genius

24Nov08

Claire at Cookthink posted a great tip a while ago — how to re-grow your scallions.  I must confess that both Don and I were skeptical; it couldn’t possibly be that easy!  We go through scallions like nobody’s business around here.  They go in salads, mashed potatoes, pad thai (mmmm pad thai), and get sprinkled [...]

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Tags: gardening, other bloggers, scallions, tips

horizon-broadening udon noodles

07Oct08

Have you been to your local Asian supermarket lately? Or, like, ever? Because if not, you should go. I’m lucky; I’ve got one of the biggest Asian markets in the area less than ten minutes away. And yet, for some reason, I never go there. I really should — in [...]

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Tags: asian, chives, ginger, japanese food, peanut butter, side dishes, udon noodles

best blueberry muffins ever

29Sep08

No time to talk.  Swamped with work.  Wouldn’t be able to come up with words to express the fantasticness of these muffins anyway.  Please to enjoy recipe.

Blueberry Coffee Cake Muffins
(Recipe source: my imaginary best friend, Ina Garten, here)
12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 extra-large eggs, at [...]

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Tags: baking, blueberries, blueberry muffins, ina garten

the muffin onslaught

22Sep08

Don has been at home for the last week, all day, every day. It’s been nice in some ways, and incredibly annoying in others, as I’m sure you can all imagine. I don’t need to say much about the frustrating aspects of having your significant other in your workspace all day, but I’ll [...]

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Tags: autumn, muffins, pear, walnut

link love

17Sep08

Boy, I suck at this whole regular posting thing.  In my defense, an awful lot of exciting things are happening at my house right now.  But I know, it’s no real excuse.  Fortunately for you, I’ve got a place you can go where somebody IS posting regularly — it’s my mom’s new food blog, Perpetual [...]

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Tags: links, other bloggers

on extreme egg consumption

08Aug08

We go through a lot of eggs around here. Every so often, when I’m going through the grocery checkout with my ‘buy one get one free’ set of 18-packs of eggs, I feel a little awkward. The cashier probably assumes I’m feeding a big family, but I know that it’s just the two [...]

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Tags: easy, egg salad, eggs

summer on a cracker

06Aug08

Summer is definitely the best season for lazy cooks. So long as they’re lazy cooks who like produce, anyway. And guess who fits into that category? Yeah. Don’s mother’s tomatoes were dinner a couple of nights ago, in the form of this fast and simple bruschetta. A few minutes of [...]

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Tags: appetizer, bruschetta, easy, snack, summer, tomatoes

on growing tomatoes

04Aug08

Despite the rampant growth of my basil and other herbs, I’m still sort of a struggling gardener. For years, I was sure I couldn’t grow anything. My mother has one of the greenest thumbs around, but I was sure it had skipped a generation. I killed lots of houseplants before Don finally [...]

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Tags: gardening, tomatoes

neglect

31Jul08

Cookshooteat isn’t the only thing I’ve been neglecting. I’ve been practically absent from the entire internet for the last several months, and I apologize. I don’t have any good excuses beyond being both busy and lazy. In the meantime, I’ve been cooking — but never taking pictures, alas — and gardening. [...]

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Tags: basil, gardening, herbs

monkey bread

04Mar08

I have no idea why they call it monkey bread.  What do monkeys have to do with biscuits and cinnamon and sugar?  It doesn’t make sense.  I’m sure there’s some reason for it, though.  Maybe you intrepid Internet monkeys can figure it out (see what I did there?).  If you’ve never had monkey bread, you’re [...]

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Tags: biscuits, cinnamon, dessert, monkey bread, quick