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September 29, 2009 in daring bakers, vegetarian • 3 comments
The September 2009 Daring Bakers challenge was hosted by Steph of A Whisk and a Spoon. She chose the French treat, Vols-au-Vent based on the Puff Pastry recipe by Michel Richard from the cookbook Baking With Julia by Dorie Greenspan.
When I read that my first Daring Bakers challenge would be to make puff pastry, and [...]
September 27, 2009 in 24 24 24 • 6 comments
Do you enjoy reading Shiny Cooking? Me neither! Voting is open to all in the Foodbuzz food blog awards until September 30. If you like me, really like me, like Sally Field like me, you could toss a vote to Shiny Cooking in oh, the Best New Blog category. Or Best Writing Voice, or Blogger [...]
September 26, 2009 in 100 calorie snack, appetizers, cookies, desserts, vegetarian • no comments yet
Here’s one amazing thing to do with leftover scraps of puff pastry: make mini palmiers. A good idea for snacks for a crowd. They’ll go fast, though!
Warning: drunken post ahead
My cousin Tone is in town, and he brought a big ass RV and several other modes of transportation with him. I countted five: the RV, [...]
September 21, 2009 in breakfast / brunch, how to, vegetarian • 6 comments
Neat, this made Foodie Views of the day! They gave me a pretty button to go with it: foodie_views_link_url = ‘http://shinycooking.com/easy-one-egg-omelet’;
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Routine is a good thing. I lost 60 pounds eating the same thing for breakfast every morning, and anecdotally people suggest that eating the same thing for breakfast and lunch, and mixing it up for [...]
September 14, 2009 in canning and freezing, how to • 9 comments
You can’t beat a home-canned peach. Store-bought doesn’t compare. Some other fruits handle store shelves pretty well, like pineapple and pears, but store-canned peaches are nearly flavorless in comparison.
If you can only one variety of fruit, can peaches.
Linda came over to do it with me, bearing a bushel of peaches from the local fruit market. [...]
September 8, 2009 in garden porn • 6 comments
Previously: How does your garden grow? 8-11-09 edition
What follows is a chronicle of a giant, weed-infested, blight-ridden, cool-summer-stricken garden. It seemed like overnight there were 3-foot weeds in there. And that annoying fungus had killed the cukes and melons near dead.
I guess if the frost holds off til November, we might have tomatoes. That’s a [...]
September 4, 2009 in canning and freezing, gluten-free, how to, vegan, vegetarian • 1 comment
Yup, we sure did.
I provided the kitchen and the canner and my aunt picked the pears, cleaned the pears, peeled the pears, cut the pears, packed the pears, and processed the pears.
I practically did it all by myself!
the canning stuff, yawn
Right there you see the basic canning setup on the stovetop. I began doing this [...]
