Chocolate chip cookies !!!

I’m sure there are a million chocolate chip recipes out there, but this one seems to be very well considered and makes fabulous, complex chocolate chip cookies. 2 cups minus 2 tablespoons cake flour (8 1/2 ounces) 1 2/3 cups bread flour 1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1 1/2 teaspoons [...]

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Beet Salad

_7160242 Originally uploaded by oldredsneakers toss shredded raw beets (3 medium sized beets) blanched beet greens candied pecans with olive oil white balsalmic vinegar crushed raspberries from your backyard (optional) salt and pepper top with crumbled goat cheese another yum summer salad, which we ate with the fava bean scramble, but this also didn’t yield [...]

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Fava scramble

_7160251 Originally uploaded by oldredsneakers …before it got ugly looking. How to cook everything vegetarian by mark bittman suggests: toast bread cubes in a pan with olive oil and garlic add blanched fava beans scramble with eggs, salt and pepper it yielded a delicious mess of garlic-infused crunch and savory egg with the nuttiness of [...]

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Fava beans

_7160225 Originally uploaded by oldredsneakers I felt adventurous and bought a pound and a half of fava beans at the grocery store this past week. Silly me, it yielded 15 beans. Nonetheless, I peeled them from the pod that looked like it was filled with fiberglass insulation, blanched all 15 beans, and peeled them from [...]

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Plum Clafouti

Well, I’ve joined on! Last night’s dinner wasn’t anything extraordinary (a big green salad with fennel sausage) I did make one of my all-time favorite desserts: plum clafouti. Mom gave me the recipe, it’s in Mastering the Art of French Cooking Vol. II, by Julia Child. Bake halved pitted sugar plums with sugar, cinnamon, lemon [...]

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grapefruit salad

Pink and Green grapefruit salad: Mix –Pink grapefruit pieces from one large fruit –Chopped Basil, I think I used about 1/2 tsp but more would be good too –lettuce –homemade croutons (but I used 1″ squares of seedy bread toast) Toss with: olive oil salt cracked pepper I wish I had taken a picture, it [...]

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Welcome! And Happy Birthday Mom and Dad!

Welcome to our family’s new food blog, a place for sharing pictures, recipes, etc…  The things we make, photograph, eat, and talk about anyways now have a place on the web.  As soon as everyone signs up with a WordPress username (I am mollyinportland– perhaps chrisinCA and mom&dadinDC?) I can add you as a contributor [...]

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