tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91164714077777466172024-03-19T04:37:39.543-05:00Maple MacaroniSee Mad Play With FoodAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871454721044060854noreply@blogger.comBlogger319125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9116471407777746617.post-19136331056643212202016-11-15T18:19:00.000-06:002016-11-15T18:19:00.159-06:00Pumpkin-Caramel Baked Doughnuts<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Birthday girl requested pumpkin, so pumpkin she got</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: small;">—and not in any ordinary pumpkin bread sort of way. Because the best kinds of friendships send you to the innovation board, also known as a mesh of Google recipe search results...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">...Until you have her favorite form of sweet treat, the doughnut, with a uniquely fall twist. The thick caramel frosting drapes over these warm-spiced cake-y babes with decadence. Bonus points if you can get Snickers crumbs to actually stick to the frosting before it sets, too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And heres'a leftover batter solution: Throw in some mini chocolate chips and excess Snickers pieces and bake them as mini muffins for a bonus round of treats to take to yet another gathering of people that week. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hey look, this photo actually got treated to natural light. I miss it after 5 p.m. Sad times, this season change brings.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1/2 cup vegetable oil</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">3/4 tsp. ground cinnamon </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1 3/4 cups + 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871454721044060854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9116471407777746617.post-63677536947325443312016-10-19T21:28:00.000-05:002016-10-19T21:36:09.923-05:00Triple Chocolate Oat CakeS<span style="font-family: inherit;">ince this has pretty much become a chocolate cake blog, here's a new one: moist subtly sweet cake with a hint of cinnamon studded with chocolate chips and cocoa-encased oatmeal—all covered in a just-thick-enough layer of rich buttery chocolate frosting with a hidden touch of molasses. Bake it in a 13x9-inch pan, and add some writing icing to step up the celebration factor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When I look at this image, I see the imperfection of small border of congealed butter on the frosting (whoops on cooking that too long) and how I didn't get a photo of the cake whole before it got cut and devoured.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But then I think of how an old roommate with superb icing writing skills just so happened be at my house for a walk right before this cake was to be delivered (and so naturally I enlisted her skills), and minutes later how the <span style="font-size: 16px;">birthday girl, well into adulthood and motherhood, remarked with delight that she hadn't had her name on a cake in years. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px;">I think of cutting kid pieces and then adult pieces, eating with plastic on paper, with people I share in life with week by week. And then I think of plating up a final piece with icing prettiness the next morning and deciding to place it on this piece of artwork that was just hanging out on my porch because I live with talented artists who capture everything I love about forests and mountains and put them on our walls.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">That's when I'm reminded the messy-beautiful of real life is far superior than a perfect cake or a perfect blog photo, and that I can always capture the all of it the old fashioned way in words at any time.</span></span><br />
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<b>Triple Chocolate Oat Cake</b><br />
Adapted from <i>Cooking with Paula Deen</i><br />
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1 3/4 cups boiling water<br />
1 cup old fashioned oats<br />
1/2 cup butter, melted<br />
1 cup granulated sugar<br />
1 cup brown sugar<br />
1 tsp. vanilla extract<br />
3 large eggs<br />
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour<br />
2 Tbsp. cocoa<br />
1 tsp. baking soda<br />
1/2 tsp. salt<br />
1/2 tsp. cinnamon<br />
1 1/3 cups semisweet chocolate chips<br />
Chocolate Frosting (recipe below)<br />
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Preheat oven to 350. Spray a 13x9-inch pan with PAM (or your favorite oil spray).<br />
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In a heat-proof bowl, stir together boiling water and oats. Let stand for 10 minutes while you prep the rest of the cake batter.<br />
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In a large bowl, beat together the melted butter and both sugars until blended. Add the vanilla and then the eggs, beating well after each addition.<br />
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In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Gradually beat the flour mixture into the butter mixture. Stir in the oat mixture and then the chocolate chips. Pour the batter into the prepared pan.<br />
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Bake the cake for 25-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in it comes out clean.<br />
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Prepare the frosting while the cake bakes, and spread the warm frosting on the warm cake after you pull it out of the oven. Let it cool before serving.<br />
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<b>Chocolate Frosting</b><br />
1/2 cup butter<br />
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream<br />
1/2 cup cocoa<br />
1 Tbsp. unsulfured molasses<br />
3 cups powdered sugar<br />
1 tsp. vanilla extract<br />
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Place butter, whipping cream, cocoa, and molasses in a medium saucepan over medium heat, until the mixture is melted and smooth. Remove from heat, and whisk in the powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time. Stir in vanilla. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871454721044060854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9116471407777746617.post-47325875363825500712016-08-15T22:25:00.001-05:002016-08-15T22:25:53.958-05:00Nutella Mousse CakeThe good news is that if, by chance, you cut this cake and serve about half of it, and the remainder topples over into not-so-pretty layers, the creamy Nutella mousse+moist chocolate layer cake combo is still just as dreamy as in its original form.<br />
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I am now wondering why I ever even liked super sweet, thick buttercream when you can sub it will a light and fluffy cream filling that makes a layer cake more creamy than intensely sweet. By the time you incorporate the chocolate-hazlenut spread into whipping cream, its flavor is less intense, making it a simple cool, slightly chocolatey complement to that chocolate layer cake that I make over and over and over again.<br />
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Adapted from <a href="http://prettysimplesweet.com/two-ingredient-nutella-mousse/" target="_blank">Pretty Simple Sweet</a><br />
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1 recipe <a href="http://maplemacaroni.blogspot.com/2011/01/chocolate-peanut-butter-cake.html#more" target="_blank">three-layer chocolate layer cake</a>, baked and cooled<br />
4 cups heavy whipping cream<br />
2 (13-ounce) plastic jars Nutella<br />
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Beat whipping cream with an electric mixer until soft peaks form. Scoop Nutella into a bowl. If the Nutella is not a room temperature, microwave it until it is softer but not warm. (If it gets too warm, wait for it to cool.) Take several spoonfuls of the whipped cream and fold it into the Nutella until blended. Optional: add a few more spoonfuls of the whipped cream into the Nutella mixture and fold them together. Not optional: Add the Nutella mixture to the remainder of the whipping cream and stir until all of the Nutella has been incorporated into the cream.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871454721044060854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9116471407777746617.post-82023095552036381192016-07-28T21:25:00.000-05:002016-07-28T21:33:11.302-05:00Fig Pizza with Caramelized Onions and Goat Cheese<br />
First off, you should know these are not really figs. They are wigs. Because when my roommates first picked them off the neighbor's tree, the name was their way around the law (that doesn't really exist).<br />
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More importantly, one of them invented this wondrous combination of sliced sweet figs with creamy goat cheese, sweet-savory caramelized onions, nutty walnuts, and the magical aroma of rosemary. And most importantly, late summer is the time to make this happen because that's when you find figs in season.<br />
