bit of a banner day, I made two new saved recipes!

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 08:32:56 GMT

This one was technically only saved since a few weeks ago, I was planning to make it for Christmas, but it's close enough.

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Cheese tea: cookbook_challenge

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 00:14:04 GMT

So today I made the recipe that's been sitting in my open tabs for well over a month now: Cheese tea. They say "cheese tea", it's more like a whipped cheesecake filling that you put on top of your tea.

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I wish I'd known how to cook this sooner!

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:18:40 GMT

Today I made poached eggs in tomato sauce, which upon Googling seems to be a universal dish, with lots of cultures having their own variations on it.

I made mine in marinara sauce, and it was a. yummy b. filling c. nutritious and d. cheap. The garlic bread cost as much per person as the meal!

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I can think of just a zillion and a half ways to do this. The only thing I did wrong is I overcooked the eggs. I've never successfully poached eggs before (I used to never really understand how to do it at all!) and was so buoyed with my success that it didn't occur to me to keep a closer eye on them. Also, they seemed to have clear whites for the longest time, so I didn't realize how fast the yolks would harden once the whites did!

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This article is not about freegans

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:28:38 GMT

That’s Not Trash, That’s Dinner

It's linked to some recipes:

Sweet Corn and Black Raspberry Ice Cream
Broccoli Stalks with Lemon
White Gazpacho with Watermelon Rind

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Last week I made waaaaay too many black beans for a recipe.

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 04:04:13 GMT

But I remembered I'd read about making brownies with black beans, so I put a cup and a half aside. And with one thing and another, those brownies didn't get made. (One thing was that all the recipes online called for canned beans and box mix. No thank you!)

Today I committed myself to making those brownies... but the beans had gone bad. I could easily have made NORMAL brownies, but once I decide to do a thing I like to follow through as I intended. So I just boiled some more beans.

You know, when you make black beans the water ends up, well, black? They're the beans from the black lagoon!!!!

Anyway, several hours later I finally made this recipe, taking the advice from the comments and adding half a cup of flour. I also stuck some peanut butter on top, and didn't add the mint extract. (Sorry, Lizziey! But then, we're not sharing with you anyway :P)

Now, the idiotic comments that "Oh, I'm so okay with my kids gorging on THESE brownies because they get protein and fiber!" are, as I said, completely absurd. A quick check on the data shows that you're hardly getting any of that in a reasonable serving. And if it's NOT a reasonable serving it's still too many brownies for every day.

So I'm not going to cook these just to make dessert a little healthier. It's dessert. It's not really supposed to be healthy... and if I want a healthy dessert, I'll just give the nieces a mango or some bananas or something.

But I would absolutely cook them again for the texture. Very firm, and the brownies held their shape even though I cut them, as is traditional, when they were barely out of the oven. I know I shouldn't, but I do anyway.

They tasted pretty much like normal as well, and of course you don't have to use any flour at all. So all in all, I have to say this experiment was a wild success.

And the nieces weren't able to guess the secret ingredient at all! I had to tell them!

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We made one of our favorite dinners today, and since I'm still backlogged I thought I'd post it:

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 04:19:43 GMT

( Thyme-Lime Chicken )

( Spinach rice )

( Our usual green beans )

We also had mashed sweet potato, which shouldn't require a recipe, and this great fruit salad:

( This great fruit salad )

I don't always make the sweet potatoes. Sometimes I make plantains instead. (Slice plantains, fry in a skillet, serve with salt and a lemon or a lime.) And instead of fruit salad, I often have pineapple or mango for dessert. Depends on whether I can get cherries and whether I want dessert. Mango = yucko! But everybody loves this meal, and it's worth remembering to start it early so the chicken can marinate. That's why I try to make dessert with it as well.

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And the last of them!

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:44:57 GMT

Monitoring America - please read.

