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Friday, August 6th, 2010

Sorry for the radio silence.  I’ve been moving, working, and living. I have my new place almost completely set up, and once I finish unpacking and actually get around to buying groceries. I’ll be back in full force!

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Publicity!

Monday, April 26th, 2010

I had a brief interview with Diana Marder at the Philadelphia Inquirer while shopping at the Farmer’s Market last weekend. You can see the entire article here, but if you just want to see my name in print check the second page.

I’ve already sent out a letter to my family letting them know I am getting too famous for them.

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Interlude.

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

The new site is taking longer than expected to be live.  I don’t want to add more recipes just yet, as permalinking this layout really grates my nerves.

My dear Adrian has moved the site from Tumblr to Wordpress.  Much, much better.  The new layout will be out soon, I’ll make sure to make an announcement.

In the meantime, here are some pictures of ingredients I’ve been snapping in the kitchen.  One of the recipes is already on my blog.  The others I’m going to make again before I post a recipe.  I wasn’t a big fan of how the Chinese Pancakes and the Chowder turned out.  Taste and aesthetically they were lacking.  I did get some great shots of the ingredients though!

Sliced Red Onion for Chicken Coconut Curry

Diced Russet Potato for Corn and Potato Chowder.

Chopped Onion and Celery for Corn and Potato Chowder

Lime for Cilantro Lime Rice

Chopped Green Onion for Green Onion Chinese Pancakes.

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One Chicken and Whatever and Whoever: I’m Sick of Chicken Thursday (Late Post!)

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010


So, I caught up on some things and I double checked my blog and realized that what posted was the unfinished version of the post.  I really took a while to re-do this post, because I had some other things that were more pressing.  Though, my blog should be much higher on the priority list.

I’m happy to mention for the first time I’ll be transferring the blog to its own domain with a better set up.

Anyway, on the fourth day I made a few pot pies with the leftover chicken.

Here’s where I’m going to tell you right now what a food blogger I am not.  Since I lost the previous post, I also lost my recipe…

I barely had a recipe to begin with since I know all I needed was a pie crust and filling.  I’ve been reading “Ratio” by Michael Ruhlman and splurged and bought the $4.99 app for the iPhone.  I’ve used it to make many things and I really like the liberation it give me.

Anyway, I grabbed my handy dandy Ratio app on my iPhone and plugged away.  I made enough pie dough for a 9inch pie and threw it in the fridge.  Physically.  It made a thud.  Just kidding.

I took the left over chicken, a quarter of a bag frozen veggies, and the leftover broth I had from the soup the night before and kept it handy.  I made some hot roux (three parts flour, two parts fat) and slowly poured the leftover broth in until I got about the desired thickness.  I like a thick sauce for pot pie, so it was quite a bit.  Add the veggies and chicken.  Heat for ten minutes or so, until everything is warm.  While the filling is heating, take the pie dough from the fridge (should be in the fridge at least half an hour) and fill the pie pan.  I used ramekins and muffin tins to make little, portable pies.  Fill each tin/ramekin/pan, and top.  Bake at 400 for about 30 minutes (until the crust is a nice golden brown.)

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Bacon Potato Leek Soup Update

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

I realized after I posted the recipe that I didn’t do a great job at specifying how much broccoli to put in the recipe and how many it serves.  I updated it (4oz/a quarter of a pound of broccoli and about four if served as an appetizer), but in case you subscribe via RSS, I wanted to give the update.

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2010.

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

I admit, I don’t really have a clear goal for this blog other than to share my favorite recipes with whoever stumbles on the blog.  I do want to have some clear goals to accomplish with cooking in the new year.

Recipes I want to try— some are hard, some are easy, some are just new techniques:
Pad Thai
Macarons (French ones)
Baguettes
Fruit Pie
Snickerdoodles
Marshmallows
Sea Salt Caramels

I also want to work on my bagels and bread baking in general.

I’m trying to find a book I’d like to try every recipe in.  I hope to announce which one in early January, as I have a book I really admire and hear great things about but have yet to actually receive it and leaf through it.

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