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Last year, I found myself in a particular conundrum. The brilliant creator of the fig pizza had moved out. No fig pizza was just appearing in my oven. So I had to take matters into my own hands.<br />
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It just so happened to be on a night where no one was home after a season of spending lots of time with people. And can I tell you how wondrous it was to create a fig pizza alone (since I had to do it myself and all)? It might not be exactly to the creator's specifications, but I still found it brilliantly delicious. And it brought me back to the day of the wigs, and all the subsequent pizza baking that was shared with their harvesters.<br />
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Cheers to fig pizzas that are almost as wondrous as the memories that are paired with them!<br />
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Olive oil<br />
1/2 sweet onion, sliced<br />
1 ball of refrigerated pizza crust dough (I get mine in the bakery department at Publix.)<br />
Balsamic vinegar <br />
Fresh mozzarella cheese<br />
Goat cheese, crumbled<br />
6-10 figs, sliced thinly<br />
Walnuts, chopped<br />
Rosemary, fresh or dried <br />
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Heat about a tablespoon of olive oil in a medium sized pan over medium heat. Add onion slices, stirring often until caramelized.<br />
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While the onion cooks, roll out the pizza dough onto a floured surface and spread on a pizza pan.<br />
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Spread a thin layer of olive oil over the crust and then a thinner layer of balsamic vinegar. Sprinkle cheeses around on top of oil and vinegar until most of the crust is covered. Arrange fig slices to cover most of the cheese, leaving a ring around the outside of the pizza clear of figs. I like to start in the middle and arrange them in circles, one outside the next. Sprinkle walnut pieces around figs. I like to nestle them in the cracks around the figs. Sprinkle rosemary on top. Once onions are cooked to desired state (I like the quite browned so the flavor really pops), spread them around the outside of the figs.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871454721044060854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9116471407777746617.post-56175781490720404582016-07-18T21:53:00.001-05:002016-07-18T21:55:04.669-05:00How to Make a Simple Yet Awesome Recipe BookletThe end of a life season has a certain power to make my tear ducts drizzle with emotion, even though I claim to not be much of a crier. That's when I whip out words on paper to commemorate the significance of it to those I shared it with. Usually it's in a card, but this time it was in a little recipe book project.<br />
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You see, there once was a group of budding editors, fresh out of school, who tried to "make it" in the dreamy world of lifestyle magazines. Our common bond? Potlucks. These were not affairs of rotisserie chickens, store-bought cookies, and a six pack, mind you. They were themed with each participant contributing a coordinating dish to make for a feast that impressed us in all our food editor-ness every time. And it was always homemade.<br />
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Although our careers took different paths and sent us to new parts of town, the potlucks didn't stop. There were tamale parties at Christmas, backyard barbecues in the summer, Downton Abbey watching feasts in the bleak midwinter, brunches just because, and always, always a fall party with a pumpkin stuffed full of a rice-and-ground-beef casserole-like concoction.<br />
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Eventually, there came lunches to celebrate engagements and talk of what will happen when things change, when some of us were planning to move away.<br />
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That's when I sent out the email, and the recipes started flooding in. We had to have the pumpkin of course, and the corn salad we all remembered from the barbecue. Bri's famous brownies and artichoke dip were musts. And along came some of our favorites that might not have made for potlucks but we thought should be shared.<br />
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And so when wedding time came for two of these ladies, two weeks apart, I bought them a gift off the registry of course. But more importantly, I packed up a flip book of words and photos that are as much about the memories and life shared together as they are about ingredients and procedures, and the extra copies went to the single ladies who compiled, edited, and shared their test kitchen secrets (shout out to the food editor and test kitchen professional among us!) because it's not like we were going to be left out.<br />
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I made <a href="http://maplemacaroni.blogspot.com/2013/05/how-to-make-family-cookbook.html">a more time-intensive, fancily published family cookbook on Blurb</a> a few years back, but this time a took a simpler route. Here's how:<br />
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2. I compiled them in a Word document and shipped them off to the food editor among us, who graciously edited them line by line and divvied them up into sections: Pre-Show Munchies, Sips and Sauces and Rounding Out the Plate. We also pow wowed on a name and tag line.<br />
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3. I designed a cover with photos from our most picturesque potluck, divider pages with a list of recipes, and recipe pages, all four to a 8.5x11-inch piece of paper.<br />
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4. After a round of editing in layout, I printed the recipes on white card stock, the covers and divider pages in color and the recipe pages in black and white, and I had FedEx Office cut them into quarter sheets with their fancy insta-cutter.<br />
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5. I hole punched the top left of each quarter sheet and threw a hole punch confetti party on my table.<br />
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6. I collected all of the papers all into stacks in their proper order and bound them together with a binder ring for easy flipping in the future.<br />
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7. Viola, commemoration recipe project success.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871454721044060854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9116471407777746617.post-90151055174853625422016-06-27T22:28:00.000-05:002016-06-27T22:32:00.938-05:00Pesto Pasta SaladPasta salad has become the love language of the summer of 2016.<br />
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It's just so multiplicitous. I can make a whole batch for a family in the sleepless newborn state of life (and maybe hoard a few lunch servings), and they too can pull it out for insta-meal after insta-meal. I can eat on it, my roommates can eat on it, sometimes once (or twice!) a day for a week, still finding garlicky basily freshness punched into every veggie crisp bite. Before you know it, your roommate is also making multiple batches of the pesto pasta variety and feeding it to her people.<br />
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And then sometimes when TakeThemAMeal.com reminds you to deliver your pasta salad, you get to hear stories and struggles, and figure out that dropping by some dairy-free chocolate the next week when all the crazy of life will be descending will speak love even stronger.<br />
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And sometimes catering-sized pasta salad behemoths will take over your fridge when you marry off a roommate. Then pasta salad becomes the means to laughs around the table and an excuse to blend leftover citrus and berries with some tequila, which might have had something to do with the laughs. And it doesn't stop giving there. It becomes insta-food for a friend with energetic kids whose husband is out of town, and an excuse to stop by and talk with someone who after their super hard day ends up filling you up with encouragement too.<br />
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1 <a href="http://maplemacaroni.blogspot.com/2009/08/pesto-cubes.html">recipe pesto</a> OR 1 jar pesto<br />
1 box bowtie pasta, cooked (I use whole wheat.)<br />
1 rotisserie chicken, with meat pulled off into bite-sized pieces<br />
1 can artichokes, chopped<br />
1 container grape tomatoes, sliced in half<br />
1 green pepper, chopped<br />
Salad greens, optional for serving as your salad bed<br />
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The have nots of my 20s haunted my ascent to 30. I have not
married, or even come close. I have not had children. I have not bought a home.
