tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85032644657016603002024-02-20T23:14:58.038-08:00If I Knew You Were Coming, I'd Have Baked a CakeCooking. Teaching. Often delicious. Always hilarious.Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05305798659296916366noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503264465701660300.post-17552932376939816302015-04-05T22:46:00.001-07:002015-04-19T18:32:49.547-07:00Class is in session (literally)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The glorious untouched nature of filled supply kits, August 2014.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />For all of you who have been wondering where have I been? (Yes, all zero of you. Hush, a girl can dream.)
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The short answer is? Busy.</span><br />
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The slightly longer answer is I've been working (and sleeping and eating and sometimes even <i>dreaming</i>) my job. I'm a teacher. More importantly, I'm substitute teacher who is the unofficial "Maternity Leave Sub" at my school. This means for the past four semesters in a row inclusively, I have been working as a long-term sub for a teacher that has left to have a baby or some other reason.</span><br />
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As a long-term sub, you have most (if not all) of the responsibilities that you have as a full-time teacher <strike>and less of the pay!</strike> without the security of a permanent position. Fun times.</span><br />
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Still, I hope to talk about some of the hilariously tiring--and tiringly hilarious?--things that make teaching the largest part of my life. And to start blogging again, because I miss it.</span><br />
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So watch this space for teaching stuff, baking stuff, and anything else that comes to mind.</span><br />
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Happy Easter!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Glad to know that the Easter Bunny gives all kids (big and little) a basket!</span></td></tr>
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<br />Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14969448493852261659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503264465701660300.post-66350185725965147882014-07-14T18:53:00.002-07:002015-04-05T22:46:44.059-07:00Of frosting and friendship: Owl Cucpakes<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can no doubt see where<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The college where I spent my undergrad years, amusingly, did not have an official mascot when I first attended. Since I had just left a high school where we were a color rather than some alliterative animal (Big Green was only marginally better than calling us "the Doors"), I didn't find it that odd. Still, as a writer for the sports section of the college paper, calling us the "Bryn Mawr College Mawrtyrs" had always seemed overly literal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The owl had long been the school's unofficial mascot, joining the ranks of other Beanie Baby-esque animals wearing minuscule college t-shirts in the campus bookstore. In my junior year (if this is false, someone with a better memory please correct me) the college officially voted that the owl would be our official athletic mascot. It still blows my mind that next year will be my 10th college reunion. Weird.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At a picnic potluck for college friends one spring day, I was tasked with bringing dessert. Deciding to embody the saying GO BIG OR GO HOME, I decided to make some adorable and thematic cupcakes. And so the Owl cupcakes were born.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This recipe is best made with friends, for manual labor if nothing else. Like all artistic cupcake decorating endeavors, please leave yourself plenty of time, as things as simple sounding as 'separate several dozen Oreos without breaking them' </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">takes </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: right;">more time than you'd think. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">cupcake recipe of your choice (though I will not tell if <strike>like I did</strike> you use a mix)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">chocolate frosting, prepared as you'd prefer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2 small bags of M&Ms</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">cupcake pan</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">knife to spread icing</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First: say it with me.... <b>GOT YOUR MIS EN PLACE???</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Probably not, because I haven't told you how they should be... prepared, for lack of a better word.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Make your cupcakes. After baking, let them cool. No one likes melting owls. Except for perhaps <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=melting+clocks&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=gHTEU966G6i58gGagoGQDQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1440&bih=779#q=the%20persistence%20of%20memory&revid=29087988&tbm=isch&imgdii=_">Salvador Dali</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. While you cupcakes are baking and cooling, prepare your Oreos. You need to separate the cookies so that you have two pieces: one plain cookie and the other with all the cream. Just like eating them when you were five.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2a. You will discover that separating the cookies cleanly is harder than it looks. This is where the (optional) microwave comes in. By zapping your cookies for about 10 seconds, this loosens the cookies enough that you can separate them, but not so much </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. Spread each cupcake with chocolate frosting. Easy peasy.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of these owls is not like the other,<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. Use two cookies-with-cream pieces to make the eyes. Place an M&M in the middle, as the iris. Feel free to play around with colors!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4a. At this point, it is perfectly acceptable to eat any Oreo pieces that aren't perfect. Not to mention testing a cupcake if needed. And perhaps some frosting. You're thinking of your friends, really.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. Place another M&M (red or orange or yellow... or blue, apparently?) as the beak. Try not to squeal, because you have made the cutest desserts ever. Make sure that you disavow all knowledge of all the owls that look a little drunk or a twigs short of a nest.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And if you don't ice it, <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6. For extra cute, you can create "horned" owls with some extra swirls of icing, which can (if you like) be reinforced with small pieces of cookie stuck in the appropriate place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7. Eat! Share! Enjoy the cute!</span>Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14969448493852261659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503264465701660300.post-52258784819547303072014-07-14T16:46:00.000-07:002015-10-01T11:36:00.397-07:00A Blustery (and Bloggery) Day: SF Food Blogger Bake Sale 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ironically, I've meant to update my blog several times in the past few weeks (or even months), but here is a reason that I can't pass up: this month was the annual Food Blogger Bake Sale. Once again, we were outside Omnivore Books--I totally meant to pick up a copy of Shauna Sever's <a href="http://shaunasever.com/book">newest book</a> about vanilla, independent bookstores need supporting!--and it was a windy and hilarious day of delicious baked goods, amusing conversation and, most importantly, happy customers enjoying the food we and other awesome food bloggers had made.<br />
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I made Dr. Seuss inspired cookies, adapted from a recipe I found online. They came out pretty cute, but be warned--the dough is very damp so it's very hard (or rather easy to do it wrong) to make perfect spirals.<br />
