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cooking with friends

Kate and I are making english muffins tomorrow afternoon and I can’t explain how excited I am about this. English muffins are one of the best bread products out there. And homemade anything is almost universally at least 10 times better than store-bought. So, with any luck we’ll have english muffins so delicious that they give you good hair days, excellent parking mojo, and cure hangnails. Or something like that.

This is the email I sent to coordinate ingredient procurement:

I have the flour, yeast, sugar, and salt for the recipe if you need me to bring over any/all let me know. I don’t have shortening or milk, but can certainly find some specialty, organic, fare-trade grocery store that may have these rare commodities.

(I obviously think I’m pretty clever.)

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I just made this creamy avocado, arugula, broccoli soup from Honest Fare, and damn girl, that’s one fine soup. Washed it down with some New Belgium Abbey. Doesn’t get much better.

I just made this creamy avocado, arugula, broccoli soup from Honest Fare, and damn girl, that’s one fine soup. Washed it down with some New Belgium Abbey.
Doesn’t get much better.

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I made bread! It is beautiful and delicious and so easy. All you need is 3 cups flour, 1/4 teaspoon yeast, 1 and 1/4 teaspoons salt, and 1 and 1/2 cups water. Combine ingredients in bowl, cover, let sit for 18 hours. After 18 hours, chop up 3 springs of rosemary and knead into bread. Let sit for two more hours. Heat oven to 450, sprinkle flour or cornmeal on a cookie sheet, plop the dough on there and bake for about 25 minutes. Boom! You have bread. first loaf of bread (by sister reba)

I made bread!
It is beautiful and delicious and so easy.

All you need is 3 cups flour, 1/4 teaspoon yeast, 1 and 1/4 teaspoons salt, and 1 and 1/2 cups water. Combine ingredients in bowl, cover, let sit for 18 hours. After 18 hours, chop up 3 springs of rosemary and knead into bread. Let sit for two more hours. Heat oven to 450, sprinkle flour or cornmeal on a cookie sheet, plop the dough on there and bake for about 25 minutes.

Boom! You have bread.

first loaf of bread (by sister reba)

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Okay folks. I’m doing it. I’m baking bread for the first time this weekend.Kindly leave your best recipes in the comments. bread brooch

Okay folks. I’m doing it. I’m baking bread for the first time this weekend.
Kindly leave your best recipes in the comments.

bread brooch

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15 Mac & Cheese Recipes | Martha Stewart Some friends and I are participating in Interesting Winter. What is Interesting Winter, you ask. Well, dear reader, it’s our modest attempt at doing something other than hibernate and excessively drink* while we’re slogging our way through another Chicago winter. So, what do we do? Something. Anything, really. Trip to the CSO, five-course beer dinner, go to PechaKucha, take a pottery class, craft/game night, whatever. (If you have any good ideas please let me know.) But why is there a huge picture of mac & cheese for this post? Well, I was thinking that for Interesting Winter we should have a mac & cheese dinner. Everyone can bring a different kind and then we can feast on many versions of one the best dishes known to man! (Grilled cheese would be another excellent option - lactose intolerant need not attend, or should bring a big ol’ box of lactaid.) Perhaps it could be called Gain Twenty Pounds Winter instead of Interesting Winter, or maybe we need to schedule some physical activities - would anyone be interested in winter kickball, or is there an adequate hill somewhere in Chicago for sledding? (via peterwknox:sequinsandsideeye:stickyheels:haygirlhay:sheasylvia) ________________________________________________*But we’re not trying to have a sober winter, rest assured there will be a healthy amount of drinking and drinking-related shenanigans.

15 Mac & Cheese Recipes | Martha Stewart

Some friends and I are participating in Interesting Winter.

What is Interesting Winter, you ask. Well, dear reader, it’s our modest attempt at doing something other than hibernate and excessively drink* while we’re slogging our way through another Chicago winter.

So, what do we do? Something. Anything, really. Trip to the CSO, five-course beer dinner, go to PechaKucha, take a pottery class, craft/game night, whatever. (If you have any good ideas please let me know.)

But why is there a huge picture of mac & cheese for this post? Well, I was thinking that for Interesting Winter we should have a mac & cheese dinner. Everyone can bring a different kind and then we can feast on many versions of one the best dishes known to man! (Grilled cheese would be another excellent option - lactose intolerant need not attend, or should bring a big ol’ box of lactaid.) Perhaps it could be called Gain Twenty Pounds Winter instead of Interesting Winter, or maybe we need to schedule some physical activities - would anyone be interested in winter kickball, or is there an adequate hill somewhere in Chicago for sledding?

(via peterwknox:sequinsandsideeye:stickyheels:haygirlhay:sheasylvia)

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*But we’re not trying to have a sober winter, rest assured there will be a healthy amount of drinking and drinking-related shenanigans.


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“bomb-ass”* smoothie recipe

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup frozen fruit - your choice (This time I had blueberries, grapes, plums, and kiwi. I buy it fresh, chop it up, and freeze in small containers with enough fruit for one smoothie each.)
  • 1/4 cup oatmeal
  • spoonful of peanut butter
  • spoonful of Pawpaw Spiceberry Jam (this is the newest addition to the recipe, I picked it up last time I went to the Ohio Pawpaw Festival)
  • 1/4-1/2 cup of yogurt
  • water, as much or as little as you want, depending on how thick you like your smoothies

 Directions:

  • put it in the blender and hit “smoothie”
  • when finished blending pour in a cup and drink (straw optional, but encouraged, it just makes it more fun)
  • think, oh man, this is such a bomb-ass smoothie I just made, I deserve a high-five!

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*I was talking to a friend and referred to the smoothie as “bomb-ass” in the course of normal, adult conversation. So yes, I’m the kind of gal who describes things as bomb ass, and I’m learning to accept that fact.

Recipe note: All ingredient amounts are approximate, I’ve never measure anything when making a smoothie.

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This weekend I discovered My New Roots, an amazing blog by Sarah Britton, a nutritionist and vegetarian chef. All of the recipes look delicious and I love that it’s not just, hey, this is healthy, so eat it. She takes the time to explain why the ingredients are nutritious. I made the simple mint pea dip and have been eating it non-stop since Saturday. Next up: the raw brownie.

This weekend I discovered My New Roots, an amazing blog by Sarah Britton, a nutritionist and vegetarian chef. All of the recipes look delicious and I love that it’s not just, hey, this is healthy, so eat it. She takes the time to explain why the ingredients are nutritious.

I made the simple mint pea dip and have been eating it non-stop since Saturday. Next up: the raw brownie.

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