I have not owned a dog. The approaching-30, not-quite-where-you-thought-you’d-be-in-life
shame is real, and it’s cruel. It’s also full of falsehood. </div>
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In my final weeks
of my 20s, though, I focused my thoughts elsewhere—on the joys and growth that HAVE marked this formative decade. They are abundant and rich. Today, on year
30, day 1, that’s where I am living, and I couldn’t be more grateful.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjltD08Qk8-3hMYjL45uvx0YMBAvAdaeANqH9zv3Wh9epcuk6cKNQY5DFpJFeapSZUCONiJBWF0YnBc8y2TkfqSgKuH5MPc04aWahnbVEPGypTIFh_BlKfzEcbvdgPhy7NBJatmKfsE/s1600/marble-cake-slice.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjltD08Qk8-3hMYjL45uvx0YMBAvAdaeANqH9zv3Wh9epcuk6cKNQY5DFpJFeapSZUCONiJBWF0YnBc8y2TkfqSgKuH5MPc04aWahnbVEPGypTIFh_BlKfzEcbvdgPhy7NBJatmKfsE/s640/marble-cake-slice.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://maplemacaroni.blogspot.com/2012/02/sour-cream-marble-layer-cake.html" target="_blank">Sour Cream Marble Cake </a>for Susan</td></tr>
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1. I baked many birthday cakes, hence the visuals for this
post (scroll down past my verbal explosion for more from my collection). <o:p></o:p></div>
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2. I opened my home. I hosted groups of 20 plus girls and
<a href="http://maplemacaroni.blogspot.com/2011/10/7-days-7-baked-goods.html">groups of 10-15 coeds for lake weekends</a>. I co-hosted potlucks and New Year’s
parties, backyard movies and neighbor gatherings, <a href="http://maplemacaroni.blogspot.com/2014/04/carbless-sugarless-celebration-dinner.html">intimate dinner parties</a> and
houses full of people for going away parties. <o:p></o:p></div>
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3. I was submerged in an icy cold creek on an Easter Sunday
to signify my new life, and a few years later on an Easter Sunday proclaimed
that life to an entire church body. <o:p></o:p></div>
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4. I moved to a <a href="http://maplemacaroni.blogspot.com/2013/09/minestrone-hello-soup-season.html">creaky old apartment in college town, Missouri</a>, with an oven that had to be lit with a lighter, where I learned my
craft of choice from those who know it well.<o:p></o:p></div>
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5. I slowly started my life over in the city where I grew up
with my parents as roommates, and ultimately found layer after layer of magic new and old in the Magic City.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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6. I pursued what I thought was my dream job only for the
bridge to it to crumble and make way for the dream job I never knew I wanted.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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7. A house of three then-strangers became home. Before long,
I’d lived with 12 ladies and found treasures of friendship and companionship
along the way. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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8. I walked through engagement and marriage with friend
after friend after roommate after friend. I loved it. I was exhausted by it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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9. I worshipped with believers
in Creole and Spanish, in Haiti and Guatemala. <o:p></o:p></div>
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10. I developed a voice in
writing, had the privilege of telling people’s stories and nerded out over
grammar like it was my job. <o:p></o:p></div>
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11. I wrote love letters to my mom and to my closest
friends, because who said love letters were just for romance? <o:p></o:p></div>
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12. I went on blind dates with mutual friends and with
complete strangers from the internet, and each time they became slightly less
terrifying. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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14. I wasn’t ready to stop learning. I took <a href="http://beeson lay academy of theology">lay theology classes</a> and classes on calligraphy and <a href="http://maplemacaroni.blogspot.com/2013/11/buttercream-play-dates.html">cake decorating</a>. I attended lectures on
occasion, read things and added 206 books to my “read” list on <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/">GoodReads</a>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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15. I totaled a car, said things I immediately wanted to
take back and saw a darker side of Madoline the Good Girl. Guess what? She’s a
sinner like everyone else.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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16. I felt the weight of sin and darkness more heavily, in
myself, in the lives of those I love, and in people I struggled to love. It
hurt. And it made the power of salvation all the sweeter.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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17. I went on friend dates, dates with my parents, dates
with my brother. I went to local restaurants, on picnics, to plays and concerts. I relished one-on-one and small group conversation. See also: introversion.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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18. I cried big fat ugly cries on occasion and learned that
it’s okay to let myself do that, to grieve the end of something meaningful and
to grieve the hurt I felt from others.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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feeling known and loved by friends who feel like family and sought to be that kind of friend to
them. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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20. I documented my days, my years, my highlights, my
lowlights. I journaled, about spiritual things and not-so-spiritual things. I
stepped up my photography quality and printed photos for an ongoing old
fashioned album. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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21. I composed 351 blog posts about what I cooked, but most
days I cooked with zero care for presentation and photos. More than any kitchen
activity, I baked cookies and cakes, chocolate and chocolate, cookies and
cakes, and chocolate and chocolate. Perhaps most significantly, I baked <a href="http://maplemacaroni.blogspot.com/2011/01/chocolate-peanut-butter-cake.html">this cake</a> and <a href="http://maplemacaroni.blogspot.com/2012/02/oreo-stuffed-chocolate-chip-cookie-bars.html">these cookie bars</a> about 37 times each (that’s a completely random
guess of a number).<o:p></o:p></div>
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22. I embraced my freedom. I took last minute road trips to
see newborn babies and spent days and hours and days of quality time with
friends. I slept in. I daydreamed for hours and hours on end. I came home when I wanted to. I watched what I wanted to. I did what I wanted to. I ate what I wanted to. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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23. I made friends with ladies newer to the adulting thing
than I was. Along the way, I learned age means less than maturity.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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24. I learned to listen and ask good questions—to be a good
journalist, a good friend and a good stranger to talk to. And to value people
whose conversations are marked by these things.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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25. Intentionality became my favorite mantra. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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26. I said yes to responsibility, to a junior board, to a
junior board presidency, to running alumni events, to hosting, to planning.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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27. I got to see and soak in the beauty of giant rocks in Arizona, rivers and mountains in Jackson Hole and Montana, gardens and pastries in England, architecture in Spain,
coastlines in the Dominican Republic and Maine, culture and coasts in Seattle and Victoria, and the scenic contours of my own backyard.</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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everyone immediately is enthralled with two seconds after meeting OR the one who likes large social events, and I have
confidence in the strengths of the personality I was given (ISFJ all the way!).