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Seussical Sugar Cookies, taken with love from <a href="http://salttree.net/2012/10/swirled-sugar-cookies.html/" target="_blank">Swirled Sugar Cookies.</a>Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14969448493852261659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503264465701660300.post-4535824307519010602012-11-24T23:54:00.000-08:002014-07-14T17:56:53.045-07:00Worth 9,000+ Words: Fall 2012 in Words and Pictures<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you are a frequenter of my blog (granted, that would usually be if I updated <i>frequently,</i> which I sort of don't) you might notice there are several new entries that seem to have magically shown up in the past. Basically, I am trying to get into more of a normal blogging schedule--we'll start with any kind of schedule, normal or not and work from there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But also, I have recently started to exercise more. While I have been playing pick up ultimate frisbee once or twice a week with the same group of crazy engineers-and-those-who-love-them (I use the word "love" loosely here. My friends are hilarious, yes, but the kind of odd only another odd person could love. ;o) ) since 2009, I've never been what you would call an exerciser. Part of the reason I enjoy ultimate frisbee (besides the hilarious people, the fun parties we throw, and the potential for hot gossip on the sidelines) is that the exercise has a purpose, the game of throwing and catching the frisbee makes all the running and dashing and soreness bearable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, one of my friends from college sent out an email a couple months back about participating in the <a href="http://www.godirtygirl.com/">Dirty Girl Mud Run</a>, a 5K with obstacles and mud (shocker) that is all-girl, all athletic abilities, all mud, all the time. And I did it. And it was awesome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My newest challenge? I have started the Couch to 5K running program, which basically pieces out a training regime in nine weeks that starts at running for a minute at a time... to the whole time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Because I think that cooking and exercise often can go hand in hand (not literally, please do not run while baking, chaos will ensue), I'm thinking I will integrate my stab at healthy habits into this blog. If nothing else, it will give me more material to write about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So never fear! The same hilarious write-up of recipes and Foodie Penpals will continue. I just might share random healthy/exercise/life tips as well. Cool?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now, on to the promised pictures after the jump!</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Top Row</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>1: </b>My friend Kyle had a birthday cake, in all of it's gluten-free glory. Much amusement was had.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>2: </b>At Dirty Girl, they give a small piece of its proceeds to fund breast cancer awareness and as we were lining up at the start line they gave out pens to write our bib number on our arms (to be the most visible for any pictures taken at the event) or to write the name of someone who we were running for. My Aunt Becky, lost to breast cancer, would have loved the hell out of a run where you celebrated getting dirty and being girly all at once. Girls in muddy tutus, man, you haven't lived til you've seen it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>3: </b>The pile of shoes ruined by the race, waiting in a enormous pile to be cleaned and donated to those in need.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u><b></b></u><b>1: </b>The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco at night. Gorgeous. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>2: </b>A collage homage to "Swimmy" by Leo Leonni in my first grade class, a daily reminder that we all must work together to accomplish our goals. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>3:</b> a onesie decorated for the not-yet-born but already-extremely-loved son of friends</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>1:</b> owl cupcakes (can you spot the oddball?) made for a park picnic. Hilarious. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>2: </b>My cat Pete, illustrating some excellent Yoga form. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>3: </b>Vientamese Chicken Meatballs with Spaghetti Squash and Cucumbers, evidence of a rare homemade "fancy" weeknight dinner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looking forward to blending my cooking life with my exercising life and sharing it all with you! Happy post-Thanksgiving weekend!</span></div>
Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14969448493852261659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503264465701660300.post-17589315090563375242012-11-01T23:12:00.000-07:002012-11-24T23:31:05.403-08:00Sugar and Spice: Snickerdoodles<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 1px;">Now don't get me wrong, I like snickerdoodles fine, they just don't light me up. However, as recipes go, this one is excellent, not only because it's pretty easy, but because by rolling the snickerdoodles in cinnamon sugar, they retain all that lovely winter/fall taste and have an excellent texture and visual appeal.</span></span></div>
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beat to combine. If needed, chill the dough until the dough can be formed into
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cinnamon. I didn't put a limit on the cinnamon, just give it enough shakes (and taste it) and stop when you hit whatever level of cinnamon-y sugary goodness you want. Semi-relatedly, look at my adorable bowl!</span></span></div>
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prepared baking sheets. Bake until the cookies are set in center and begin to
crack (they will not brown), about 10 minutes, rotating the baking sheets after
five minutes. Transfer the sheets to a wire rack to cool about five minutes
before transferring the cookies to the rack.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Delicious! If you slightly under-bake them (keep a eye until they just crack) they will keep the moist, chewy toothsome feel when you bite into them. They keep for about a week if out of the air--or less, if you happen to bring them to your pick up ultimate frisbee game with a team full of hungry engineers.</span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I discovered the coolness that is Instructables. It's an amazing website that allows people to share their step-by-step instructions about basically anything.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Need to know how to make rainbow cupcakes? <a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Rainbow-Cupcakes-in-a-Jar/">Check</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Super Mario question block that lights up? <a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Mario-Question-Block-Light/">Done</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anything else you'd ever want to know... yes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While I'm pretty sure I have posted about my love of peanut butter and peanut butter cookies, I was inspired to turn it into an Instructable. The website is very user-friendly and easy to use. Of course, I had to rock a ridiculous name for the entry, but hey, who wouldn't. Don't these look delicious? Click the link to see what I did it!</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Peanut-Butter-Cookie-Perfection/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peanut Butter Cookie Perfection</span></a><br />
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<br />Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14969448493852261659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503264465701660300.post-5811571345654340542012-09-02T20:54:00.000-07:002014-07-14T17:53:56.867-07:00Signed, Sealed, Delivered: August Foodie Penpal Reveal!<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Note: This entry is back-dated as real life has intervened. My apologies!</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the shortest entry ever (in my attempt to catch up to the present day, I didn't want to totally short shrift the awesomeness of Foodie Penpals in August. Here, in brief, is the awesome box that Ione gave me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*The most adorable strainer ever. It's so cheerful and now sits on top of my microwave.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*Somersaults are these cracker type things that are made from sesame seeds and awesome. Super addictive, I give them to everyone who gets assigned to me as a Penpal now, it's hiliarious.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*Delicious cupcake mix and scone mix.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*Raspberry explosion of fun! Otherwise known as dark chocolate with raspberries, raspberry licorice and the aforementioned scones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Interested in signing up? Here's the details:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-On the <strong>5th of the month</strong>, you will receive your penpal pairing via email. It will be your responsibility to contact your penpal and get their mailing address and any other information you might need like allergies or dietary restrictions.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-You will have until the <strong>15th of the month</strong> to put your box of goodies in the mail. On the <strong>last day of the month</strong>, you will post about the goodies you received from your penpal!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-The boxes are to be filled with <strong>fun foodie things, local food items or even homemade treats</strong>! <strong>The spending limit is $15</strong>. <strong>The box must also include something written.</strong> This can be anything from a note explaining what’s in the box, to a fun recipe…use your imagination!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-You are responsible for figuring out the best way to ship your items depending on their size and how fragile they are. (Don’t forget about flat rate boxes!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Foodie Penpals is <strong>open to blog readers as well as bloggers</strong>. If you’re a reader and you get paired with a blogger, you can choose to write a short guest post for your penpal to post on their blog about what you received. If two readers are paired together, neither needs to worry about writing a post for that month.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Foodie Penpals is open to US, Canadian residents & UK residents. <strong>Please note, Canadian Residents will be paired with other Canadians only. We’ve determined things might get too slow and backed up if we’re trying to send foods through customs across the border from US to Canada and vice versa. So, I’m going to keep two separate lists and match US w/ US and Canada w/ Canada!</strong></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Click <a href="http://www.theleangreenbean.com/foodie-penpals/">here</a> to find out more from Lindsey herself!