ice cream sandwich cookie #3: accidentally awesome honey cinnamon squares

i’ve gotten a pretty quick schooling in american vs. british english since moving to london. trash = rubbish. bathroom = loo or toilet or ‘the ladies’. cell phone = mobile phone (had to make that conversion fast considering i run a business based on mobiles). and on the food side:  zucchini is courgette, arugula is [...]

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ice cream sandwich cookie #2: a lazy lemon rosemary cookie recipe

the simple lemon rosemary cookie above was born out of pure laziness. thought process: what else is in the house besides the basic cookie ingredients?
1. potatoes.  meh…can do better.
2. pasta. not useful.
2. lemons! good.
3. ham. baaaad.
4. a plastic tray of plants masquerading as a ‘garden’ with oregano, basil, sage, rosemary and thyme. yes, perhaps we [...]

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ice cream sandwich cookie #1: C is for cayenne pepper chocolate

i think i may be possessed by a cookie demon. this cookie demon worms its way into my brain and convinces me that it’s a good idea to make a trio of ice cream sandwiches for dessert at rambling restaurant. i listen to this cookie demon and then i find myself experimentally baking 3 kinds [...]

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experiments in the kitchen: orange spice pecan shortbread cookies made with leftover egg yolks

suppose you’ve made a delicious meringue. suppose you then have six egg yolks, tragically separated from their egg white counterparts, sitting forlornly on your kitchen counter and hoping not to be wasted. what to do?
the obvious answer:  you make cookies! i actually think that answer applies to many different scenarios, but maybe that’s just me. [...]

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ginger meringue + fresh whipped cream + perfectly ripe berries = the holy trinity that is pavlova

i’ve always been meh about meringues. the texture’s so dry and chalky and the taste so overly sweet that it felt like a dried out hardened marshmallow left to die a lonely death on the arid plains of some forbodingly airless planet. actually, now that i think about it, meringues resemble astronaut ice cream, but [...]

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experiments in the kitchen: zucchini, potato, and onion focaccia with fresh herbs

i’m making focaccia for rambling restaurant tomorrow! i’m excited because it’s my first time doing any real cooking for our secret supper underground restaurant and because i’m currently in the midst of a focaccia obsession. i’m also a little nervous because it’s my first time doing any real cooking for our secret supper underground restaurant [...]

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experiments in the kitchen: a (non)recipe for roasted tomato focaccia with mixed garden herbs

i am not particularly good at following directions when it comes to baking. often, i am also bad at planning ahead to make sure i have/purchase all the ingredients necessary to make whatever i initially planned. i used to think that both those failings were major liabilities on the kitchen front, but i’ve decided that [...]

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storming the castle walls!

i ‘ve heard and generally agree with the statement that cooking is an art and baking is a science.  this phrase explains why i love baking (yay science experiments!) and why i am sometimes so ridiculously terrible at it (just like in a lab, chemical reactions require precise measurements. duh.)
there is certainly room for experimentation [...]

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family cupcake hotness

irene and lauren looking SAUCY. only second in attractiveness to a Duoseptuagenuple Stuf Oreo.

jasongraphix, you’re my hero.

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