<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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29. I discovered that church could become the people who feel like home and remind you of the truth you want to believe. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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30. I learned to laugh at the future, to hold my dreams with
an open hand and to love the gifts of the present that I could never have
dreamed up on my own.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Cheers to the advent of my 30s, and to all the cakes to
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://maplemacaroni.blogspot.com/2012/04/tiramisu-birthday-cake.html" target="_blank">Smitten Kitchen's Tiramisu Cake</a> for Laura</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://maplemacaroni.blogspot.com/2013/09/chocolate-buttercream-cupcakes.html" target="_blank">Chocolate-Buttercream Cupcakes </a>for Katie</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://maplemacaroni.blogspot.com/2013/09/chocolate-buttercream-cupcakes.html" target="_blank">Chocolate-Kahlua Buttercream Cupcakes</a> for Madison</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Strawberry Cake (from somewhere on the Internet) for Emily</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://maplemacaroni.blogspot.com/2011/11/chocolate-buttercream-cake.html" target="_blank">Chocolate-Buttercream Cake</a> with <a href="https://www.hersheys.com/recipes/en_US/recipes/184/hersheys-perfectly-chocolate-chocolate-cake.html" target="_blank">Hershey's Perfectly Chocolate Frosting</a> on Top for Sarah Margaret</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://maplemacaroni.blogspot.com/2012/05/chocolate-waffle-bar.html" target="_blank">Chocolate Waffle Bar</a> by Moi for My 26th Birthday</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://maplemacaroni.blogspot.com/search?q=cake+balls" target="_blank">Chocolate Cake Pops</a> for Mom's 50th</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://maplemacaroni.blogspot.com/2011/05/insta-cookie-cake.html" target="_blank">Insta-Cookie Cake</a> for Many Coworkers' Birthdays (but the photo was from Patrick's graduation)</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871454721044060854noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9116471407777746617.post-59576498171895635252016-04-26T21:01:00.003-05:002016-04-28T10:46:43.858-05:00Bavarian Cream Cake<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
One magical day, homemade layers of chocolate cake and creamy something or other appeared in my fridge, courtesy of my roommate's church dinner. Maybe it was because I had suffered through consuming overly sweet icing from a local bakery that most of the world just loves (and I really don't understand<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0pt;">—</span>it's not made with butter, people), but lightly sweet cream opened a new world of cake combos reminiscent of trifle for me.</div>
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Within a week, I had tracked down the recipe, which turned out to be a combination of whipping cream, cream cheese and surprise ingredient brown sugar, and made it for myself with <a href="http://maplemacaroni.blogspot.com/2011/01/chocolate-peanut-butter-cake.html" target="_blank">my favorite chocolate cake recipe</a>. The recipe calls for refrigerating it 8 hours, but the longer you leave it in the fridge, the more wonderfully the cake melds with the cream, bettering with age. </div>
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I also have this recipe to thank for inspiration to ice cake with Nutella cream. Maybe that will make it to the blog next, since all I seem to blog about is variations on cake these days.</div>
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1 recipe <a href="http://maplemacaroni.blogspot.com/2011/01/chocolate-peanut-butter-cake.html" target="_blank">chocolate cake</a><br />
1 pint heavy whipping cream<br />
8 oz. cream cheese, softened<br />
2/3 cup brown sugar<br />
1/8 tsp. salt<br />
1 tsp. vanilla<br />
Chocolate, for garnish<br />
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Prepare cake recipe (either a devil's food box mix in two round layers or <a href="http://maplemacaroni.blogspot.com/2011/01/chocolate-peanut-butter-cake.html" target="_blank">this three layer cake from scratch</a>) according to directions. Bake, invert cake layers and cool.<br />
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Place whipping cream in a bowl and whip using a mixer until still peaks form.<br />
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In a separate bowl, combine cream cheese, brown sugar, salt and vanilla. Beat until fluffy. Fold whipped cream into cream cheese mixture.<br />
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If you made two layer cakes, use string or dental floss to cut the layers in half, so that 2x2=4 layers. If you made a three layer cake, you can just make three layers.<br />
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Spread the creamy mixture on top of one cake layer. Add the next cake layer, followed by creamy mixture and so on until you have used all the cake and creamy mixture. Shave chocolate on top of cake for garnish, if desired.<br />
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Refrigerate cake 8 hours before serving so cake and cream can meld together. You can wrap the cake up in plastic wrap in the refrigerator to keep the cake from drying out.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871454721044060854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9116471407777746617.post-72824568056642585222016-03-23T20:18:00.002-05:002016-03-23T20:18:50.810-05:00Oatmeal Cookie-Topped BrowniesOn an Alabama "snow day," meaning it might possibly snow and so everyone goes home, I'm attempting to do my job from my couch in PJ pants late on a Friday afternoon, and all I can think about is baking warm and cozy chocolate something. I'm thinking brownies, I'm thinking cookies, I'm thinking... brownie cookies.<br />
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<br />Soon I move a room over to delve into my ridiculous stash of chocolate chips and butter, whip these guys up and tote them down the street ready-to-bake for a super girly night with the March girls. (Side note: If you are female and haven't read or watched <i>Little Women</i>, it will make you feel almost as warm and cozy as this oatmeal cookie-brownie combo.)<br />
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1 stick butter, softened</div>
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½ cup brown sugar</div>
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1/4 granulated sugar</div>
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1 egg</div>
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1 tsp. vanilla</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871454721044060854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9116471407777746617.post-15003680841515702202016-01-22T17:57:00.000-06:002016-11-20T11:45:55.437-06:00Apple-Cranberry Baked OatmealEvery time I go, I wonder why it's taken me so long to come back. And sometimes that's just five days. The serenity of the lake puts my soul at ease and creates spaces for quality time like none other.<br />
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So far, baked oatmeal has a similar track record.<br />
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My newest version is packed with cold-weather season flavors and textures. Apples and cranberries add sweet-tartness, pecans a nutty crunch and orange zest a refreshing citrusy flair throughout. So wondrous was the influence of the zest that I was compelled to invest in the house's very own zester. (Yes, quality kitchen tools really are quite exciting.)<br />
