Category: cooking
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Pie failures
For Thanksgiving last year I made pumpkin pie. While I have made quite a few apple and strawberry rhubarb pies by now, I was not very experienced with making pumpkin pie, and my mom doesn’t really like pumpkin much, so she wasn’t that helpful in this case either. I did some research, and finally decided…
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Tofu-stuffed eggplant with mushroom ragout
Tonight I made a new recipe. Clare had bought some mushrooms the other day, and I bought eggplant yesterday. I thought that an eggplant mushroom ragout sounded good, though I didn’t know exactly what it would entail. I googled it, and found 2 good possibilities. The first possibility, which I did not choose, was more…
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A year of new recipes
My resolution for 2009 was to make 52 new recipes throughout the year, or roughly one per week. I tracked my progress using kibotzer.com. I didn’t quite reach my goal, but I ended up making 45 new recipes, and I am pretty satisfied with that. Most of the recipes were from cookbooks I already own…
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Rigatoni with seitan puttanesca sauce
This was my last new recipe for 2009, and it was fairly improvised. I had recently looked up puttanesca in wikipedia, discovering that it is a “pantry dish”, meaning that most of the ingredients are staples in an Italian pantry, and mine too. I did alter it a bit. Normally it has anchovies, which I…
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Penne with butternut squash sauce
We are leaving for vacation tomorrow, so I have been trying to use up what is in the house. One thing I had on hand was a butternut squash. One of our favorite recipes is corn, bean, and squash soup, but we have had that several times recently, so I decided to try something different.…