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Name: Bob
Country: Belgium
Metro: Brussels
Birthday: 1/13/1982
Interests: books, music, culture, blah blah blah... forgiveness
Expertise: making mistakes, making people laugh, making do with what I have, making up stuff
Occupation: Student
Industry: Research
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Member Since:
1/18/2005
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| ...and this woman didn't help. She's posting a new recipe every day, and I'm considering turning my book-budget into a food-budget. It's happened before, but that was when i turned my bills-budget into my food-budget, with disastrous consequences. Hopefully this time it'll be an easier switch. :)
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| here's what i'm trying tonight: baked sweet potatoes, roast chicken with vegetables, oven-baked zucchini, and rice pudding. i'm getting hungry just thinking about it. so, here's the most interesting recipe, out of the cookbook cited below in the "currently reading" bit. i'll post some pictures later, once the meal comes to be.
2 T unsalted butter
3 leeks, white and pale green parts only
3 carrots
5 shallots
1 whole chicken (4 lbs)
salt & pepper
1 1/2 c. chicken broth
parsley, bay leaf, thyme tied together
1 sprig or 1/2 teaspoon tarragon
1 lb. snow peas
1 package frozen peas (thaw them)
1/2 head broccoli
1 T butter mashed up with 1 1/2 T flour
1. Preheat the oven to 350 F, wash vegetables, cut leeks into 1/4 inch rounds, chunk the carrots into 1 inch chunks, peel and halve shallots.
2. Melt the butter on the stovetop in a pot that can go into the oven. (An enameled Dutch oven would be fabulous, but I don't have one.) Add the leeks, carrots, and shallots. Cook until soft but not browned, stirring occasionally.
3. Rinse and trim the bird, pat dry, and then season (on the inside) with salt and pepper. Place it on the vegetables; add broth and herbs. Bring it to boil, cover tightly, and bake for 60 minutes.
4. Go away and do something else. (This step is here for me, so I won't keep opening the dang oven.)
5. Add snow peas, broccoli, and regular peas. Bake uncovered until these are tender (7 minutes).
6. Find a nice platter. Carve the chicken and arrange it among vegetables. You can thicken the remaining sauce with the butter/flour mixture: just boil and whisk with vigor.
(As for the other stuff I'm making, rice pudding = rice boiled in milk with sugar. Baked sweet potatoes are just as easy, just don't underestimate the time it takes them to bake. And zucchini will go in slices into a casserole, covered with cheese and a cream/egg mixture. Garnish with breadcrumbs. If you read this post in time, come over early. The four of us are eating at 6 to make a concert at 8, and I'm sure there'll be plenty of food...)
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| hi all. it's been awhile, so i thought the best way to come back online was with a recipe. (i'm concurrently working on a random post because carrie tagged me. see comments on previous posting.) so here's the skinny on the banana bread that's in the oven.
it started with an unfamiliar recipe i found saved on a sticky note, and morphed to reflect the things i had on hand. it's morphing again now that i'm writing it down to reflect my own editorial opinions. feel free to morph it again, however you see fit. (i'd suggest nuts or vanilla, if i could be so bold.)
enjoy!
2 cups all-purpose flour
(yeah right. i had 5/4 cups white flour, 1/2 cup whole wheat flour, and 1/4 cup brown rice flour)
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 tablespoon ginger (call me crazy)
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 1/2 overripe bananas (WHY did someone leave half a banana to rot in my kitchen?!)
1 pear, cored and diced not-too-small-not-too-big
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) butter, melted and cooled
2 large eggs plus 2 egg whites (left overs that got thrown in)
1/2 teaspoon pure almond extract (i used imitation)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and lightly grease a 9 by 5-inch loaf pan. I personally don't reheat until I'm halfway through the recipe, but maybe that's because I'm slow. And the great thing about melting sticks of butter (which you're about to do) is that if you leave on the wax paper wrappers, you can just fish them out to use in greasing your pan.
Melt the butter mostly and set it aside to cool.
In a large bowl, combine the first five ingredients (all the dry ones); set aside.
With an electric mixer fitted with a wire whisk, whip 2 bananas and sugar together for a good 3 minutes (like I did this: I just used a hand whisk until I figured it wasn't getting any fluffier). Add the egg whites and beat some more, then add the melted butter, eggs, and almond extract; beat as if your life depended on it and scrape down the sides of the bowl.
Put the previously set-aside dry ingredients in a sifter and sift in while beating. Trade in your whisk for a spatula when you think it necessary. Fold in the pear and 1/2 banana (roughly mashing it to keep some sense of texture) with a rubber spatula. Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan. Give the pan a good drop on the counter to get any air bubbles out. Don't drop it on the floor. You're just risking way too much.
Bake for about 1 hour and 15 minutes, until golden brown and toothpicks come out clean.
Cool the bread in the pan for 10 minutes or so, and then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely. From here, you're on your own: butter, honey, confectioner's sugar, hot fudge, slices, wedges, sandwiches, bread pudding, croutons...
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| Carrie tagged me. 
The Rules: 1. I have to post these rules before I give you the facts.
2. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
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People who are tagged need to write a post on their own blog and post these rules.
4. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
5. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read their blog.
The ERF/H: 1. I think tagging, among blogs, is a communist plot. Don't let them take over the world. 2. I touch my hair when I'm tired. 3. I cook most and best when I'm either frustrated or depressed. 4. South America is the only continent of the habitable six that I've not visited. 5. ENFP. 6. People with authority issues make sense to me. 7. The well-written spy novel is my favorite kind of book. 8. My best dancing happens in the kitchen.
(I tag myself, eight times! Ok, well, I'm also always up for hearing random things or habits. Let's just have it be that everyone who comments on this post tags themselves on my behalf. Everyone down with that? Good.)
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