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Bonus: Because winter masqueraded as spring for so long, we enjoyed our oats on the deck that boasts my favorite view. <br />
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<b> </b>The next time I was lake-bound, I brought my zester and vowed to come back sooner. <br />
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<b>More Baked Oatmeal: </b><a href="http://maplemacaroni.blogspot.com/2011/02/real-oatmeal-two-ways.html#more" target="_blank">The Strawberry Kind</a><br />
<b>Even More Grainy Breakfast Delight:</b> <a href="http://www.theclevercarrot.com/2015/05/wholegrain-strawberry-breakfast-cake/" target="_blank">Whole Grain Strawberry Breakfast Cake</a><br />
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3 cups regular oats (not quick-cooking)<br />
2 tsp. baking powder<br />
1/2 tsp. salt<br />
1/2 tsp. cinnamon<br />
2 cups milk<br />
2 eggs, beaten<br />
2/3 cup plain applesauce<br />
1/2 cup brown sugar<br />
Zest of 1 orange<br />
1 green apple, cored and diced<br />
1/2 cup dried cranberries<br />
1/2 cup chopped pecans<br />Vanilla or honey-flavored yogurt (optional)<br />
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Preheat oven to 400. In a large bowl, stir together oats, baking powder,
salt and cinnamon; set aside. In a medium bowl, combine milk, egg,
applesauce, brown sugar and orange zest. Add to mixture and stir until
combined. Stir in apple pieces, dried cranberries and pecans. Pour into a greased baking dish.<br />
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Bake uncovered for 20
minutes. Stir mixture. Bake uncovered for an
additional 20 minutes, until lightly browned. Spoon into bowls and serve
with yogurt if you like. Garnish with extra cranberries if desired.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871454721044060854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9116471407777746617.post-11569311034561949752015-11-22T19:41:00.003-06:002016-01-22T18:07:48.788-06:00Chocolate Cake Parfaits (All from Scratch, Of Course)It started with a tragically cracked cake layer. But it's okay. I fixed it by burying it in pieces under homemade chocolate pudding. And homemade pudding elevates the status of anything by 409 percent, make that 1,409 percent when it's also layered with Kahlua whipped cream.<br />
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And who needs a three layer cake when you can have a two layer one and <i>then</i> parfaits for your next party that week? Right? Right.<br />
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It turned out to be such a pretty little thing in a tea cup, thanks to the genius of my roommate. She not only shares her growing teacup collection but also had the idea for the cracked cake redemption. And she assembled these creamy party pleasers with me late at night, and that's just one part of her dinner party partner skill set. <br />
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Oh, and I must give credit to my <i>other</i> roommate for use of her glasses when we ran out of teacups. Yes, they have cats on them. No, I am not a fan of cats. Yes, I did it any way because they were like large Seasons 52 dessert glasses. Finally, my third (yes, third) roommate gets credit for affirming the supremacy of the taste and presentation of both forms of parfait.<br />
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<i>Note:</i> Layering creamy things in tall, skinny glasses is more challenging than short, squatty tea cups.<br />
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Homemade Chocolate Cake+Homemade Chocolate Pudding+Kahlua Whipped Cream even wowed my favorite sugar cookie-over-chocolate chip cookie-choosing friend (what kind of taste is that?). She even took a second one home. It also puts to shame all those brownie trifles I made with instant pudding and Cool Whip before I became such a homemade snob.<br />
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Oh, and you could sub in brownies or cookie crumbs for the cake on this recipe. I first made them with Chocolate Chip Cookie pieces because that's what I had leftover. <br />
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2 cups whipping cream<br />
1-3 Tablespoons white sugar<br />
2 Tablespoons Kahlua 1 layer of a three layer chocolate cake (<a href="http://maplemacaroni.blogspot.com/2011/01/chocolate-peanut-butter-cake.html" target="_blank">this</a> is my favorite)<br />
1 recipe Chocolate Pudding (I used <a href="https://www.hersheys.com/recipes/en_US/recipes/2804/quick_creamy_chocolate_pudding.html" target="_blank">Hershey's recipe</a>)<br />
Mini chocolate chips, for garnish<br />
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Place whipping cream in a bowl and beat with an electric mixer until peaks form. Mix in sugar and Kahlua.<br />
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Break cake into small pieces. In each parfait dish (or tea cup or glass), layer cake crumbs, then pudding, then whipped cream. Repeat layers (cake-pudding-whipped cream). Sprinkle mini chocolate chips on top to make it look prettier.<br />
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Refrigerate parfaits until you are ready to serve them. I like to allow several hours for their flavors to meld in the fridge.<br />
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<i>Yield:</i> About 12 parfaitsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871454721044060854noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9116471407777746617.post-48620606254672011612015-08-06T21:07:00.002-05:002015-08-06T21:07:36.876-05:00Greek Layer DipFor way too long I thought there were two kinds of appetizers: 1. decadent, delicious ones and 2. less-than-exciting healthy ones, generally a veggie tray.<br />
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And then I discovered hummus. And <i>then </i>I discovered fancified hummus as inspired by 1990s Seven Layer Mexican Dip. Suddenly, there was a new category called Maybe Veggies Can Meet A Bit of Decadence.<br />
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Really this is all you need to know: Hummus. Simplified Tzatziki Sauce. Cucumber. Tomato. Black Olives. AND Feta.<br />
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It's a really refreshing way to transition in between lake time and dinnertime in Alabama summertime humidity.<br />
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1 cup Greek Yogurt<br />
1 tsp. Dill (dried or fresh)<br />
1 tsp. Garlic Powder<br />
8 oz. Hummus<br />
1 cup Cucumber, chopped<br />
1 cup Tomato, chopped<br />
1/4 cup sliced Black Olives<br />
1/4 cup crumbled Feta Cheese<br />
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In a small bowl, stir together yogurt, dill and garlic. Set aside.<br />
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Spread hummus in the bottom of an 8-by-8-inch glass dish or other size to your liking. Spread yogurt mixture on top of hummus. Sprinkle remaining ingredients on top. You can adjust the measurements to your liking.<br />
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Serve with pita chips. This dip is best if you serve it the day you make it; the yogurt can get a little watery after Day One but it still tastes good. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871454721044060854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9116471407777746617.post-18028332157785677352015-07-26T12:50:00.000-05:002015-07-26T14:05:27.722-05:00Summer Gratitude: 2015 Edition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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For grilled summer goodness salads, friends to enjoy them and sunsets to round out the perfection.<br />
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For the height of berry season and a <a href="http://maplemacaroni.blogspot.com/search?q=berry+trifle" target="_blank">celebratory Amaretto-and-cream-laden trifle worth repeating every year</a>.<br />
