Recipes & Cooking Notes
Recipes & Cooking Notes
20140221 Spaghetti bolognese recipe to try! http://www.cookscountry.com/recipes/6638-spaghetti-bolognese-for-two WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS: Authentic Bolognese sauce is slow-simmered for hours. The wait is worth it when you want to impress a table full of guests, but for our double serving size we wanted something quicker. We boosted the flavor fast by adding hearty pancetta, dried porcini mushrooms, […]
spaghetti notes 20140209 Made mushroom spaghetti and meatballs and spaghetti Learning more about spaghetti still — I proud of these two because I made them both in 30 minutes flat. Start ~3 quarts of water boiling, preheated oven to 400 F. start peeling garlic, I did 5 cloves, ~3 cloves would have been good. […]
20140208 white sandwich bread Made a couple of loaves of white bread today. I made the bread of top, the BLT is made with that bread in the middle, and the bottom pic is Grace’s bread — it has a crack because Grace didn’t score the bread. Her bread was more flavorful because she […]
20140206 white chocolate chip cookies Made white chocolate chip cookies, essentially following this recipe: http://cookiesandcups.com/the-best-white-chocolate-chip-cookies/ makes 36 cookies Ingredients 1 cup butter, room temperature 1 cup light brown sugar 1/2 cup granulated sugar 3 eggs 1 1/2 Tablespoons vanilla extract 1 teaspoon kosher salt 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp baking powder 2 1/2 […]
20140206 Made refried beans following the great reciple from simplyrecipes.com: http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/refried_beans/ Very simple — soaked the beans for 4 hours, didn’t discard liquid, cooked in crock pot for many hours – 2-3 hrs? It was too late for me to finish it off, so I just put it in the fridge overnight, without draining the […]
botched saltines to biscuits So, once per day, in three consecutive days starting on Thursday 20140130, I made saltines-turned-bland-biscuits, nutty biscuits, and sweet biscuits. Following the success with the cheesy crackers, I wanted to turn my attention to non-cheesy crackers, starting with the humble saltine. I thought I was starting to get the hang of […]