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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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My contribution to the 2nd Annual Bacon Party. BLT canape on homemade bacon-cheddar baguette with garlic aioli. I think that it’s safe to say that I knocked it outta the park on this one. I learned two important things when preparing this dish. 1) Baguettes are not as complicated as you might think after reading a few (or thirteen) recipes you found on the internet. 2) Garlic aioli makes all the difference. I don’t know if I can go back to plain old mayo now. (Photo stolen from a friend’s facebook page because I totally forgot my camera, and phone is not very smart.)

My contribution to the 2nd Annual Bacon Party. BLT canape on homemade bacon-cheddar baguette with garlic aioli. I think that it’s safe to say that I knocked it outta the park on this one.

I learned two important things when preparing this dish. 1) Baguettes are not as complicated as you might think after reading a few (or thirteen) recipes you found on the internet. 2) Garlic aioli makes all the difference. I don’t know if I can go back to plain old mayo now.

(Photo stolen from a friend’s facebook page because I totally forgot my camera, and phone is not very smart.)

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Woke up early.Read in bed.Did an hour of yoga.Made breakfast.Quiet dance partied (because the roommate was still sleeping). Saturday morning success. good morning Chicago 02-18-2012 (by sister reba)

Woke up early.
Read in bed.
Did an hour of yoga.
Made breakfast.
Quiet dance partied (because the roommate was still sleeping).

Saturday morning success.

good morning Chicago 02-18-2012 (by sister reba)

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dinner

I just made the most delicious meal ever. So dang good that I ate it all before I could even think about snapping a picture.

I toasted the last of the homemade bacon cheddar bread (see above) and topped it with an over easy egg and an avocado mashed up with homemade (but not by me) habanero hot sauce. 

Damn fine meal, if I do say so.

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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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This afternoon I was invited to two parties. A gnocchi party and a bacon party. Finger crossed that the invite for another whiskey party lands in my email tomorrow (Austin, I’m looking at you). Maybe we should also plan a workout party or a run a 5k party so that we don’t all gain 20 pounds this winter. My friends are kind of the best. Just sayin’.  (Photo from the whiskey party Austin threw two years ago).

This afternoon I was invited to two parties. A gnocchi party and a bacon party. Finger crossed that the invite for another whiskey party lands in my email tomorrow (Austin, I’m looking at you). Maybe we should also plan a workout party or a run a 5k party so that we don’t all gain 20 pounds this winter.

My friends are kind of the best. Just sayin’. 

(Photo from the whiskey party Austin threw two years ago).

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