</span>Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14969448493852261659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503264465701660300.post-18867915934342422892012-08-01T23:28:00.002-07:002014-07-14T17:53:25.566-07:00Happiness in a Box: July Foodie Penpal Reveal!<div align="center">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was reading the blog of my friend and fellow SF blogger Ariel (<a href="http://cakesharing.wordpress.com/">Having My Cake and Sharing It 2</a>) and discovered this awesome food blogger "penpal" food swap, where every month you give and receive a box of food goodies from a blogger or reader. It's all set up by Lindsay at The Lean Green Bean, click on the image above to see more reveals and also learn how to join in the fun!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was my first month and I got to send a bunch of funky stuff to Emily at <a href="http://thevegtress.wordpress.com/">The Vegtress</a>, so I got to learn lots of cool things about finding healthy vegan foods to send. Go check out her blog, it is awesome!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was lucky to get matched with Jessica who writes <a href="http://fittalker.wordpress.com/">Fit Talker</a> and wow, so much good stuff!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Aren't you jealous! Jessica had emailed to ask for my preferences (chocolate, yes please!) and poked around my blog and gave me the following (starting left, clockwise):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*<b>Organic Shell Pasta</b> (the name <i>Conchiglie</i> comes from the Italian word for seashell, adorably). I love pasta (especially with tomatoes and onions and.... I'm sorry, where was I? ) so I can't wait to make dinner with these, they look so nicely curved to suck up lovely pasta sauce.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*<b>Polynesian Sweet & Sour Dip</b>, which looks delicious and will have to be made the next time I have friends over.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>*Dried Cherries and Raisins</b>, perfect for snacking while tutoring or otherwise wrangling the many small children I work with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Itty Bitty Measuring Cup</b> (don't you just love that it says "little egg to measure" in French below it?). I love kitchen utensils with abundant enthusiasm, so I can't wait to use this little guy in my next baking adventure!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last but not least is a jar of <b>Raspberry Chocolate Sauce</b> which I predict with be starring on a bowl of ice cream soon in the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So excited to see what I get to give and get for August! Want to know more about the program? Here's the details from Lindsay's blog:</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-On the <strong>5th of the month</strong>, you will receive your penpal pairing via email. It will be your responsibility to contact your penpal and get their mailing address and any other information you might need like allergies or dietary restrictions.</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-You will have until the <strong>15th of the month</strong> to put your box of goodies in the mail. On the <strong>last day of the month</strong>, you will post about the goodies you received from your penpal!</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-The boxes are to be filled with <strong>fun foodie things, local food items or even homemade treats</strong>! <strong>The spending limit is $15</strong>. <strong>The box must also include something written.</strong> This can be anything from a note explaining what’s in the box, to a fun recipe…use your imagination!</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-You are responsible for figuring out the best way to ship your items depending on their size and how fragile they are. (Don’t forget about flat rate boxes!)</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Foodie Penpals is <strong>open to blog readers as well as bloggers</strong>. If you’re a reader and you get paired with a blogger, you can choose to write a short guest post for your penpal to post on their blog about what you received. If two readers are paired together, neither needs to worry about writing a post for that month.</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Foodie Penpals is open to US, Canadian residents & UK residents. <strong>Please note, Canadian Residents will be paired with other Canadians only. We’ve determined things might get too slow and backed up if we’re trying to send foods through customs across the border from US to Canada and vice versa.</strong></span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To sign up, click on the image at the top of the post or <a href="http://www.theleangreenbean.com/foodie-penpals/">here</a> to read and sign up!</span><br />
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Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14969448493852261659noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503264465701660300.post-1996181639392182782012-07-25T16:51:00.002-07:002014-01-04T15:35:34.194-08:00Better Late Than Never: Food Blogger Bake Sale Write-Up<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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those to-do lists, and they have lots of important things like “Feed Cat!” and “Wash
Dishes!” and then down past “Go to Work So You Can Have Money to Feed Cat and
Have Food to Put on Dishes!” you have things like “Finally write the SOS Bake Sale
Blog Post”? It turns out those tasks down at the bottom really don't get done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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highly belated. In fact, I STARTED writing this post on Memorial Day and… only
finished it now. I’ll give you a moment to check the date stamp, and be
impressed at my procrastinatory skills. ANYWAY. Here is the
picture/recipe/write-up post you’ve all been waiting for! An edge of your seat
thriller! Either way, read on after the jump about the awesome day, filled with food, fun, and fundraising.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Take yourself back to
May, 2012, to talk about an event in April. Wiggly time warp finger movements here. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Taking advantage of the extra day
in the weekend (soapbox-ish note: I am grateful even more than I’m sure I know
for all those who risk their lives, sanity, and livelihood to protect our
country and while I am grateful today, I am grateful all days regardless of the
day off from work) to finally sit down and write about this year’s Food
Blogger’s Bake Sale to support <a href="http://www.strength.org/">Share Our Strength</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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just discussing the awesomeness that is SOS with a friend of mine.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the third year that I’ve
participated (see the post about year 1 <a href="http://idhavebakedacake.blogspot.com/2010/04/no-such-thing-as-too-many-cooks-bake.html">here</a>, while I was so organized (read:
opposite of organized) during the second year that I only posted a teaser <a href="http://idhavebakedacake.blogspot.com/2011/05/bloggin-for-cause-food-blogger-bake.html">here</a>)
and I made Banana Bread, recipe courtesey of awesome geek-chef Alton Brown. If
you want to skip to the recipe below, keep scrolling. Otherwise sit back for
some awesome pictures and comments about the day.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #262626;">Once
again we were at the corner of Church and Sanchez in front of <a href="http://omnivorebooks.com/">Omnivore Books</a>, which is an awesome place if you’re looking for the newest
book about marshmallows (</span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Marshmallow-Madness-Dozens-Puffalicious-Recipes/dp/1594745722">written</a><span style="color: #262626;"> by the amazing Shauna Sever Webb, just
sayin’) or a text from 1915 about raising bees (<i>Bees and Honey:
Management of an Apiary for Pleasure and Profit</i>, </span><a href="http://www.omnivorebooks.com/antiquarian.html">here</a><span style="color: #262626;"> about a fourth of the way down the page).</span></span></div>
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was organized and run and looked over by the exceedingly awesome powerhouse
team of Anita, Irvin, Annelies and Shauna (bloggers of Dessert First, Eat the
Love, La Vi En Road and Next Door Baker). Look at them,
being all in charge and photogenic:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(L to R: Shauna, <a href="http://shaunasever.com/">The Next Door Baker</a>, Anita of <a href="http://dessertfirstgirl.com/">Dessert First</a>, Annelies of <a href="http://www.lavieenroute.com/">La Vie En Route</a> and Irvin of <a href="http://www.eatthelove.com/">Eat the Love</a>.)</span></div>
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were lots of amazing offerings at the sale. From made that morning croissants
(that the bloggers definitely “sampled” in the slow time)...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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gorgeous chocolate dipped cookies and truffles by <a href="http://cakesharing.wordpress.com/">Ariel</a>...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There were oodles of treats beyond those pictured: strawberry pies, cookies, macarons, brownies, bars, and other delights! I wish I'd taken pictures of all them! It was lovely to see old faces and make some new food blog friends! While last year it was really cloudy, this year it was warm (we had to keep rotating all the cookies to make sure nothing melted!) and sunny, with not too much wind. A great change to get out in the sun and raise money to end child hunger!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I made Banana Bread, both chocolate chipped and otherwise.
