Adapted from the basic pancake recipe in The King Arthur Flour 200th Anniversary Cookbook, page 32.
Dry ingredients:
2 cups flour (I used 1c unbleached white, 1c whole wheat)
2 1/2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
pinch ancho chile powder
cinnamon
allspice
Wet ingredients:
1/2 cup mashed sweet potato
1/2 cup oil
1 cup orange juice
2 eggs
A little melted butter [...]
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Today’s version for the contra dance potluck:
2 sweet potatoes, 2 carrots, 1 beet, cut into chunks
large handful dried apricots
small handful dried nectarines
juice of 3 oranges
large dollop of honey
cinnamon, cayenne, minced ginger, salt
put in buttered casserole dish, cover, and bake at 350
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Julie Powell’s blog fame has been transmuted into a book, Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, and 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen. It captures not only the joys and sorrows of cooking (and blogging) her way through Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, but also life as a secretary in New York on [...]
I’m making a debut appearance as a guestblogger over on the wonderful Bakerina’s blog with this entry:
I’m not, nor have been, Jewish, but I find the Pesach holiday very meaningful. Pesach is the commemoration of the Exodus story and the creation of the Jewish people, but it can also be a universal story of enslavement [...]
M.F.K. Fisher. What a wonderful, idiosyncratic writer! In one chapter she remembers making eggs in little ramekins while drinking champagne at three in the morning before going to bed; in another she suggests that one leave the grease from mixing up meatloaf on your hands for a while as a moisturizer. This in a book [...]
By Andrew Weil. Typically genial and radical opinions on healthy living.
By Dean Ornish. Sigh. My weight really is just too much. This is one of the low-to-no fat diets. Very badly written (and/or edited), with repetitive paragraphs as well as chapters. I’ve lent it out already.
