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Greens, greens everywhere. And lots of bites to eat.
We’ve got loads of collard greens, bok choy, rainbow chard, red russian kale and spinach in the garden this year. It’s a good thing we love greens, because we’ve been eating them almost every day. Usually I sauté them with garlic and we have them as a side dish. But I’ve also added them to…
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Dave makes crepes
And they were delicious. Dave made the batter the night before, using the recipe from Deborah Madison’s “Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone.” He also made two fillings – cherry and strawberry – with no recipe. That kid can cook!
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The Christmas Eve Construction Project
Dave put together the gingerbread house with help from his aunts, Beverly and Ruth Ann. The younger kids decorated it – and ate a lot of the candy, too.
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Roll over, roll over
I had a request for the Thanksgiving roll recipe, so here it is. I adapted the original recipe to use instant yeast, because that’s what I have on hand. (Instant yeast isn’t really instant. It just means that you mix the yeast with the flour instead of dissolving it in water first.) This makes 2…
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Whole grain hearthiness
This was my first try baking from Peter Reinhart’s Whole Grain Breads. The boule is Transitional Country Hearth Bread (p. 156) and the baguettes are Transitional Rustic Bread (p. 264). Both are 1/2 whole wheat and 1/2 bread flour. The baguette was very tasty and the crumb is perfect. They’re made in the pain a…
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End of an era – if you call the 2009 gardening season an era
The average first freeze date in Crawford county is October 10. We still have tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, greens, and herbs in the garden. I thought I’d take a picture of it before it turns brown. We will cover some of it to stretch the season. But brown is inevitable. The mandavilla and hibiscus are in…
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Pizza Sunday
Every Sunday at our house is Pizza Sunday. That’s not a ufo! It’s pizza dough! My pizza, with pesto, green zebra tomatoes, jalapenos and cheese. Yumm. That’s Dave’s pesto and pepperoni pizza in the background. Gary had, well I’m not sure, but it looks like the leftover pesto, pepperoni, green and red tomatoes and jalapenos.…