Chapstick Cookies
Unappealing title, huh?1 Luckily, though chapstick is a key ingredient in this cookie recipe, no chapstick actually goes into the cookies. Butter, flour, almond, sugar, and jam make these bite-sized shortbread cookies lip smackingly good. Chapstick Cookies2 INGREDIENTS: 1 cup butter, softened 2/3 cup white sugar 1/2 tsp almond extract 2 cups flour3 1/2 cup jam (I used strawberry, but any flavor would be delicious.) a sprinkling of confectioner’s sugar Preheat your oven to 350°F (180°C). If you have a convection (fan) oven, preheat...
read more ->Nut Your Chipical Banana Muffin
I can hear you grumbling already. “I know my banana muffins,” you say. “There’s absolutely nothing special about a banana muffin. Banana muffins are the ones that you find sitting untouched amid blueberry and lemon poppyseed crumbs when you arrive late for your motel’s continental breakfast. Nobody really wants banana muffins.” WRONG! Oh, dear muffin grumbler, you haven’t had these banana muffins. These are not garden-variety,...
read more ->Quinoa Stuffed Peppers / A Recipe in Haiku / Cooking Poetry
searching for quinoa was a challenge in Tangier found it in London I smuggled it home and then made this recipe just for all of you quinoa stuffed peppers a recipe in haiku cooking poetry the ingredients (an assortment of healthy vegetables… plus cheese) 1 cup of quinoa 3 green peppers and 1 red (with their tops removed) 1 can of chick peas 1 cup of tomato sauce 2 diced tomatoes 2 small zucchinis 2/3 cups grated cheddar 1 small onion, chopped half-teaspoon fennel half-teaspoon oregano half-teaspoon basil one pinch black pepper 2...
read more ->Vertically Challenged Bread
Let’s all stay politically correct here, okay? Nobody wants to eat smaller-than-average bread with a complex.1 These went straight from my oven to a fancy dinner part at a local museum. In case you’re not important enough to be invited to such an event, these can also be rolled flat and cut into exciting shapes, like dinosaurs or ferocious undersea predators. Vertically Challenged Bread INGREDIENTS: 2 cups butter, softened 1 cup white sugar2 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 tsp almond extract 4 cups all-purpose flour Preheat oven to 350F...
read more ->Ginormous Ginger Stir-Fry
Ginger. I don’t quite know what to say about ginger. It is one of those elusive ingredients that is easy to find when you don’t need it for anything, and difficult to locate when you do. At least in Morocco. So when I bought a half-kilo of the stuff on a whim, I found myself struggling to find enough recipes to justify the sheer amount of ginger I’d purchased.1 And then it hit me.2 Stir-fry. Killing two birds with one heavy lump of ginger, I justified the impulse buy and satisfied my ever-present Asian food craving at the...
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