For the Northwestern tailgate earlier this month, I attempted to contribute to the festivities and failed miserably. The cornbread tasted great, there just wasn’t enough of it.
I placed my puny loaf pan next to the enormous aluminum banquet trays, and I have a feeling it was greeted with deep suspicion. “What the hell is this [...]
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Jalapeno green chile corn muffins
Squash Soup
If one is good, three is great.
Case in point: Butternut, acorn and zucchini squash soup. Next time you consider whipping up a batch of that old fall go-to, butternut squash soup, consider this delightful remix.
Roasted three-squash soup
You’ll need:
1 acorn squash
1 large butternut squash
1 zucchini
1/2 of yellow or white onion
4 cloves garlic, roasted
1/2 teaspoon curry
1/2 teaspoon [...]
The iceberg sunk this Titanic
“Kate and Leo Tomatilllo (salsa)”
Whaaaaa???
I know. I said the same thing when Dave suggested the name for my … errr … “his” tomatillo salsa for the Cars.com salsa competition.
We were trying to think of something that rhymes with tomatillo (there isn’t much), when Dave blurted out “Kate and Leo” … as in Kate Winslett and [...]
My plan was foiled …
A few weeks ago I went into a cleaning frenzy, and before I knew it, I had doused my entire oven in CLR. CLR is not exactly non-toxic, as you may know.
I realized what I’d done almost immediately and began furiously wiping down the oven with cold water. An hour of scrubbing, several frantic Google [...]
Cookies for Cars.comers
Dear Cars.comers,
I wasn’t holding out on you by not posting this recipe. It was just a simple case of procrastination. I swear. I know you really like the oatmeal chocolate-chip cookies I send to work with Dave every so often, so now you can make them for yourselves. But don’t worry, I’ll still send some [...]
Redemption and bear-shaped tostadas
Last week, I made some delicious game-day food for the return of Sunday Football at Jim’s place.
Unfortunately, as a result of Cutler’s awful debut performance, I was too dejected to actually post about it.
Since I went to great lengths to make bear-shaped food, and the Bears redeemed themselves tonight in an exhilarating win, I think I’ll [...]
Mango Mojitos
I am clinging on to summer for dear life. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love the fall, I just hate that season whose name we won’t speak that follows it.
I figure if I keep posting summer recipes I can hang on a little longer.
And we can thank our friend Mike’s mom, Mrs. Truckenmiller, for [...]
Last day of bread week: French baguette
Well my friends, today is officially the last day of bread week, and as I type, I still have dough underneath my fingernails and a fine dusting of flour covering every square inch of my kitchen.
I’m not going to lie: This was a lot harder and more time consuming then I thought it would be. My [...]
Bread week, day 6: Pita
It seemed so easy. All was going according to plan. Day 6 of bread week was sure to be a piece of cake … er … bread.
Until my pitas failed to puff.
They were as deflated as my ego after a thus-far-successful bread week was foiled.
I’ll give you all the recipe, because I think the inability [...]
Bread week, day 5: No need to knead
I stumbled upon a recipe for no-knead bread on The Vegetarian Foodie blog. Not that I was excited to find a no-knead recipe. What are you saying? I love kneading. Are you accusing me of getting burnt out on all this bread baking, proofing and kneading? Nonsense. I was just … ummm … curious.
Riiiiight.
Anyway, I was slightly [...]