Amazingly, most of it sold. Not so amazingly, the chocolate chip bread sold
better. Chocolate = money.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Overall, we raised <b><i>1140 dollars</i></b> for
the Great American Bake Sale to fundraise for Share Our Strength. As a teacher,
I can see first hand what happens when students are even a little bit hungry. Even those five minutes before snack and/or lunchtime are special in a classroom,
let me tell you; kids shouldn't have to have anxiety about eating enough or not knowing where/when their next meal is.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now, on to the recipe! Alton Brown, you are my hero.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">340 g<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">210 g<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u><i>Ingredient<o:p></o:p></i></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">220 g<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 77pt;" valign="top" width="77"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Baking Soda<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 76pt;" valign="top" width="76"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6 g<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 76pt;" valign="top" width="76"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1 tsp<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 76pt;" valign="top" width="76"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 75pt;" valign="top" width="75"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 77pt;" valign="top" width="77"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Salt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 76pt;" valign="top" width="76"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6 g<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 76pt;" valign="top" width="76"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1 tsp<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626;">WET WORKS 2</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: Times;"><tbody></tbody></table>
<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: Times;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 77pt;" valign="top" width="77"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><u>Ingredient<o:p></o:p></u></i></span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 76pt;" valign="top" width="76"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><u>Weight<o:p></o:p></u></i></span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 76pt;" valign="top" width="76"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><u>Volume<o:p></o:p></u></i></span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 75pt;" valign="top" width="75"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><u>Count<o:p></o:p></u></i></span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 76pt;" valign="top" width="76"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><u>Prep</u></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 77pt;" valign="top" width="77"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unsalted Butter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 76pt;" valign="top" width="76"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">113 g<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 76pt;" valign="top" width="76"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8 tbs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 75pt;" valign="top" width="75"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1 stick<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 76pt;" valign="top" width="76"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">melted and cooled<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 77pt;" valign="top" width="77"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eggs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 76pt;" valign="top" width="76"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">100 g<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 76pt;" valign="top" width="76"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 75pt;" valign="top" width="75"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2 large<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 76pt;" valign="top" width="76"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 77pt;" valign="top" width="77"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Almond Extract<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 76pt;" valign="top" width="76"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6 g<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 76pt;" valign="top" width="76"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1 tsp<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 13pt;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626;"><br /></span></b></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626;">THE OPTIONS</span></b><span style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 13pt;">
</div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: Times;"><tbody></tbody></table>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
</span>
<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: Times;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 98pt;" valign="top" width="98"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><u>Ingredient<o:p></o:p></u></i></span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 69pt;" valign="top" width="69"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><u>Weight<o:p></o:p></u></i></span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 71pt;" valign="top" width="71"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><u>Volume<o:p></o:p></u></i></span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 69pt;" valign="top" width="69"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><u>Count<o:p></o:p></u></i></span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 73pt;" valign="top" width="73"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><u>Prep</u></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 98pt;" valign="top" width="98"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nuts (walnuts,pecans, or almonds)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chocolate chips!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 69pt;" valign="top" width="69"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 71pt;" valign="top" width="71"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1 cup<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1 ½ cups<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
</td><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 69pt;" valign="top" width="69"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="color: #262626;">Combine the bananas and sugar and
mix with a potato masher until smooth (Note: I usually have the bananas in a
highly scientific plastic bag, then add the sugar and mush with my hands. Way
more fun!)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="color: #262626;">Combine the <b>WET WORKS
1 </b>and the <b>WET WORKS 2</b> in separate bowls, then combine
them together. (So, if you use the bag method, you only use one bowl! Score!)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="color: #262626;">Combine the <b>DRY GOODS</b> with
the <b>WET WORKS. </b>(Don’t
overmix, it will make the bread really chewy in not an awesome way. You want
the flour to just combine. Feel free to walk away for a minute or two when it’s
almost there and come back, some of it will absorb that way.) <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="color: #262626;">If using <b>THE OPTIONS</b> then
fold them into the batter now.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="color: #262626;">Pour batter into the pan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="color: #262626;">Bake for 50 minutes - 1 hour or
until center registers 210F and a toothpick stuck in the center comes out
clean.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="color: #262626;">Allow to cool on stove top for 15
minutes then remove from pan and transfer to a cooling rack and allow to cool
completely before slicing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="color: #262626;">Tightly wrapped the bread will keep
at room temp for about 5 days.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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your batter can overfill the pan, lengthening the time it will take to bake
(duh).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love this recipe because it’s so easy to make additions and
tweak it a little, and also it comes out highly banana flavored as well as
moist. YUM.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14969448493852261659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503264465701660300.post-82491210965356199622012-05-12T21:25:00.003-07:002014-07-14T17:55:34.857-07:00Of Memories and Freshness: Pasta alla Formiana<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato." - Lewis Grizzard</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I was in elementary school (somewhere
between 1<sup>st</sup> and 3<sup>rd</sup> grade, the dates are hazy) my
parents, sister and I lived in a house in Southern California that had been
previously owned by my grandparents. It was a bizarre kind of doubling of
childhood memories: I can remember sitting with squirming impatience on the
piano bench at the long dinner table during family Thanksgiving, waiting for
the moment when I would be released to sit on the back steps with my
Great-Uncle, hoping he would teach me more words to “You Are My Sunshine”. On
top of that is the breathless weight of lying in bed in my uniquely constructed
bedroom, three walls of windows swallowing me in the hum and buzz of a summer
night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But the most lasting legacy of my grandparents’
inhabitance of that house came from a row of tomato plants that ran along the
back fence. If you’ve never had a fresh-picked tomato that still carries the
fuzzy green scent of its attatchment to the vine, you’re missing out: I can
still taste the tartfresh slide of it against a piece of cheese and bread, the
overwhelming tomato-ness of it standing up to the bite of yellow mustard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(I never said my tastes as a child were gourmet.
I still contend that yellow mustard is awesome, though I have since discovered
the magic of Dijon and other varieties on a sandwich and elsewhere.)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More nostalgia and tomato-fueled deliciousness after the jump!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now that the weather has solidly turned to
spring/early summer, I can’t wait for the start of tomato season in the Bay
Area—a time, prerusal of handy Seasonal Produce websites tell me, is June.
However, if you can get yours hands on some ripe organic tomatoes, this recipe
for Pasta alla Formiana (which, if you don’t speak Italian, translates to pasta
with a crazy amount of tomatoes*) can help sate all your tomato based desires
and then some. If you don’t try to break into your oven while it’s cooking,
because the smell is <em><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">amazing</i></em>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Hopefully obvious this not an actual
translation. I took Spanish in college.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Adapted from a recipe by Giadia de Laurentis
