The Original Recipe: My comments/edits in red Crunchy Barley Salad Recipe By : Jane Brody – Good Food Book Serving Size : 4 Preparation Time :2:00 Categories : Salads Rice & Grains Amount Measure Ingredient — Preparation Method ——– ———— ——————————– 1 2/3 cups chicken broth Use Veggie broth for a vegetarian salad, or water if you don’t have broth. 1 1/3 cups water 1 cup barley Can use Israeli couscous 1 cup green pepper — diced 1 cup carrot — thinly sliced or buy grated ones at the store 1/2 cup red onion — diced 1/2 cup radishes — [...]
Crunchy Barley Salad – the remix
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Jul 082009
Tiramisu –
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Jun 252009
This is a desert that I’ve made more than once 9 egg yolks (extra large or jumbo) 1-3/4 C white sugar 2 C mascarpone cheese 2-3/4 C heavy whipping cream 1 17oz package of Ladyfingers (the dry crunchy style) 1- 1/2 C Brewed strong coffee 1/2 cup Kahlua (add more or less to taste) 1 t vanilla 1 Teaspoons unsweetened cocoa powder, for dusting If you can whip cream in your home you probably have everything, both tools and skills, to make this. It technically calls for a double-boiler but i just use a metal bowl that will sit comfortably [...]
A more real holiday review
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Dec 292008
Like usual for Evan and I the holiday was a marathon. The season, as always, kicked off with my mom’s birthday on the 24th. Family dinner, holiday and b-day presents and the happy mayhem you get with 7 adults and 2 munchkins. Xmas morning Erin and I do the potato latke tango, frying up 20lbs or so of crunchy potato goodness. Then its shower off the grease and spend the day catching up with a pile of family, eating a pile of lox and bagels (and of course latkes), and finally heading home and collapsing into a coma. Friday I [...]
Hearty Yummy Muffins
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Mar 302008
Two of my unpublished (because they are always unpublished – all the easier to cheat) resolutions for this year are to eat better, and to be a bit more fiscally responsible. One little step of this is to change the way we are eating breakfast. Evan and I both tend to purchase a muffin in the morning at the train station. I am not good at doing money breakouts, but I suspect that making them at home is cheaper per piece, and I can guarantee healthier. Like usual I browse the Internet looking for recipes that appeal to me and [...]
As I come down to the wire on Capricon I get to the place I do when I throw my own large parties. How much is the right amount, and how much is not enough. I have a terror of not feeding everyone, not providing enough variety to cover people’s food needs, and not having enough portions to go around. I solve this problem in my own house, by over buying and then just eating the leftovers in the following week. But also I am spending my own money, so if I overspend then I just have to tighten my [...]
