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Something Delightful: Dainty Carnivores
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Creative cooking in Troy, New York with locally-sourced ingredients. Saturday, April 4, 2015. Roast beef and rocket sandwiches. Red and white endive leaves with Trader Joe's spinach and kale greek yogurt dip. For Saturday breakfast, I took all of the crusts and separated them from the bits of roast beef and greens. I made an omelet with the roast beef and greens, and fed the crusts to the birds. Everyone was happy! Mini chocolate cupcakes with buttercream frosting and caramel sauce. My friend, Pete.
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Something Delightful: January 2015
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Creative cooking in Troy, New York with locally-sourced ingredients. Sunday, January 4, 2015. Toad in the Hole. Downstairs Toad in the Hole*. 3 pork sausages, cut in half. 1 medium onion, quartered and sliced. 1-1 1/2 tbsp olive oil. 2 cups white flour. 2-3 tsp Worcestershire sauce. 1 tsp mustard powder. 1 1/2 tsp salt. 1 tsp black pepper. The most dramatic part is taking them out of the oven, so if you are making them for a loved one or a group, make sure they're around to see! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Something Delightful: March 2015
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Creative cooking in Troy, New York with locally-sourced ingredients. Monday, March 30, 2015. Hands to work, hearts to God. There are two Shaker communities near where we live in Troy, New York. One of them is in the Berkshires, the Hancock Shaker Village, and the other one is in Albany/Colonie. We went to visit shortly after moving here. Aside from their sturdy and simple but beautiful furniture and the song "Tis a Gift to be Simple, Tis a Gift to be Free.". 1/2 tsp lemon peel. 3/4 tsp cream of tartar.
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Something Delightful: A Different Dip
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Creative cooking in Troy, New York with locally-sourced ingredients. Wednesday, February 5, 2014. When we lived in Park Slope, invitations to pot luck parties were always accom-panied by: "please bring something other than hummous! People often commented on gatherings at the Prospect Park bandshell by saying: "I wonder how many pounds of hummous are in this park tonite? Have you experienced this? Just too much hummous in your life? If you have, I have a remedy for you. 2/3 cup bread crumbs. Pickles made ...
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Something Delightful: St. Pat's by Lamplight
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Creative cooking in Troy, New York with locally-sourced ingredients. Wednesday, March 17, 2010. St Pat's by Lamplight. The most unique thing about this year's meal was the whole wheat soda bread. I found a recipe. That claimed to produce little confetti shamrocks when you sliced the bread. And it did! The sunflower seeds react somehow to the dough when it sits and then bakes in such a way that the seeds turn green! 1 3/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour. 2 teaspoons baking soda. 1 3/4 teaspoons salt.
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The Sassy Curmudgeon: National Lampoon's Puerto Rican Vacation
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015. National Lampoon's Puerto Rican Vacation. So I'm going on vacation tomorrow. We all are, but it's really Jeff's. Vacation- because fall is his busiest season, by the time Christmas rolls around he's like 68% dead inside and at least 89% dead outside, so for the past two years he's combatted Seasonal Affective Disorder by throwing his Amex at the tropics- but he's been kind enough to invite me and Sam along. What a sucker. Could mean anywhere from 10% to 90%, as he is currently ...
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The Sassy Curmudgeon: Happy Halloween!
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Saturday, October 31, 2009. So I showed you my Hansel/Anne Heche costume but I didn't show you my previously-mentioned. Around the Way Girl get-up that I wore to a party last night. Mostly I didn't show it to you because I totally half-assed it. I mean, I had the Fendi bag (sort of). And the bamboo earrings (only one pair, sorry LL). Some sweet old-school Reeboks. I also bought a Cross Colours jacket on eBay too amp up my early 90s cred. Luckily I made up for it with extra bad attitude:. Ps - I pray each...
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Something Delightful: Buttery Buttercream
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Creative cooking in Troy, New York with locally-sourced ingredients. Saturday, April 4, 2015. When the owner of a local sweets shop, Sue of Sweet Sue's, joined the board, I had to ask: what was I doing wrong? I beat the heck out of the frosting like my mother taught me, but it always separates. 1 lb butter, a bit warmer than room temperature. 8 oz whipping cream. Heat the egg whites and 1 cup of sugar in a dish set in boiling water. Whisk constantly so that the eggs do not cook. If any part of th...You c...
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Something Delightful: St. Patty's Sourdough
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Creative cooking in Troy, New York with locally-sourced ingredients. Tuesday, March 17, 2015. Another winning St. Patrick's Day recipe! This one adds sourdough to the soda bread, and raisins (or currants) and walnuts to the traditional caraway seeds. I also added sunflower seeds, which sometimes turn a little green during the baking process. I found this recipe. On a sourdough blog compilation. This is fantastic as a toasted breakfast bread, served on the side of soup, or just as a snack with some tea.