(<a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/pasta-alla-formiana-recipe/index.html">here</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> 8x8 casserole dish, greased/buttered</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Knife to cut tomatoes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can opener, as might be obvious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Spoon to dish the awesomeness afterwards!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2 cans petite cut diced tomatoes (28 oz all together)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8 ounces small pasta</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1 or 2 cloves garlic, minched or crushed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1/4 cup olive oil, plus extra for drizzling</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1 tablespoon dried oregano</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1 teaspoon salt</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">½ teaspoon freshly ground pepper</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4-5 tomatoes, sliced ½ inch thick</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1 onion, diced and carmelized (optional but totally awesome)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">parmesan cheese</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">frozen or fresh spinach</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">diced cooked chicken</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First, GOT YOUR MIS EN PLACE?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I so rarely do. I actually just made a sign, I’m sticking
it somewhere obvious in my kitchen. Somewhere Anthony Bourdain is feeling
inordinately pleased with himself (even more so than usual) and doesn’t know
why. So chop all the things,
carmelize your onions, etc. Now
would be a good time to do the next step, because preheating your oven to 450
can take awhile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Put oven rack in the middle of the oven. Preheat to 450
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Blend together diced tomatoes and garlic in large bowl (or
in the tomato can, because I am Macgyver-y like that). Add uncooked pasta, ½
cup olive oil (I sort of drizzled in a whole bunch), oregano, salt and pepper. Toss or mix gently until all the
ingredients are coated. Add onions and mix again. If the mixture looks too dry, add more olive oil. You want everything to look wet enough that it won't burn in the oven.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Place half (or a little less than half) of the tomato slices
on the bottom of the casserole dish. You will need the rest to cover the top of
your casserole (otherwise it will burn the pasta tops and have bizarre uncooked
pasta bits), so be aware of the math. </span></div>
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to fill in the inevitable holes when you places circles over a slightly more square space. This will also halt the dreaded "burnt and hard pasta" phenomenon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Drizzle with some olive oil. Bake until the tomatoes are
slightly crispy and the pasta is cooked, about 1 hour. Try not to die from how good it now
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A sprinkle of Parmesan cheese on top would be excellent,
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Smelled awesome in the oven and had a complex tomato flavor,
an exciting blend of roasted tomato in varying sizes. The dish can be cooked
even longer (if you’re me and decide to multi-task and do some yoga that runs a
little long) but you run the risk of slightly overcooking the pasta and making
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Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05305798659296916366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503264465701660300.post-29177696930495442152012-05-12T18:44:00.001-07:002014-07-14T17:57:59.966-07:00Breaking the Radio Silence<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have a post in the works that actually involves food and the creation thereof that I will post today or worst case tomorrow. Apologies forever about the lengthy silence. If you've wondered what I've been up to, here's my life in visual form:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So there has been sadly little in the way of cooking, but the weather's warm, the stress is lessening, and hopefully my urge to write/bake/blog will start cranking back up again!</span></div>
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Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05305798659296916366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503264465701660300.post-87200402036373538462011-05-09T21:51:00.000-07:002014-07-14T17:58:58.350-07:00Bloggin' for a Cause: "Food Blogger Bake Sale" in San Francisco 5/14!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwAJTbCbXcafS3xU0mMyucxFt4fDE5x0oudvi6vy14hWmithcaKmk8PEQXo-flSu-xbJN38ecwnKnXSo1iDnNYfyOXoXZ9942bS1iuR5MPjDPVElGOGtex_rN9IcYvDooMKeL-Iw6d0Uo/s1600/sfbakesalebadge2.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwAJTbCbXcafS3xU0mMyucxFt4fDE5x0oudvi6vy14hWmithcaKmk8PEQXo-flSu-xbJN38ecwnKnXSo1iDnNYfyOXoXZ9942bS1iuR5MPjDPVElGOGtex_rN9IcYvDooMKeL-Iw6d0Uo/s320/sfbakesalebadge2.gif" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604948295222641810" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 250px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 250px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />The obligatory "where have you been and why haven't you been posting, for goodness sake" post will have to wait, because I have more important news. More important than explaining how my life and attention have been sucked away by demanding fourth graders and overwhelming job prospects?</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This Saturday the 14th is the 2nd annual Food Blogger bake sale. I sort of serendipitously discovered it last year and ended up going and making some great friends. Want to read about it? <a href="http://idhavebakedacake.blogspot.com/2010/04/no-such-thing-as-too-many-cooks-bake.html">Go for it</a>!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">If you stop by 18 Reasons, you will almost definitely run into me. Added bonus! For more information, go to the amazing <a href="http://bakesalesf.wordpress.com/">website</a> for this years bake sale, run by the talented and awesome </span><a href="http://dessertfirstgirl.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Anita</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, </span><a href="http://www.eatthelove.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Irvin</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, </span><a href="http://pieceofcakeblog.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Shauna</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, and </span><a href="http://lavieenroute.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Annelisz</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></div>
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Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05305798659296916366noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503264465701660300.post-52652939123220144452010-08-10T16:38:00.000-07:002014-07-14T17:59:38.473-07:00It's Not Easy Being Green: Zucchini Bread<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">There's a saying that friends help you move, and real friends help you move bodies. Turns out that real friends also tell you things like "hey, we'll be out of town next week, and we have lots of lovely vegetables that are tasty and delicious and will be rotten and gross by the time we get back. You should pick them!" [This is not quite what they said, but approximately it.] </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2.</span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Prepare zucchini</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">: wash off any dirt, prune off any dented/weird spots that would freak you out in your batter (what, I'm a fragile soul!), then break your zucchini down into manageable pieces, by which I mean that you might need to have smaller bits that fit in your hand if you have THE ZUCCHINI THAT ATE INSERT NAME OF TOWN HERE. Ahem. Also, if your zucchini is rivaling the size of some European countries, you will have to scrape out any seeds that are now equally huge, because they will not go well in your recipe.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Then, using a food processor (fancy), a mandolin (ooh, fancy), or a hand grater (me), grate zucchini on a small enough hole that they are not too large but not complete mush. How exact of me, right? After grating, you will need to drain the excess moisture either by placing the grated zucchini in a sieve, colander or simply squishing it with some paper towels. Leaving the zucchini too wet will make your product gummy and weird, or so I understand. Ready? Ok.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Grease and flour your loaf pan(s), or line muffin tin with paper liners. I used liners that had lots of little sport equipment pictures on them because I was bringing them to the beach for my Ultimate frisbee group. Also, they were cute and next to the chocolate chips in the baking aisle at Safeway.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Combine flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda, baking powder and salt, as well as nuts, chocolate chips and/or dried fruit, if using. (I meant to put some chocolate chips in some of these, but forgot. Blame Top Chef. No, seriously, I was watching the recent episode while mixing the batter.)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="letter-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">this into the egg mixture. Divide the batter into prepared pans.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I slightly over-mixed the batter--somewhere Alton Brown is weeping without knowing why--so the muffins are a little too chewy, which might also mean that my zucchini was too wet. Dunno. Both the bread and the muffins, though, are very tasty in that cinnamon-tinged, nutmeg-scented sort of way. And besides, you're eating vegetables, it's practically good for you! Or something. Enjoy!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">So I did that. On July 8th. I'll give you a moment to think about what the date is today. At least it wasn't an entire month? Just almost...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Either way, I am happy to </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">finally</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> give you the following recipe, and promise that my next one will be posted in a much more timely fashion :o)</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I was in a baking quandry. Which is less stressful than other quandries, but not by much. I knew that I wanted something dessert-related, because it's delicious and, well, honestly, it's that special time of the month when chocolate is necessary. But I wasn't sure what form it should take. My sister suggested gingerbread (she's been longing for it ever since Christmas). I thought maybe Alton Brown's delicious chocolate chip cookies. My stomach said brownies! My brain then spat out Larry King declaring "Boooooring!" (I blame 97.3, which I listen to every morning, for that particular earworm). I desperately looked through my cookbooks for inspiration.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">To make a long story short (too late!) I figured I'd pull out my cookbook by Dorie Greenspan (she of the amazing awesome brownies) and make blondies! However, because we don't have any butterscotch chips in the house (my house in not exactly the most gourmet, let's face it) and I don't like nuts in my cookies (sorry!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">adapted from </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Baking from My Home to Yours</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> by Dorie Greenspan</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Ingredients (aka Got Your Mis En Place?)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">2 cups all-purpose flour</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Working with a stand mixer, preferably fitted with a paddle attachment, or with a hand mixer in a large bowl, beat the butter on medium speed until smooth and creamy. Add both sugars and beat for another 3 minutes, or until well incorporated. Add the eggs one by one, beating for 1 minute after each addition, then beat in the vanilla. Reduce the mixer speed to low and add the dry ingredients, mixing just until they disappear into the batter. Using a rubber spatula, stir in the chips, nuts and coconut. Scrape the batter into the buttered pan and use the spatula to even the top as best you can.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">So, I was a little skeptical about these when they came out of the oven--as I hadn't put in all the "exciting add-ins" that Dorie prescribed, they became very dense, very gooey bars. With 40 minutes of cooking time, they're done but very wet (which is kind of an oxymoron, but will make sense when you break one open still warm from the oven, as they have a distinct crumb texture but still goo), so let them rest like I didn't (it doesn't help when the smell has your entire household standing raptly in front of the stove while they bake and practically dancing with impatience while you let them momentarily rest on a rack).</span></span></div>
