The cocktails Chris made last night

For Martin: Blood and Sand: equal parts of scotch, OJ, cherry brandy, and sweet vermouth, but not actually, Chris puts more scotch in.  Unappetizing name borrowed from a silent movie staring Rudolpho Valentino.
For Molly: Corn n’ oil: falernum + black rum (Molly).  Another unappetizing name, made worse by Chris not telling me what falernum was, [...]

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Quick idea from restaurant

Molly and Chris reunited over dinner in CA!
We went to a Puerto Rican restaurant last night and they cook their pinto beans with green spanish olives. I never would have thought of this, but it was delicious! The salty/fruity/savory olives really punched up the flavor of the creamy beans, mmmm.
Also, if [...]

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Eaten simultaneously in 22314 and 97232:

Egg tarte with corn, basil, and cheese + warm potato and green bean salad in mustard mayo dressing.
Mom added salad dressing to the salad, and probably didn’t overcook the frittata.
I used mustard I made from scratch using mustard seeds and homemade beer.
No matter what, cold crustless quiche/fritatta/tarte whatever was DELICIOUS as was salad.  Both are [...]

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Things cooked and eaten too quickly to take pictures: three day weekend edition:

First of all, sorry for the prolonged absence.  Obviously, I have been cooking and eating this whole time, but fell off the blog wagon. I’m back.
Back to things cooked and eaten too quickly to take pictures: three day weekend edition:

Manchego and Parmesan encrusted shrimp over fresh tagliatelli with garlic and lemom

Kumquat preserves

Applesauce and wheat [...]

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Lemoncello and framboise

First, you’ll need two 1.75 liter bottles or big sun tea jars.
Lemoncello:
about a dozen lemons, a few more is OK.
.75 liter bottle of Everclear (grain alcohol) or vodka (cheap is fine). Everclear isn’t sold in all states, but makes stronger (better) Lemoncello.
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups water
Optional: a bit of ginger, rosemary or a [...]

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Beet Salad

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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 great pictures… I made the mistake of adding goat cheese prior to [...]

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Fava scramble

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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 the fava beans. In the future [...]

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Fava beans

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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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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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