What do you do when a neighbor kindly gifts you a 3 pound zucchini? You make zucchini bread. Lots of zucchini bread. And if you’re me, where is the first place you look for a zucchini bread recipe? Smitten Kitchen, of course.
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Smitten
Posted in Bread, Cooking, Food, Photo, Recipe, Smitten Kitchen, Sweets, tagged Smitten Kitchen, Zucchini Bread on 31 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
GOOPy
Posted in Cooking, Food, Main Course, Recipe, tagged GOOP, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lentil and Sweet Potato Salad, Liz Kelly, Washington Post on 27 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Gwenny,
You really do make it too easy to pick on you. You can’t help the fact that you are genetically blessed, so I won’t hate you because you’re beautiful. I also won’t hate on you for your career success (truth be told, I really enjoyed you in View From The Top and I was [...]
Waste Management
Posted in Cooking, Dessert, Food, Photo, Recipe, Sweets, tagged Cherry Clafoutis, Kim O'Donnel, Waste on 24 July 2009 | 2 Comments »
Buying items just because they are on sale is only a bargain if you use them. Otherwise they’re a huge waste of money. Impulse grocery shopping usually comes back and bites me in the butt. My most recent example? Those cherries on sale at The Fresh Market were a great price. I was expecting cherries [...]
Muscle
Posted in Cooking, Cooks Illustrated, Food, Main Course, Recipe, South Beach Friendly Recipe, tagged Kitchen Envy, Kitchen Equipment, Oven Roasted Salmon, Smitten Kitchen, Steve McQueen on 22 July 2009 | 3 Comments »
A good amount of the disk space on our Tivo gets taken up with cooking shows. Food Network, PBS, I like to mix it all up. When I watch them, I frequently experience kitchen envy. Seriously, have you seen Paula Deen’s or Ina Garten’s kitchen? Dreamy. Multiple cooktops, deep fryers, and refrigerator drawers. Best of [...]
Don’t Judge a Book by the Cover
Posted in Cooking, Dessert, Food, Recipe, Sweets, tagged "I Want Chocolate", Chocolate & Zucchini, Melt In Your Mouth Chocolate Cake, Trish Deseine, Washingtonpost.com on 20 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Not only is that some commercial tag line, it’s also the God’s honest truth. Sometimes, bad first impressions can’t be overcome. Other times, if you look past them, you find that you were totally wrong. Like that time in middle school when both Kristen [...]
Intersection
Posted in Cooking, Food, Recipe, tagged Creamy Cucumber Salad, Cucumber Salad on 15 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here at Exit 51, like in life, it’s funny how sometimes totally unrelated things intersect. One day I’m going on and on about pickled this and pickled that. The next I’m gushing over my glorious mandoline. And today, I shall bring the two together.
Weird Science
Posted in Cooking, Food, Main Course, Recipe, tagged Cooks Illustrated, Kitchen Science, Pan Seared Steaks, Sun Dried Tomato Relish on 13 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Remember how you were always told in school that math and science were important in life? Me, I didn’t believe it for one second. I think my response was something along the lines of “yeah, whatever”. But if I could, I would go back and tell my adolescent self to sit up and pay attention [...]
Blog Roll
Posted in Cooking, Mark Bittman, Random, tagged Bittman, Food Blogs, New York Times on 10 July 2009 | 2 Comments »
As if there were a shortage of websites to consume my daytime productivity, I had to stumble across this post on Bitten where Mr. Bittman opened Pandora’s Box. It was a simple enough question, what food blogs are people reading. In the seven days between when this post went up and when I read it, [...]
Alton Brown’s Ginger Glazed Carrots
Posted in Cooking, Food, Photo, Recipe, Vegetables, tagged Alton Brown, Food Network, Garanimals, Ginger Glazed Carrots on 8 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It should come as no surprise that I plan out meals in advance. When I do my planning, I try use a Garanimals approach. Remember Garanimals? The line of children’s clothing, originally from the 70’s, designed to let kids put together coordinated outfits. From their website:
“The kid-friendly Garanimals mix-and-match separates provide a simple, coordinated system [...]
Simplicity
Posted in Cooking, Food, Main Course, Photo, Recipe, tagged Chicken with Lime Butter, Simplicity, Washington Post on 6 July 2009 | 4 Comments »
My friend Merriam-Webster defines simplicity as:
the state of being simple, uncomplicated or uncompounded
lack of subtlety or penetration
freedom from pretense or guile
directness of expression
restraint in ornamentation
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