Recipe Interlude: Pumpkin Enchiladas

We got a lovely white acorn squah in our CSA box last week. I used it to make this pumpkin squash soup recipe from Southern Living.  The soup was delicious but the next night I wasn’t in a soup mood.  I knew there were lots of uses for pumpkin in Mexican cooking so I looked [...]

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Eggplant Basil Stir-fry

A few weeks ago, we got basil, eggplant, and a beautiful puple bell pepper in our CSA box.  I’d been reading The Best 30 Minute Recipe from Cook’s Illustrated, and I realized I had the perfect ingredients to use their Create Your Own Stir-fry method with the Spicy Thai Basil Sauce.  It came out so [...]

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Blueberry Blackberry Pie

Using the crust recipe I learned at my pie class, I made a blackberry and blueberry pie last week with berries from the farmer’s market.  It was by far the best crust I’ve ever made.
Blackberry/Blueberry Pie
Crust
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
pinch of baking powder
10T cold butter, cut in cubes
8T ice water with a touch of lemon [...]

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Making Doughnuts

Last week, M and I made doughnuts together.  We used Giada De Laurentiis’s recipe for Italian Doughnuts.  I liked the simplicity of it since it calls for pizza dough which I make often and don’t have to leave rising for very long. We’d seen Giada make these on her show, Everyday Italian, and they looked [...]

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Playing and Learning This Week

On Monday, we drove back from my in-laws house after a long holiday weekend with late bedtimes and lots of playing outside.  We arrived home tired and cranky.  I searched our food stores and came up with the fixings for bean and cheese quesadillas or cheesadillas as C calls them (not that she eats them).  [...]

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Buttermilk Cake with Fruit

As soon as I saw the Raspberry Buttermilk Cake posted at Smitten Kitchen, I knew I had to give it a try.  I got some raspberries and fought off both girls to be able to save a cup of berries for the cake.  It was delicious, but it fell apart spectacularly when I tried to [...]

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Three Day Weekend Fun

Our holiday weekend was packed with activity despite lots of rain.  My parents came to visit providing much grandparently attention and giving Brent and me a much needed date night.  We drank wine, ate cheese, bread, and olives and talked uninterrupted.  Amazing!

On Saturday, M ended year three of ballet lessons with a fantastic recital performance.  [...]

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Warm Goat Cheese Salad and Chocolate Mousse

A few days ago, I decided to go through the numerous sticky notes protruding from my copy of The Sweet Life in Paris by David Lebovitz (my review is here.) and see if I could make one or two recipes with what I had on hand.  So for dinner that night, we had warm goat [...]

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The Sweet Life in Paris by David Lebovitz

I’ve been eagerly anticipating The Sweet Life in Paris for months. I ordered it as soon as it was released last week, and it is every bit as delicious as I expected it to be. I adore David Lebovitz’s witty essays on his blog as well as his yummy recipes.  David worked at Chez Pannisse [...]

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Recent Yumminess

Inspired by this post at Zakka Life, M and I recently had hot cocoa and peeps (seems a bit late, but we’re still in the 50 days of Easter ) during our afternoon reading time.  I’m not a fan of peeps on their own for taste but I love how they look and in [...]

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