Most of my seconds these days between the spare moments between actual hours of work have been spent micromanaging resources in Ikarium. The drudgery of banking resources in topical Greece gets tiresome when you aren't a blood thirsty war monger like some, but the casual real-time browser game is good for keeping time.However, to save the unemployed masses from despair and sure boredom...
Some food phobias begin with a kind of trauma, and others are born of chance. I remember quite clearly being driven to daycare, lidded tupperware in hand, sipping my heated and by then significantly cooled milk (I've been a slow eater all my life). Suddenly, I found in my mouth a slimy lukewarm coagulated mass of fatty milk skin. Feeling quite rightly that...
Right now the garden looks terrible because the Aerogarden website has been out of nutrient tabs for weeks and weeks. I am planning to make a trip to a Berkeley hydro shop to replace my supply.
My soil garden is finally sprouting, though I have low expectations of success. Our balcony really doesn't get enough sunlight to support the tomato plant and various herbs I planted. Still feels good to have living things outside though...
This is a quick Italian style soup with roasted turnips - made from CSA ingredients and pantry items. Very adaptable!several quarts homemade stock with waterred pepper flakes1 tbsp tomato paste1 lb bag northern white beans, presoaked1 medium yellow onion diceda clove or two of garlic1-2 large carrotsseveral fennel stalks12 oz can of diced tomatocubed potatoesfresh herbs - thyme or basil, bay,salt and pepperIn...
You need cold hands for this easy but messy, chocolate cookie from Martha Stewart's website. Note a correction: The dough should be rolled in granulated sugar before the powdered sugar or else the the cookie will not have any crispness.I sometimes bake the last leftover batch in a flat pancake without rolling in the sugar. Eat with toasty nuts over vanilla or cherry...
This Saveur recipe is absolutely perfect with countless decades, if not centuries, of refinement no doubt. I wouldn't change a thing. Honestly. For the home pasta making, we substituted a smaller amount of on hand greens for the spinach specified. Next time I will make sure we've got the proper ingredient so the pasta will be bright green all over like in the...