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For composting reward system success.<br />
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For the Saturday night meal for two (or three or four) I have perfected, this time in one pan to-go.<br />
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For the best time in life to buy kitchen accessories for friends. <br />
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For coworkers awesome enough for me to want to create tedious chocolate chip typography on the <a href="http://maplemacaroni.blogspot.com/2013/09/chocolate-buttercream-cupcakes.html" target="_blank">best cupcakes ever</a>. <br />
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For post-kitchen clean-out satisfaction that comes with the bitter-sweet of house transitions.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871454721044060854noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9116471407777746617.post-86020612613807037242015-05-28T21:02:00.000-05:002015-05-28T21:06:45.172-05:00A French-Inspired Meal, A Better-than-Bachlorette-Inspired WeekendOn Friday night we went to Paris. The occasion? Bachelorette does not describe it, although we were celebrating a bride-to-be. There was no gaudy outfitting and masquerading around town. We simply ate our way through her favorite places without leaving the most peaceful party house in the woods there is.<br />
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We started with fancy cheese and a French red.<br />
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(The next night our resident charcuterie artist worked her magic in Italy, but it was so pretty I had to put it here amidst France.)<br />
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This was our menu for the weekend. From Paris we went to the bride's breakfast room for <a href="http://maplemacaroni.blogspot.com/2015/05/out-of-this-world-waffles.html#more" target="_blank">waffles</a> and cheddar cheese (yep, you heard me right) and then to our beloved city for chicken salad and the best fresh whole wheat bread and hummus, plus <a href="http://maplemacaroni.blogspot.com/2012/07/caramel-brownies.html" target="_blank">Caramel Brownies</a>. And then off to Italy for a <a href="http://www.giuseppescafe.com/" target="_blank">Guiseppe's</a>-inspired Vegetable Penne with <a href="http://www.emilybites.com/2013/03/mediterranean-pasta-in-a-creamy-feta-sauce.html" target="_blank">Feta Sauce</a> that the bride declared better (and lighter) than its inspiration. We wrapped things up in Cajun country with a <a href="http://maplemacaroni.blogspot.com/2014/06/cajun-frittata.html" target="_blank">frittata</a> and these frozen chocolate croissants Trader Joe's sells that rise overnight and taste bakery fresh and therefore had me talking about their wonder nonstop all morning. No menfolk meant we carbed and veggied and desserted things up like crazy.<br />
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Anyway, back to Paris. We simplified a <a href="http://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Rte-7-Salade-Nicoise" target="_blank">Salad Nicoise</a>, which some research revealed involves placing veggies in different sections of a platter and drizzling dressing on top. We skipped the anchovies, and the tuna, and wintry veggies that would have to be boiled (potatoes and beets). And that was all we needed because our protein and carbs came from...<br />
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<a href="http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/chicken-crepes-with-asparagus-and-mushrooms-105117" target="_blank">Housemade crepes filled with a chicken-asparagus-cream sauce mixture</a> and topped with more of the same, only prettier. I mastered <a href="http://maplemacaroni.blogspot.com/2015/02/crepe-bar.html" target="_blank">sweet crepes</a> a while back, so I wasn't too scared to try this savory variety with my trusty nonstick pan. Ahhhmazingly delicious it was.<br />
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And now for the crown jewel that proved the bride has the best kind of friends because they all scraped and even licked their ramekins. <a href="http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/chocolate-pots-de-creme-104100" target="_blank">Pots de Creme</a>, y'all. It's a little high maintenance with the individual portions that must be bathed and baked for forever and individually covered and THEN chilled in the fridge (or the freezer to speed things up). But the decadence of chilled chocolate custard that emerged had us all only talking about its amazingness during the duration of this course. It's kind of like a chocolate creme brulee without the torched top. Cut the richness with a dollop of freshly whipped cream and not one but three strawberries slices (thanks to Helen the hand model), and you will never eat dessert out again. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871454721044060854noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9116471407777746617.post-76581644035078067462015-05-05T17:39:00.003-05:002015-05-05T17:39:29.454-05:00Out-of-this-World Waffles<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">These gridded pastries are so light and fluffy delicious that I often travel with a waffle iron so I can share them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">My brother consumes more cereal than anyone I know, so when I visit, I find it necessary to deviate from the breakfast norm, heat up the iron to fill with a flour-milk-oil combo and watch these babes rise to life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">The older I get, the more I firmly <span style="font-size: small;">I believe that</span> each bite of waffle really necessitates a juicy bite of berry along<span style="font-size: small;">side it</span>. This also gives me an excuse to bring fruit that needs washing and slicing (vs. apples and bananas) into the apartment. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">In addition to trips to apartment of said brother, this year Out-of-this-World made their Downton party debut alongside a bar of bananas, berries, whipped cream and chocolate syrup, and ever since I have been craving waffle dessert decadence. </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871454721044060854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9116471407777746617.post-59489317863173841632015-02-15T22:20:00.001-06:002015-02-15T22:20:55.095-06:00Banana PancakesBefore Jack Johnson decided to sleep in and pretend like it's the weekend, banana pancakes entered the scene of my [breakfast] life. Twenty years later, I blame the October 1995 <i>Cooking Light</i> that still sits on my mom's cookbook shelf for making me think most <i>other</i> pancakes taste like cardboard.<br />
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These cakes are creamy and more banana-y than their bread cousins. More than most recipes I post on this blog, they have also stood the test of time and made more visits to my skillet than anything except scrambled eggs.<br />
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If you got brownin' bananas, consider smashing them up and pretending it's the weekend now. <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871454721044060854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9116471407777746617.post-50286573672166272542015-02-02T21:10:00.002-06:002015-02-02T21:23:30.934-06:00Crepe BarIf ever anything were worth savoring, it was this.<br />
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The barely sweet confection known is the crepe is the fresh-off-the-press tortilla of all things French and lightly decadent. Swirling its batter in a pan before it, poof, instantly cooks into a delicate final product, time and time again, is a therapeutic exercise, albeit one that requires all hands on deck. It's way worth it though, especially if you munch on crepe scraps while you go. <br />
