Category: recipes
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Vanilla Ice Cream with a Food Processor
A few weeks ago we harvested a bunch of lemons from our tree, and I had good success making lemon sorbet using the food processor with this recipe. (Highly recommended!) But of course this got me thinking … could I use the same sort of technique to make ice cream? (There was no question of what…
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Strawberry Upside-Down Valentine’s Day Cake
Today is Valentine’s Day! And I wanted to try making something new. Something suitable for Valentine’s Day. But I didn’t know what it would be… At the Farmers’ Market, I bought a basket of strawberries. (The great thing about living in coastal California, is that we have Farmers Markets – with fresh strawberries – all…
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Buttermilk Pancakes
I’ve been making pancakes for years. I regularly made them in Tanzania (with whatever ingredients I could get my hands on), and have tried various recipes over the years. For many years now I’ve been using the Joy of Cooking for a standard buttermilk pancake recipe. But they weren’t always as fluffy as I wanted…
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Peanutty Peanut Butter Cookies with Peanuts
Who doesn’t love peanut butter cookies? Other than those who are allergic, of course… In the past year, I expanded my cookie repertoire to peanut butter cookies. Sam loves them, Becky loves them, and my sister Amanda loves them. In honor of Auntie Amanda’s upcoming visit, I’m finally blogging the recipe that I use. Of…
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Curried Butternut Squash Soup with Cilantro Yogurt
A couple of years ago we were looking for a good butternut squash soup recipe to take advantage of the beautiful squash we find at the farmers’ markets around fall and winter. Becky found an old Cook’s Illustrated recipe that somebody else had reposted online. It purported to extract the most flavor out the squash…
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Roast Turkey
Okay. So I haven’t posted to this blog since January. And Thanksgiving was last Thursday. But that doesn’t mean I can’t post my roast turkey recipe now! And if I do it now, it’ll be written down before I forget it again next year. There are many schools of thought on cooking a turkey. But…
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Pumpkin Bread
Some time ago, I posted a recipe for courgette (zucchini) bread, inspired by a particularly successful loaf of pumpkin bread that Mike V. and I baked in Tanzania. And I’m sure everybody has been wondering…but what about that pumpkin bread? Well, at long last, here is a fantastic pumpkin bread recipe, adapted from an article…
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Want To Make Bread? There’s No Knead!
In November of 2006, Mark Bittman introduced the world to Jim Lahey’s No-Knead Bread. This recipe totally rocked my world, and demoted the bread machine to a sad, unused corner of the kitchen. And it wasn’t just me…everybody I knew who baked was talking about it. Four years later, it came up at lunch, which…
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Black Bean Veggie Burgers
Back in Ann Arbor, Becky and I would grill all through the summer grilling season. And one of our favorite things to grill on short notice were the Morningstar Farms Spicy Black Bean Veggie Burgers. These are exceptional veggie burgers because they don’t try to taste like fake burgers. (Becky doesn’t eat meat, and I…
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Courgette (Zucchini) Bread
Back when I was in the Peace Corps (I know, I know) I took spring break 1998 to visit Mike V. on Mafia Island, a small island off the coast of mainland Tanganyika. Mafia is exactly what you would expect from a desert island in the Indian Ocean, complete with a fantastic coral reef. Luckily,…