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Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05305798659296916366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503264465701660300.post-19903439176466548402010-05-19T09:52:00.000-07:002014-07-14T18:18:58.214-07:00Sometimes you feel like a nut: Peanut Butter Cookies<div style="text-align: center;">
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I had the crazy idea to start making these at 9pm on Monday night, so perhaps at an earlier hour it would go faster.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Makes</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">: 40 cookies. Yes, seriously, </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">40 cookies</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. At least. Share with your friends, or bake hungry.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><underline><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ingredients:</span></underline><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2 1/2 cups flour</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1 tsp baking soda</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1/2 tsp baking powder</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> 1/4 tsp salt</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">pinch of nutmeg</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2 sticks unsalted butter at room temperature</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1 cup creamy peanut butter</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1 cup packed light brown sugar</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">3/4 cup sugar</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2 large eggs</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1 1/2 cups Reese's Pieces (ie peanut butter candies the size of M&Ms. OMG GENIUS)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">**Before starting: turn on oven to 350 degrees. Find all your ingredients (GOT YOUR MIS EN PLACE?). Find your cookie sheets and parchment paper (or silicone baking mats, which I yearn for). If you have an awesome sister like I do, you can put the peanut butter in one of those </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Kitchen-Art-2-2dCup-Measuring-Adjust-2dA-2dCup/dp/B00117TUJI"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">plunger measuring cups</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> because you got one for Christmas. Makes me feel like Julia Child, though I did not do the voice... which totally takes me back to being a little kid and the time my older siblings were making English Muffin pizzas as if they were Julia Child. Probably was funnier when I was six, but still makes me smile. Heave the stand mixer off the fridge (sheesh, it's heavy). Put on awesome apron because you know how you get when flour's involved.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">If you're smart like I wasn't, pour about 1/4 of a cup of white sugar (fancy if you've got it, but any kind will work) into a small bowl for later.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ready? Ok.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Stir dry ingredients. Put butter in stand mixer and beat until creamy. Add peanut butter and mix until mostly combined. Add sugar, do same. Add eggs one at a time, mixing briefly after each egg. Slowly (with mixer still running) pour "flour mixture" into bowl. After combined, turn off mixer. 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Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05305798659296916366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503264465701660300.post-22080069885085972502010-04-27T10:44:00.000-07:002014-07-14T18:30:45.173-07:00Mom, there’s a Kitchen in my Apartment!: Conquering Leftovers Anxiety<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">When I was kid, meal time just happened: it seemed sort of this instantaneous event where my mother would summon my sister and I from our rooms and there would be delicious food sort of miraculously at the table. As I got older, I realized that this seemingly magic trick actually required work, whether it was chopping vegetables for a stirfry, cooking the meat, washing and ripping lettuce for a salad, etc. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Now that I’m even older still (I’d say “grownup” but as an elementary school teacher, I still retain enough enthusiasm for things like Sesame Street and Disney that I don’t know how “adult” I actually am) it sometimes seems like such a vicious cycle: but I already ate dinner <em>yesterday</em>, why do I have to decide <b>again</b> about what I’m going to eat? So time consuming.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Today is a day of leftovers. In the kitchen, I still have one last serving of the Bean and Red Chard Soup from last week, and one lone Apple Crumb bar (a ridiculous dent between my younger sister, my roommate and myself… not to mention the two pieces that I gave away to the awesome people who make my morning coffee. Share the love, man.) from last Tuesday. I am eating other leftovers (from last night!) stuffed in a tupperware, along with some strawberries for "dessert". Yum.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">However, it is dangerous to simply bank on the fact that you’ll want to eat the food you ate yesterday in the same method and manner today. It becomes too easy to get bored (aww, man, <em>that</em> again?) no matter how delicious it was. Not to mention that reheating a product rarely elevates it in quality.</span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Spice is the spice of life. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Food that has been stored often loses some of the snap and bite that it had when first served. Add some fresh ingredients (a small bit of fresh lettuce, grated carrot, chopped tomatoes… your mom will love that you’re eating vegetables!) or seasonings (fresh or dried herbs, soy sauce, heck even ketchup or butter) and the dish that seemed so dry (literally, see number 1) has new life!</span></b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Same actor, different role.</b> If you made hamburgers, turn it into a stirfry or pizza topping. Most things than be turned into a salad with the cunning addition of lettuce and bottled or fresh dressing. Magic!</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Make things you like!</b> I’m not saying that you should eat chicken wings and mozzarella sticks for the rest of your life (that’s a express train to a spot on <em>The Biggest Loser</em>) but it stands to reason that if you aren’t jazzed about a meal the first time you eat it, putting it in tuperware and having it the next day doesn’t bode well.</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Today I will be eating teriyaki chicken (using Soy Vay marinade, yum) with broccoli and mushrooms over rice. I made it last night in the haze of exhaustion from my new job—a miracle that I shopped, cooked, and even ate before I fell asleep—so hopefully I will be able to employ some of those techniques. Although I may have it cold; depends on if I can find the microwave ;o)</span></div>
Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05305798659296916366noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503264465701660300.post-1345011565238635772010-04-21T22:14:00.000-07:002014-07-14T18:29:09.727-07:00Weather Outside is Frightful: Bean and Red Chard Soup<div style="text-align: center;">
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Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05305798659296916366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503264465701660300.post-23981017884834528212010-04-20T20:49:00.000-07:002014-07-14T18:27:23.050-07:00Some Assembly Required: Apple Crumb Bars<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Because I remember the apple pies of my childhood so vividly (and really, it's kind of unreal how good the smell of apples with cinnamon and sugar cooking is), I knew I wanted to make something related. After meeting Anita at the bake sale, I knew I wanted to finally try something from her book, </span><a href="http://dessertfirst.typepad.com/dessert_first/field-guide-to-cookies.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Field Guide to Cookies</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. So I decided to make apple crumb bars. Because it's like a portable apple pie!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Okay, first thing: if I teach you nothing else today, </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">get everything together before you begin.</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> I really think I need to make myself huge sign called "GOT MIS EN PLACE?" because seriously, shenanigans occur otherwise.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Now, with a recipe that has three distinct components: brown sugar crust, apple topping, then the butter streusel... please do what I say and not what I do (er, did): measure out all your goodies, find all your equipment (dude, I got to use my stand mixer! It was so much fun!) Which leads me to point number 2... so if you learn nothing else besides what I taught you a second ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Read the directions. </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Follow them.</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Love the directions. Because then you will add 3/4 of a cup of brown sugar... as opposed to using the 1/3 measure and adding a whole cup. Granted, this could have worked out worse, because I'm pretty sure the crust will taste awesome.</span></span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">2 tablespoons lemon juice</span></span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">2 tablespoons all-purpose flour</span></span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon</span></span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">For crust:</span></i></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">2 cups all-purpose flour</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">1 teaspoon baking powder</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">1/2 teaspoon salt</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">6 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">3/4 cup light brown sugar (don't forget what I said! 1/4 =/= 1/3!)