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The whole spread of nuts, fruits and creamy spreads was beautiful to my taste buds, but what I found myself salivating over weeks later was the number one star: Nutella Mousse. Yes, Nutella Mousse, hazlenut-chocolate spread in creamy form. Spread it on a crepe, sprinkle on some strawberries and wrap it up with a chocolate drizzle on top, and you may never crave anything else again. It even transported one person back to Europe, she said.<br />
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<i>Warning:</i> If Nutella Mousse miraculously survives its debut and ends up in your fridge, it will quickly and frequently escape for you to violently tear off strips of leftover crepes to dip into it and unite with your tongue.<br />
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A spread such as this is perhaps best enjoyed with amongst female company. I often ooh and ahh (literally) over what I taste, but it's rare that other people have equally as expressive reactions like crepes elicit. So epic was this spread that I served it twice in one day, first for breakfast for the ladies in my new home group from church and second for our weekly Sunday evening <i>Downton Abbey </i>watching/face stuff gathering. A crepe bar would also be fun for a shower of some sort.<br />
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<i>Side note: </i>Extra Raspberry Syrup and Chocolate Syrup make excellent excuses to make cheesecakes and waffle bars, and might up your hot chocolate intake. Be forewarned in that realm too.<br />
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Brown Butter Crepes (recipe below)</div>
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Whipped Cream</div>
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Sliced Strawberries</div>
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Sliced Bananas</div>
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Sliced Almonds</div>
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Powdered Sugar</div>
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<a href="http://jamiecooksitup.net/2013/07/homemade-raspberry-syrup/" target="_blank">Raspberry Syrup</a></div>
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Adapted from <a href="http://smittenkitchen.com/" target="_blank">Smitten Kitchen </a><br />
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6 Tbsp. butter<br />
2 1/3 cups milk (I used skim, but any kind should work.)<br />
6 large eggs<br />
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour<br />
1/8 tsp. salt<br />
1/2 cup granulated sugar <br />
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Place butter in a small saucepan and place over medium-high heat. Once the butter has melted, reduce the heat to medium low and let it continue to simmer, stirring frequently. Eventually the butter will start to brown and smell wondrously nutty. At this point, remove the butter from the heat and let it cool to room temperature. Be careful not to let it burn.<br />
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Preheat a 9-inch skillet on medium-high heat. If you are not using a nonstick pan (my ceramic pan worked fine without grease), spread melted butter or oil in your pan. Measure 1/4 cup of crepe batter and pour it into the pan. Immediately lift up the pan an rotate it around it so that the batter spreads out evenly in the pan. Let it cook until the top is set, about two minutes. Using a spatula, cautiously flip the crepe over. Let the other side cook 5 to 10 seconds and then remove it from the pan. Repeat the process until you have used all the batter.<br />
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I didn't want to do anything fancy for New Year's Eve, but my pepper jelly did. </div>
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Voila, savory cheesecake. </div>
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It's almost as good as the Crabmeat Cheesecake that won me over at Primeaux Cheese & Vino at The Summit (which has a talented chef who seems much older than his 23 years (yes, 23) per my<a href="http://280living.com/businesses/constant-creative/" target="_blank"> interview for a profile on him for <i>280 Living</i></a>).</div>
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And the creamy party starter used up my supply of chesse, a find specialty similar to cheddar with an exclusive "chesse" Sharpie-written label from our work holiday party caterer.</div>
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P.S. It only took me FIVE months, but I am back to blogging in 2015. I am writing this as an accountability tool going forward.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871454721044060854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9116471407777746617.post-36967490294302522752014-07-28T22:17:00.000-05:002014-07-28T22:25:29.928-05:00Summer Gratitude: 2014 EditionLately I have been grateful...<br />
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For excesses of food, and a family that breeds them<br />
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For heaven in the form of fruit growing in Chilton County, the wonder of a liquid that transforms into its perfect creamy complement and that not all dairy has 0 percent fat</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871454721044060854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9116471407777746617.post-60678359076153482512014-06-10T22:51:00.001-05:002014-06-12T14:27:24.179-05:00Cajun FrittataSome people welcome friends into their arms with heartfelt hugs. I am not one of them. I will reciprocate hugs, preferably side ones, but I might be the world's most awkward hugger. It just doesn't say love to me.<br />
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Instead, when a friend is stressed, I want to love on her (or him) by preparing edible comfort. When big deal things happen in others' lives, I find myself crafting something tasty. That's how I roll.<br />
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And that is how I found myself toting frittata ingredients to an old white house in small town, Alabama.<br />
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Because, of course, when a bride requests you make a frittata on her wedding morning, you prechop onions, pepper and Conecuh sausage, you preshred you some Monterey jack cheese, and you throw your dishes and your eggs and your olive oil in a bag and take them with you.<br />
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And as you relish those moments leading up to the BIG moment, that only-happens-once time that is so precious when spent with close friends, you get those close ones well-nourished in a way that says "this is my hug." And also you put flowers in your hair.<br />
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You get bonus point if clearing-rain morning light streams into your kitchen for photo opps, even if the lighting in your steaming skillet shot isn't the greatest.<br />
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Olive oil, to taste<br />
1/2 large (or 1 small) sweet onion, chopped<br />
1 bell pepper, chopped<br />
8 oz. andouille sausage, cut into bite-sized peices<br />
Chili powder, to taste<br />
Paprika, to taste<br />
Garlic powder, to taste <br />
1/2 cup shredded Monterey jack cheese<br />
9 eggs<br />
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Preheat broiler.<br />
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Warm olive oil in a large oven-proof skillet. Add onion through garlic powder, and saute until veggies and tender and sausage is cooked. Meanwhile, crack and beat your eggs. When veggies and meat are to desired doneness, sprinkle the cheese on top of them and then pour the eggs on top. Let the eggs start cooking, using a spatula to lift up the edges fairly often.<br />
