cooking
Recipe: Blueberry Crisp with Peaches and Ginger
Ginger adds a warm, earthy, autumn kick to this classic dessert: blueberry crisp with peaches and ginger. Serve with ice cream.
Triple Coconut Cream Pie
The Dahlia Lounge has the best coconut cream pie in Seattle. Maybe anywhere. Here’s the recipe.
Worth the Effort: Coffee Bean Turkey with Sweet Onion Gravy
Tom Douglas shares his recipe for Coffee Bean Turkey with Sweet Onion Gravy
Pomegranate Chicken Recipe
Chicken stewed in a gravy of pomegranate and ground walnuts Ingredients 3 Tbsp olive oil 1 large leek 2 lbs chicken (I like thighs because they’re juicier and more flavorful, but breasts will also work well) 1 tub Knorr Chicken Homestyle Stock concentrate 2 cups pomegranate juice 8 oz walnuts 1/4 tsp cardamom basmati rice, […]
September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
I’m still mulling recipe ideas for the O Foods Contest, but in the meantime, I’ll go ahead and post this notice to spread the word. CONTEST RULES O Foods Contest for Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, and for the second year in a row, Sara of Ms Adventures in Italy […]
Lattes and Lipstick and Recipes and Love
Tricia at Shout brought this story to my attention and I want to repeat it here to do my part in helping spread the word. Gina of Lattes and Lipstick (which I’m adding to my rss reader right now) is raising money to pay for her husband’s cancer treatment by compiling and selling an eBook […]
How To Get Rid of Leftover Cake
made a deep layer of leftover cake, topped it with a layer of drunk strawberries and then topped that with a layer of drunk whipped cream and repeated until everything was gone.
Spiced Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cookies and Milk, originally uploaded by coffeejitters. Tonight I was in need of cookies. Desperate need of cookies. Not just any cookies, I needed chocolate chip cookies. But then I wanted something a little less ordinary too… I rummaged through the pantry and pulled together what items I had on hand and found a collection […]
Cooking with Leftovers: Curried Chicken and Lentil Soup
curried chicken and lentil soup, originally uploaded by coffeejitters. What does a starving student cook when the pantry’s paltry offerings are little more than leftover chicken, lentils, chicken stock and some leftover vegetables? This starving student made curried chicken and lentil soup. I simmered the lentils in the chicken stock, chopped and added the chicken, […]
Persian Recipe: Basmati Rice
Yes. A recipe for making rice. It sounds easy, but many people have difficulty getting it to come out right if they are making anything other than that icky instant stuff. The instructions include washing the rice, and that can’t be emphasized enough. Basmati rice has a wonderful delicate scent: washing the rice releases that […]