Outpost 505

We were supposed to get together for our regular bakefest the other weekend, but after helping Shannon and Matt move, we were more inclined to eat pizza and drink beer than to do anything useful. Which is what we did. And then I took a nap. And we didn’t get around to making these delicious [...]

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OK, this dish wasn’t that spontaneous as it was on this week’s menu – but it was spontaneous in the sense that I made it up as I went along. And oh my god, was it fantastic.  So fantastic, in fact, that I only have photos of the leftovers because the actual meal was devoured [...]

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I’ve been on a Spanish kick the last week or two. I’ve also been thinking that if I’m going to make the 24 loaves I committed to earlier in the year, I need to move on from the perfect baguettes that I’ve been making with the basic AB5 recipe. These two factors directly contributed to [...]

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We’ve both been getting a good laugh out of this post this afternoon, and have been gently and jokingly exploring our mutual annoying habits. I am guilty of: not closing the shower curtain TOTALLY AND INCREDIBLY steaming up the bathroom BEYOND ALL REASON not rinsing out lunch containers that previously contained creamy things (yogurt, salad [...]

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I knocked out two more recipes from my Spanish cookbook last week, both of which were mitigated successes. I say ‘mitigated’ because while we enjoyed both dishes, both had significant problems. First, Lentils and Mushrooms. Photo by Javier García There are few things more hunger-inducing than the smell of sauteeing onions, garlic, and mushrooms – [...]

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photographed by nina leen from the life magazine archives, date unknown. Despite still being under the weather, I spent a very happy hour in the garden yesterday.  I raked the compost into beds and lined the walkways with hay in hopes of preventing at least some of the weeds from creeping into the good soil.  [...]

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The last time I tried to make aioli, it was 2006. Shane and I had only been dating a few months, and I was living in an apartment with a kitchen that I’m 90% sure had previously been a closet. On the night in question, we made fish cakes from my Spanish cookbook and asparagus, [...]

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Things I made or will make tonight: an ordered list. Vegan baked beans – another 2 hours to go, though I may not make it that long Pickled red onions Vegan chili Diced onions, cucumbers, and tomatoes Cole slaw Horseradish aioli which, if it turns out, will knock another item off my 25 Recipes All [...]

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I had mussels for the first time at Granville Moore’s, an unassumingly wonderful Belgian restaurant on H Street in DC.  I regret now that I was put off by the Moules Marinere and instead had a salad.  Since moving to Ann Arbor, however, I have seen the error of my ways, embracing The Earle’s mussels as [...]

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I’ve been remiss in blogging, in part because I’ve been sick, in part because we’ve been in and out of town, and in part because I’ve just been lazy.  We’ve been cooking, but not that much – more often than not making “what the heck is in the fridge?!” kinds of dinners before teaching or [...]

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