This one had a Silk Road theme, kinda. The standout was David Leibovitz’s Panisse recipe, but the cake from the now-defunct Local Milk blog was great, too!
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Wooden automata
Really beautiful: youtube.com/watch
ESC #15
Dessert was the star this week: this chile-lime pineapple with cardamom-lime ice cream recipe. And the sleeper favorite was the yummy chaat mixes that Nicole brought to top the impromptu chaat salad she added to the menu; I’ll add that recipe when she gives it to me. I tried to make glacéed bananas to goContinue reading “ESC #15”
Cooking and Baking at Altitude
I’ve been cooking at altitude (4500 ft above sea level and above) for my whole life with a couple of brief exceptions, and it’s a lot simpler than cookbooks make it seem if you understand two basic principles: After all my bragging about simplifying things, I do have to point out three exceptions to theContinue reading “Cooking and Baking at Altitude”
5 Months of Yukon Wildlife in 5 Minutes
I don’t know how this ended up in my YouTube feed, but it’s really amazing: featuring the Bear Backscratch Tree youtube.com/watch
Friday Favorites: Blessed Machine–The First 50 Years
There was this nice older lady at my church growing up, Bea Eschelmann, and she told my mom a story once about when her immigrant mother got her first washing machine, she petted it and whispered reverently, “Bless-ed machine.” Thus, my mom used to occasionally bless some device that was saving her time in theContinue reading “Friday Favorites: Blessed Machine–The First 50 Years”
14th Annual Peeps Diorama-rama
While the quantity wasn’t extremely high this year, the quality certainly was.
Gotgam-danji (Korean stuffed dried persimmons)
Not something I would ordinarily go out of my way to make, but Maangchi happened to run the recipe right when I was in the middle of drying persimmons this winter and right after I had made a jar of yuzu marmalade with the 1 yuzu I got from my new tree. So, once theContinue reading “Gotgam-danji (Korean stuffed dried persimmons)”
ESC #13 & #14: St. Patrick’s Day and Distilling Day
Again, no pics of anything. I really am the worst blogger ever. The highlight of St Patrick’s Day was definitely the from-scratch corned beef that my friend Nicole made using the cure from this recipe and the rest of the recipe from this source. I can ask her for it and update. I made thisContinue reading “ESC #13 & #14: St. Patrick’s Day and Distilling Day”
Tips for Snagging Hard-to-Get Reservations for California State Parks
I’ve told you before about Wright’s Beach, how much I love it, and how hard it is to get a reservation for the “premium” beachfront sites. Well, I managed to snag one this year for a week, and it took me enough tries (like, almost every morning for 3 weeks) that I think I canContinue reading “Tips for Snagging Hard-to-Get Reservations for California State Parks”
The Rookery 