Ingredients: 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme, crushed or 1 1/2 teaspoons fresh, chopped 1 tablespoon dried parsley 1 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin 2 dashes cayenne 1, two inch piece of green chili, minced (polbano,or other mild-medium chili) 3 cloves of garlic, minced 1/4 cup ruby red grapefruit juice 1 bottle (12ounces) Lagunitas IPA 1 1/2 to […]
Cheddar Brownie With Whipped Cream & Strawberries
July 24, 2011 by 4 Comments
Yep, you read that correctly, “Cheddar Brownie.” And I’m here to tell you that it’s a brownie revelation. Update: August 1st. I won! Vote for Chaz!. (deadline Friday July 29th). Some back-story, I was asked by the folks at Cabot Creamery to be one of five people to take part in their Summer Dessert Challenge. […]
The first week
February 7, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Officially started and the first week is over. On the whole it was good, though there were a few rough spots. Nearly burning the main dish on my first day… The oven not properly igniting on my second, which could have blown up but instead just blew the door open. Teachers acting like they don’t […]
Braised Short Rib Tomato Sauce With Homemade Pasta
May 28, 2010 by Leave a Comment
This took 3 evenings to make. 1 to braise the ribs, 1 to make the sauce and 1 to make the pasta and put it all together. The short ribs were first seared, then braised in mirepoix, wine, stock, salt, and pepper for three hours. The liquid was saved (fat removed), and the ribs were […]
This cake brought to you by my Google Reader friends & Joy The Baker
July 19, 2009 by 12 Comments
So, earlier in the week I saw these posts in my google reader. Of course, I had to give it a try. If for no other reason than to gross out Steve & Leigh. I’m not going to post photos of the baking process, the ‘wet’ ingredients look kinda nasty when you’re putting this together. […]
Chinese Food…
July 4, 2009 by 1 Comment
Some things I saw out and about. Asshole Sauce? Eww. Speaking of Ewwww A five gallon bucket of Duck Sauce? *shudder* I could read the ingredients from where I sat, it’s loaded with HFCS. Tweet
Vanilla Bean-Cream Cheese-Buttercream
October 14, 2008 by 1 Comment
Oooh. Yes, you should go “Oooh.” and when you taste this you should go “Mmmmmmm, oooh, unnnngg mmmm.” Yeah, it’s that good. Ingredients: 2 8 ounce bricks of Philly cream cheese at room temp. 1 stick of butter at room temp 1/2 teaspoon almond extract 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 Madagascar vanilla bean (sliced, and […]
Brown Butter Carrot Spice Cake
October 14, 2008 by 4 Comments
Yeah that’s a mouthful, imagine if I had included “With Vanilla Bean Cream Cheese Buttercream” but I’m saving that for a separate post because it’s so damn tasty it deserves its own damn write up! So carrot cake, people either love it or hate it, I’m in love with it, but it has to be […]
