Posts under ‘recipes’

Yes, we still live, hallooo!
Had dinner with some old friends last night at the tapas place Cafe Tu Tu Tango in Orlando, wherein Husband was entranced by the Sopa de Leon (a chorizo, chicken and chickpea soup), so today’s side project was cobbling together a reasonable facsimilie.   And here it is:

8 oz chorizo sausage
chicken breast, [...]

Oh how I hate grocery store hamburger buns.  They’re either tough and chewy (from the bakery), or they’re wispy and insubstantial (commercially produced brands).  I make serious hamburgers, people, stuffed with cheddar cheese and crumbled bacon, they need serious buns!
Hamburger Buns
Ingredients:

5 cups all purpose flour
2 pkgs dry yeast
1 cup milk
3/4 cup water
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/4 [...]

The original recipe is here.  Below you will find our new favorite version, borne out of my inability to accurately detail the ingredients Husband needed to pick up on his way home from work…
Ingredients:

2 14oz cans of diced tomatoes
1 lb whatever tomatoes you have lying about on counter or in your freezer

1 small onion, finely [...]

As those of you who read a lot of Florida bloggers know…it’s frickin’ hot out there.  This tends to make us not go out there nearly as often as we did in the spring/early summer, so everything in the garden is officially on it’s own.
This is fine with the volunteer tomato, who inexplicably is putting [...]

Would you care to guess how many seeds you get from a 53 1/2 lb pumpkin?

Go on…guess.

1 cup would be the correct answer.

Seems paltry for a fruit this size, but this is one of those super-mega pumpkins, the kind that people grow for massive size instead of flavor, shape and/or seed production.  If we grow [...]

I think I’ve noted previously that I could happily exist on Chinese food, with the occasional steak thrown in now and then.  The rest of the family, not so much.  Because they’re picky bastards, that’s why.  When we order Chinee both the Husband and Boychild get cashew chicken, albeit WITHOUT any veg.
No vegetables, just nuts. [...]

Whilst on our mini-vacation this past weekend, we took the advice of the hotel “concierge” and visited a restaurant dubiously named Skidder’s for our morning repast.  I decided to try huevos rancheros, having gone all of my 38+ years thusfar without partaking, even though I have quite the torrid relationship with Mexican food.  (It helped [...]

Well, I’ve never canned before, and I’ve never made homemade jam/jelly before…but I’m an intelligent human being with opposable thumbs and better than average reflexes, and I’ve planted 18 freaking tomato plants this year, so I need to get some practice in!
Using Christine Ferber’s Mes Confitures as for theory and baseline (though I will NEVER [...]

So, I’ve had this madeleine pan for years now, never used it, but what with the baking frenzy going on here lately, I decided this weekend would be its maiden voyage.
There are a BILLYUN madeleine recipes out there, people.  Refrigerate 3 hours, eggs at room temperature, dance naked in the moonlight to ensure the perfect, [...]

Borrowed Smitten Kitchen’s Punitions recipe for some cookie slinging tonight:
 

These are thin buttery cookies that are generally sandwiched together with ganache:
 

And make no mistake, they’re completely delicious this way, but I had in mind something a little different:

An approximation of Pepperidge Farm’s Geneva cookie, except this one is done with semi-sweet chocolate and crushed almonds. [...]