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Once the bottom of the frittata appears that the eggs have cooked, place the skillet in the broiler. Cook for a few minutes or until the eggs have set on top and the edges are starting to barn.<br />
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Slide the frittata onto a plate and slice to serve.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871454721044060854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9116471407777746617.post-64547228300257394612014-05-11T13:59:00.001-05:002014-07-29T14:34:19.743-05:00Chocolate Cream ComfortFriday afternoon I returned home to a mildly chaotic sea of flowers. It was wedding eve for my horticulturist of a roommate, and the clock was ticking for team wedding to finish arrangements, bouquets and boutineers before the rehearsal. Add to that news of a possibility of rain for an outdoor ceremony and that the photographer could be stuck in New York for the ceremony, and yeah, the state of the flowers was indicative of the mood in the space.<br />
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Enter pie.<br />
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Before I stepped into help with direct wedding matters, I went to the fridge to pull out the previous night's treasure, <a href="http://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Chocolate-Cream-Pie" target="_blank"><i>Saveur</i>'s wonder of a chocolate cream pie recipe</a>, encased in an Oreo crust and topped with real-deal whipping cream.<br />
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It was what the bride, remembering its <a href="http://maplemacaroni.blogspot.com/2013/08/chocolate-cream-pie-squares-with-oreo.html" target="_blank">previous iteration as squares</a>, had requested for celebrations in her humble honor. <br />
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Slices of decadence were distributed, chocolate was consumed, florals were completed and a beauty of a wedding ensued.<br />
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I'd like to say that when the seas of my life turn to chaos that I want to turn to a greater, perfect savior, but the truth is I am drawn to seek comfort in the family of chocolate. Cookies, pies, cakes <span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">—</span>
they are what I crave to satiate my desire for still waters.<br />
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Clearly my priorities get mixed up, but thinking of the richness of creamy chocolate reminds me of words a flower party member I had only met the night before told me, "I like that you are the kind of people who pulled out pie in a time like that."<br />
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There's a place for words of greater truth, but there's also a place for wordless love in chocolate form.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871454721044060854noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9116471407777746617.post-51723015827061904382014-04-15T22:04:00.000-05:002014-04-16T13:45:48.653-05:00Carbless, Sugarless Celebration Dinner<i>How to make a super special dinner with as few carbs possible for a super special friend who just so happens to have dietary restraints:</i><br />
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1. Step a bit out of the ordinary meal routine with a formal menu. Bonus points if your florist of a friend gets involved with setting the table.<br />
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2. Plate a simple green salad and serve it before the main course. Revolutionary, right?<br />
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3. Stuff cream cheese into chicken breasts for <a href="http://maplemacaroni.blogspot.com/2010/05/recipe-capos-chicken-diablo.html" target="_blank">Chicken Diablo </a>with <a href="http://food52.com/recipes/1075-pan-roasted-chicken-breast-with-dijon-sauce-and-crispy-pancetta" target="_blank">Mustard Sauce.</a><br />
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4. Bacon. It makes anything better, especially when <a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/rachael-ray/bacon-wrapped-asparagus-bundles-recipe.html" target="_blank">wrapped around something gree</a>n.<br />
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5. Faux carbs a.k.a. cauliflower rolls. It's a real thing. And it tastes pretty good topped with Parmesan.<br />
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6. Whip out a sugar-free berry-lemon jello mold straight from 1975. Do a victory dance if it comes out of your mold in decent form. Warning: do not consume the berries if on sugarless diet. They simple serve as candle holders.<br />
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Verdict: Birthday meal success. Throw in some close friends, tell them to share super special things about the super special birthday girl, and it's pretty much the best thing that could happen to an introvert, at least in the introverted hostess' opinion.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871454721044060854noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9116471407777746617.post-1173675172594140742014-03-26T22:14:00.000-05:002014-03-26T22:14:29.494-05:00Lemony Farro SaladNow that we are exiting soup season, my make-a-dish-I-can-eat-off-of-all-week strategy has shifted to grainy salads. This week's adventure was my first with farro, which is kind of like a thick brown rice. I like how nutty and filling it is, so much so that I wasn't even looking for meat.<br />
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It meets the standards my mom taught me from her college home ec classes (those weren't in our catalog)- variety of texture, color and temperature (only if your farro's still kind of warm and your cheese is cold, but still).<br />
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14 oz. farro, cooked and drained<br />
2 bell peppers, chopped<br />
1 bunch green onions, sliced<br />
2/3 cup shredded carrot (I buy the pre-cut kind from the produce department) <br />
Juice of 1 lemon<br />
1/4 cup olive oil<br />
Greek seasoning, to taste<br />
Salt and pepper, to taste<br />
Feta cheese, crumbled, optional<br />
Arugula, optional<br />
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Toss together all ingredient. Serve at room temperature or cold. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871454721044060854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9116471407777746617.post-1431533189465671202014-03-13T22:14:00.002-05:002014-03-13T22:14:45.571-05:00Strawberry Baked DoughnutsTheory: all things small and cute have a positive correlation to requiring hard work. This applies to puppies. This applies to small children. This applies to miniature sugary delicacies.<br />
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Behold, the product of umpteen batches of light and fruity lil' cakes in my miniature doughnut pan (yep, I ordered one of those once upon a time and finally got around to putting it to use).<br />
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It's fun to fascinate friends who brunch and who don't have doughnut baking pans on their radar with little cakes in a circular shape. For now, I'll make these and let Krispy Kreme do the frying. Amendment: Maybe I'll invest in a regular-sized doughnut pan so I can cut time of tedium and try again.<br />
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<a name='more'></a><b>Recipe: </b><a href="http://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Strawberry-Buttermilk-Fonuts" target="_blank">Strawberry-Buttermilk Fonuts</a>, <i>Savuer</i><br />
*<i>My amendments:</i> Bake 4-6 minutes at 350 degrees. Cut amount of powdered sugar in glaze to make it lighter.<br />
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