</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">1 egg</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">For streusel:</span></i></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">1/2 cup sugar</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">2/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">1/8 teaspoon salt</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">6 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, diced</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">1/4 cup chopped walnuts (er, didn't add these.)</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></b></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Step 1: make the filling! </span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Melt butter in a large saute pan over medium heat. Add apples; saute until semi-soft, about 8 minutes. Add sugar, lemon juice, flour and cinnamon; stir to combine. Cook until mixture begins to bubble, then turn heat to low and cook for another 3 minutes, stirring constantly. Transfer to a bowl; let cool. </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Step 2: make the crust!</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Line a 9-by-13-inch pan with aluminum foil, leaving an overhang to form handles for removing the bars after baking. Grease foil with cooking spray.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Whisk flour, baking powder and salt together in a bowl. In another bowl, beat butter and brown sugar with an electric mixer for several minutes, until light and fluffy. Add egg; mix to combine. Add flour mixture; combine well. Pour dough into prepared pan. Gently press dough into the bottom of the pan and about 1/4 inch up the sides, making sure dough is level. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. [Funny story: when you add too much brown sugar, the dough is way less.. well... doughy. Obviously. Hilariously, did not notice the brown sugar debacle until later. Oops?]</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif7MY235dBgYe2Xn8K8CGx8vI3UP4FV6mSnO7lJ59yI1Phq_vq4ilMaxJFGqhQS72dy02WcwAFTe3xL9W577AwygkJ9N-HJVzi_kYg9FSSeawuy3KxwSpaiXOMqdAezUggzBYYmV_RhuQ/s1600/IMG_1434.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif7MY235dBgYe2Xn8K8CGx8vI3UP4FV6mSnO7lJ59yI1Phq_vq4ilMaxJFGqhQS72dy02WcwAFTe3xL9W577AwygkJ9N-HJVzi_kYg9FSSeawuy3KxwSpaiXOMqdAezUggzBYYmV_RhuQ/s320/IMG_1434.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462823880412510802" style="cursor: pointer; height: 240px; width: 320px;" /></a></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Step 3: make the streusel!</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Combine sugar, flour and salt; mix with electric mixer (or use food processor) until combined. Add butter; mix until crumbly and butter pieces are very small. Add walnuts; mix just to combine.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Step 4: assemble! </span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Spread cooled filling over crust, leaving about 3/4 inch between the sides of the pan and the crust. Sprinkle streusel evenly over filling.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Step 5: the baking!</b> Bake until top is golden, about 35 minutes. Let cool completely on wire rack before removing from pan. Cut into 1-by-3-inch bars. Store lightly covered at room temperature for up to 4 days.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb2Cs8_BQU0gilaVvv_MtiKbg3PUGfnhbSbRan49tqCG4d1P06D6xAu3nWfIHc362oTcnTJZ7wUo8g33CqDR1EyvoheAfUT5pEILasoTx96S2lTEa4w_K4ovhraZaPWuXWhaEPrkf8BNo/s1600/IMG_1441.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb2Cs8_BQU0gilaVvv_MtiKbg3PUGfnhbSbRan49tqCG4d1P06D6xAu3nWfIHc362oTcnTJZ7wUo8g33CqDR1EyvoheAfUT5pEILasoTx96S2lTEa4w_K4ovhraZaPWuXWhaEPrkf8BNo/s320/IMG_1441.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462823891620492482" style="cursor: pointer; height: 240px; width: 320px;" /></a></span></b></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yield: 3 dozen bars.</span></span></b></span></b></div>
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Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05305798659296916366noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503264465701660300.post-34107143312372723242010-04-18T16:56:00.000-07:002014-07-14T18:25:41.950-07:00No Such Thing as Too Many Cooks: Bake Sale Snapshots<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">A </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">luscious</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> chocolate cake with coffee buttercream and bittersweet chocolate ganache. How amazing does that sound? And yes, that is the Teacher Katie handwriting once again! Little did I know that it was going to be essential that I stuck my short Crayola markers in my bag before I left the house. Substitute teacher flexibility for the win! This cake went in a flash. Jealous.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why did I not buy of these??? I need to conquer my fear of making bread yesterday. Because I have had very few breads that I didn't like eating, so making them is a logical next step.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">All told, we raised $1650 dollars to help end childhood hunger. Amazing! It was so nice to spend a great day talking food with a group of new friends. Can't wait for more Bay Area Bloggers adventures! I have this hilarious mental image of all of us playing Apples to Apples together. That needs to happen... with some desserts on the side ;o)</span></div>
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Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05305798659296916366noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503264465701660300.post-79244243493382943282010-04-17T21:17:00.001-07:002014-07-14T18:23:47.358-07:00My Feet are Made of Clay: Katharine Hepburn Brownies<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Bonus points if you can pinpoint the quote from the title--also, it be clear that you have unexpected depth* ;o) I have a special fondness for Katharine Hepburn that is doubled (exponentially) by the fact that she is a fellow graduate of Bryn Mawr, which builds nicely into my continued point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Shortly after Ms. Hepburn's death, the New York Times published a letter to the editor where the writer detailed Katharine--in true Mawrter kicking-butt fashion--quelled the author's doubts about school and happened to make her some awesome brownies in the process. It's awesome, so go read </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/nyregion/l-straight-talk-from-miss-hepburn-plus-the-actress-s-own-brownie-recipe-400831.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Straight Talk From Miss Hepburn; Plus the Actress's Own Brownie Recipe</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><em></em>1/4 cup all-purpose flour</span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon (optional)</span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">1/4 teaspoon salt</span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">1 stick (8 tablespoons) unsalted butter, cut into 8 pieces</span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder</span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">2 teaspoons finely ground instant coffee</span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">2 large eggs, preferably at room temperature</span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">1 cup sugar</span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract</span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">1 cup broken or chopped walnuts or pecans</span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">4 ounces bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped</span></span></span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><strong><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">GETTING READY: </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></i></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Center a rack in the oven and preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Butter an 8-inch square baking pan </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(Note: I use a 9x9 pan, which has the downside of making them super skinny, but it totally works because it's so rich in flavor, the smallest amount still feels decadent)</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and line the bottom with parchment or wax paper. Butter the paper, dust the inside of the pan with flour and tap out the excess. Place the pan on a baking sheet.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Whisk the flour, cinnamon, if you’re using it, and salt together.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.bakeaholic.ca/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/dscn0115.jpg" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]" style="color: #874a25; text-decoration: none;"></a></span></span></span><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Put the butter in a medium heavy-bottomed saucepan and place the pan over low heat. When the butter starts to melt, sift the cocoa over it and add the instant coffee. Continue to cook, stirring, until the butter is melted and the cocoa and coffee are blended into it. Remove from the heat and cool for about 3 minutes.</span><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-385 aligncenter" src="http://www.bakeaholic.ca/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/dscn0115.jpg" height="330" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 470px; padding: 0px;" title="dscn0115" width="470" /></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Using a whisk or a rubber spatula, beat the eggs into the saucepan one at a time. Next, stir in the sugar and vanilla (don’t beat anything too vigorously — you don’t want to add air to the batter), followed by the dry ingredients, nuts and chopped chocolate.</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (I don't use nuts, but I usually sprinkle mini chocolate chips in there, which is all kinds of awesome.)</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Scrape the batter into the pan.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Bake for 30 minutes, at which point the brownies will still be gooey but the top will have a dry papery crust. Transfer the pan to a rack and let the brownies cool for at least 30 minutes. (You can wait longer, if you’d like.) Turn the brownies out onto a rack, peel away the paper and invert onto a cutting board. Cool completely before cutting into 16 squares, each roughly 2 inches on a side.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">SERVING:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> These are happy being served in all the typical ways — with whipped cream, ice cream or Hot Fudge Sauce or paired with a glass of milk to allow for dunking. I think they are best at room temperature, when they are at their moistest, but they are also very good chilled.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">*If yo</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">u haven't seen </span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8503264465701660300"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>The Philadelp</i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>hia Story</i></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, you need to. Absolutely awesome and hilarious and I love it.</span></span></span></div>
Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05305798659296916366noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503264465701660300.post-87079103290045187512010-04-14T11:05:00.000-07:002014-07-14T18:21:25.330-07:00Who Doesn't Love a Bake Sale?<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #606060; line-height: 17px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">49.1 million Americans - including nearly 17 million children - lack the means to regularly put enough nutritious food on the table . They are food insecure and struggle with hunger.</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #606060;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">* Children who struggle with hunger are sick more often, recover more slowly, and are more likely to be hospitalized, at an average cost of $12,000 per pediatric stay.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #606060;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #606060;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">* Hunger impedes our children’s ability to learn and perform academically. Undernourished children under the age of 3 cannot learn as much, as fast or as well. </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #606060;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">* Children who regularly do not get enough nutritious food have have more behavioral, emotional and academic problems and tend to be more aggressive and anxious.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #686868; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 23px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">SHARE OUR STRENGTH HAS RAISED </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">OVER $265 MILLION</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> AND PROVIDED SUPPORT FOR MORE THAN 1,000 NONPROFITS WORKING TO END HUNGER.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #686868;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 23px; text-transform: uppercase;"><i>(Source: </i><a href="http://www.strength.org/"><i>Share Our Strength</i></a><i>)</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">It's important to remember that while many of us eat (or often eat to excess) whatever or whenever we want, there are many people (and most importantly many children) in the United States that go without food. Projects like the Share our Strength Great American Bake Sale raise funds that go towards: reduced/free lunch programs in public schools, summer meal programs to insure those same children are fed on school breaks, and many other different food assistance programs for children and adults.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Anita Chu (who wrote the awesome </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Cookies-Virtually-Imaginable/dp/1594742839/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271274982&sr=8-1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Field Guide to Cookies</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, which I got for Christmas in my flurry of baking-related presents) is organizing a SF Food Blogger bake sale (though you don't actually have to be a blogger to help out) at </span><a href="http://omnivorebooks.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Omnivore Books</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, an amazing cooking/food love bookstore in the Noe Valley neighborhood of San Francisco. Her blog, Dessert First--so cute! I always wanted to eat dessert first!--has lots more information (and you can email her if you'd like to bake or help out) </span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/y2n7k3n"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">here</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I'm going to make brownies (omg, the best brownies ever, that will be a soon post) and something else. Maybe </span><a href="http://smittenkitchen.com/2007/12/espresso-chocolate-shortbread-cookies/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">espresso chocolate shortbread</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">? I want to make Anita's recipe for </span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/y6fyr6n"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Apple Crumb Bars</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, it's a great excuse to go to the farmer's market. Oooh, I could get cider too... yum.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">If you're in the San Francisco area and want something sweet from 12 until 3pm on Saturday, stop by Omnivore! You'll get to try my brownies ;o) Not to mention if you stick around, you'll hear Rose Levy Beranbaum talk about her new book, Rose's Heavenly Cakes. Mmmmm, cake.</span></div>
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Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05305798659296916366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503264465701660300.post-84630801392199555152010-04-13T23:16:00.000-07:002014-07-14T18:21:10.202-07:00Life Lessons: Butternut Squash Soup<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />I realized after I'd posted my first post (!!!) and then organized my profile, etc. that it is seems to be paramount that the first recipe I post over here is the "life changing" pot of soup I made. Which, granted, was pretty life changing: though not the first soup I made (I've made beef stew which is pretty awesome, don't worry, you'll get that one too at some point) it was a Big Deal because it involved Unknown Vegetables, aka I had to go to the store, buy a butternut squash (which are inherently kind of hilarious looking), break it down, and cook it. Amaizng stuff, I tell you. I wrote down the recipe the first time, but I will elaborate here with some useful tips and information that I found out after the fact. Let us begin.</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Butternut Squash Soup</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(credit: Jenn, @ </span><a href="http://community.livejournal.com/pollanesque/604.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Pollanesque</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">1/2 stick butter (I put in a little bit more than that and it turned out fine)<br />1 good-sized butternut squash, peeled, seeded, cut into 1-inch chunks<br />1 medium yellow onion, chopped<br />2 medium apples, chopped (and I peeled them, don't know if this matters)<br />6 cups vegetable broth<br />1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract (I'd start with 1 and taste before adding the rest, just in case)</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Extra:</span></b></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> crusty bread to eat with/dunk in bowl.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Now, I wouldn't be writing a very good recipe without taking some time to deal with the most important part of the ingredients, namely "peeled, seeded and cut into chunks". Ever seen a butternut squash? They're sort of... solid. In a way where it's kind of amazing that I still have fingers. So let's talk about the way NOT to do it: peel whole squash, hoping you don't drop it or the peeler or rip your whole finger off in the process. Try to halve squash with large knife in some sort of axe "yeeeeHA" type way as it wobbles precariously on your countertop and you wonder if you could use a sword and. No. Just... no.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Instead, after you've peeled the squash (or before, either way), put it on the cutting board (...you were using a cutting board, right?) and see how there's the big bulb part at the bottom and then the neck gets smaller? You want to basically behead the thing (in a manner of speaking) by cutting right where it starts to get skinnier. Now, you have two squash pieces and you can easily rebalance them on the cutting board and chop into slices and eventually cubes (after first peeling it, if you haven't done so). For some edifying pictures, go to Home Hacks awesome </span><a href="http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/tips-techniques/technique-how-to-cut-a-butternut-squash-065196"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">article</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.<br /><br />Now comes the easier part. Use a soup spoon or ice cream scoop to take seeds out of squash. Add butter, vegetables, and broth to a stock pot (translation: fancy name for kind of big pot) and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer until squash is tender, about 25 minutes. You can find out if your squash by using one of the best inventions: a fork. If you can easily stick in or through a piece of squash, guess what? They're tender. Remove from heat. Add vanilla (depending on how "sweet" you want your soup, I'd start small and build up, otherwise it's a little like having dessert for a meal. Not that that's bad...) Puree with an immersion blender or in a regular blender or food processor. Serve with crusty bread and enjoy. I particularly like the rip up the bread and make impromptu croutons. Yum. A pot serves 4-6, or makes 4-6 meals—keeps well in the fridge for several days.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #009900;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #009900;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Important things to remember</span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #009900;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">knives are sharp. Please be careful. Things you might not remember (because I didn't): vegetable peelers are sharp too, as their job is to </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">peel things</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. Give them as much respect as you give knives, so you will end up cavalierly slicing off tips of your fingers. Also note, it is important to make sure that you blend up all the soup so that they're aren't pieces left in it. If you do, don't worry. In addition, don't feel compelled to go poking around in it, </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">accidentally sticking your fingers in the just short of boiling soup</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></b></span></span></div>
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Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05305798659296916366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503264465701660300.post-86926488080758051132010-04-12T15:27:00.000-07:002014-07-14T18:19:14.592-07:00Portrait of the Writer as a Young Chef<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Growing up, I always enjoyed cooking in the abstract. Singly, the most sophisticated my cookery got was making chocolate chip cookies from scratch; brownies were always from a box (of the Duncan Hines or Betty Crocker variety, I fully confess). I come from a family of cooks, though of the "pinch of this and then mix that in if you want" school, which I personally find a bit stressful. Apparently I do much better with guidelines. Still, as a child, my role in baking was solely observational, with minor stints as assistant peeler and chopper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There was only one experience that deviated from this. I recall with fondness and some sense of bemusement the babysitter who watched my sister and I for about a week when Mom was away (a highly uncommon occurrence) when I was 12 or 13. I remember deciding that we were going to bake... so bake we did: we made several apple pies during her tenure and (bizarrely) popcorn balls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why I was gripped with this sudden fever to create pies, I have no idea. Sadly, I don't think I had any actual role besides the important task of peeling apples. Either that or my fingers and brain have lost any key pie-making muscle memory. Pity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been living in San Francisco for the past almost-two years, yet my "accidental foodie" tendencies sort of snuck up on me. Yet today, here I am, a every-two-weeks recipient of fresh farm veggies and firm enthusiast of farmers' markets; a multi-cookbook owning, flour-smeared apron-wearing, food blog reading (and, finally, writing) cook. Weird, huh?</span></div>
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