Medical Schools in Region Fight Caribbean Flow

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Visitors See North Korea Still Stunted by Its Isolation
See this as well

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African Huts Far From the Grid Glow With Renewable Power

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Riker's Reading Program Lets Fathers Parent

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And here's one on eating your Christmas tree! I gotta say, the people in the comments clearly didn't read the same books growing up that I did, because none of them seems to have ever heard that one can do this.

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Now, here's a recipe for Korean acorn jelly

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:48:32 GMT

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/dining/13acornrex.html

This has inspired me, and I collected many different acorns over the past week to try cooking this week! (Though I will probably just make bread.)

Everything I found online said that there are two main types of oak, but I found five or six different types of acorn... and I wasn't even trying that hard.

http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/clay79.html
http://www.prodigalgardens.info/acorn%20recipes.htm

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Articles!

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 01:08:47 GMT

Pentagon trying to change culture to allow gays

A woman went from juror to key witness in a trial in Ohio. Cool!

Finding your inner bigot - how your unconscious mind shapes you

A set of acorn recipes - and yes, I know about the soaking!

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Articles!

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:27:28 GMT

In Fierce Opposition to a Muslim Center, Echoes of an Old Fight

The comments are absolutely worthless, but get a load of this gem:

"How true. We all remember Catholic suicide bombers and how they wanted to replace the US constitution by biblical law (is there such a thing?) and how they chanted "My Catholic God is Great" after cutting the heads of innocent Protestants"

1. No, honey, that's the largely Protestant fundies you're talking about.
2. I guess nobody remembers the Spanish Inquisition anymore?

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Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children
A woman misquoted in the article has her comment here.

My view is that if picture books aren't selling, it's because they only come in hardcover! I don't want to spend $16 on a new picture book when I can spend half that price on a longer chapter book! Sure, I can buy used, but that doesn't help the new books get printed, does it?

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Some states may be drugging incarcerated kids to control their behavior. Well, no shit.

Here's a quote from a brilliant guy who thinks the government is going to force people to eat their veggies. LOL!

Children need more play

Not enough PWDs on TV, again I say "well, no shit"

Let's not forget the extrasolar earthlike planet

An article on renegade female Catholic priests.

Migrant ‘Villages’ Within Beijing Ignite Debate

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An article on Romansh

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One on dishes LIKE ratatouille

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We may have found the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder!

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How can you cook summer squash?

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:15:55 GMT

I actually found a great recipe (as always, I increased the chili powder, and I also added smoked paprika. Mmm. No olives, though) last week that I intend to make again before the end of summer, and freeze it for winter, but it calls for mozzarella and buffalo milk mozzarella is SO expensive (delicious, though). Well, actually, I'd probably make the recipe and freeze it WITHOUT the cheese and then add the cheese after. I'm want to start freezing meals to save on cooking, anyway, now that I have space in the freezer. But the point is I can't make it until I have some money for the raw ingredients. Excepting the zucchini.

So, how ELSE can you make zucchini? I might try a meat loaf today, which I've a. never made and b. to my knowledge never eaten but which c. seems like no more than meatballs or hamburger (do you know, Evangeline won't eat burgers if she has a choice? Even if she doesn't, she doesn't like them!) in loaf form, and all because it looks like a good way to get rid of some of the squash. (I might actually resort to hiding it. Ana won't eat it, nor Evangeline.) And over the weekend I might make zucchini waffles with cheddar, but that's out as a family dinner for the obvious reason.

Gimme recipes!

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I made this dish tonight.

Sat, 29 May 2010 01:38:20 GMT

How is it that a dish *I* am not totally impressed by can be the one my nieces love?

Well, Ana thinks this one rocks and devoured it, and I didn't dislike it or anything, it just wasn't my favorite chickpea recipe ever, so I'll probably make it again one day. Maybe I'll see if I can find another recipe, though....

Edit: Apparently, some anti-virus programs don't like that site and think it's trojan-riffic. Mine didn't care, but click at your own risk.

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