Category: Cooking
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Cooking Around the World: I Gotta Have My Gata!
Week five of my journey around the world in a flavor-powered balloon brought us to Armenia, where we sampled both a main dish and a dessert: lula kebabs (ground meat mixed with onion and spices, cooked on a skewer) and gata (a flaky pastry akin to a croissant with sugar between its layers). The kebabs…
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Cooking Around the World: Antigua, Bahama, Come on Empanada
In the fourth week of my “world food tour,” I teamed up two of the top eleven countries that start with A: Antigua and Argentina. Antigua provided Caribbean butter bread, and Argentina brought the main course: empanadas. I used Laylita.com’s recipe for empanadas and this recipe for butter bread, although I combined techniques from a…
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Cooking Around the World: Algerian/Andorran Fusion
Week three of my “cook a dish from every country” challenge saw the classic combination of Algerian and Andorran food that we all love. I made Cannelloni Andorrana (a lamb and pork-stuffed pasta) and Algeria’s maaqouda (potato fritters). For the pasta, I used a combination of recipes from around the Web: I made the pasta…
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Cooking Around the World: Tavë Kosi from Albania
In week two of my “cook every country’s national dish” challenge, I made Albania’s tavë kosi. It’s cubed lamb shoulder covered in rice and then baked in a yogurt sauce; I also made pite në tigan, a fried Albanian flatbread. While I didn’t care for the tavë kosi (the lamb was quite tough, and I…
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Cooking Around the World: Kabuli Palau from Afghanistan
In an attempt to broaden my culinary knowledge and my family’s palate, I’ve challenged myself to cook the national dish from every country (or something close to it). First on the list: Afghanistan. I made Kabuli Palau (a.k.a. Qabili Palau or Kabuli Palaw); it’s chicken topped with rice topped with sugar-glazed carrots and raisins (and…
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This pear bread is the best banana bread I’ve ever made.
The great taste of a banana bread-type quick bread without the mushy spots or occasional bitter aftertaste. From Taste of Home. Also, this site is a recipe blog now.
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Today’s Functional Print: Letter Cookie Cutters
In today’s “delicious but still functional” news, I printed a set of letter cookie cutters as part of a Christmas present for my sister’s family. The theme for our family’s gift exchange this year was “locally made gifts,” and it doesn’t get any more local than my own desktop. I printed the cutters in T-Glase,…
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PiePress. Or, WordPie.
+ = For previous adventures in carving logos into food, see: ‘Scape-o-lantern.
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Corndog bait and switch
“Yum,” said Chris. “I love mini-corndogs! And with 60 of them in this box, it’s such a great deal!” “Oh no!” said Chris. “Someone has replaced my mini-corndogs with mini-corndogballs. This 60-count box no longer appears to be so affordable!” “These do not look like the product pictured on the box,” said Chris. “Not even…
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Christmas cookies
We finished baking our Christmas cookies last night, and two new ones that we tried turned out especially well: Snowballs (as seen on Ooh you tasty little things…), and marshmallow fudge. Snowballs: White-chocolate coated buttercreams Marshmallow fudge