Tag: boil
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How long do you boil corn? A guest blog post by Susannah Lewis
How long should you boil corn? It sounds like a straightforward question, but your answer says a lot about where you grew up and your relationship to corn. Although I grew up in Iowa, where corn is indeed king, I’ve lived in several very different regions of the country as an adult (Rocky Mountains, Pacific…
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Pro-Tip Tuesday: Make Creme Fraiche on the Road!
Looking for a dessert you can bring on the road to impress your friends? Here’s one I made in an AirBnB over a visit to my home state. It takes very few ingredients, little predictability in equipment, and you can bring it with some fruit for a dinner party:
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Kelp Noodle Japchae – Low Carb Noodle-mania!
Okay folks, I admit, I’ve been a little distracted by the glorious Pacific Northwest summer, traipsing about in the mountains. Between that, work, and other personal projects, feeding the Internet Blog Machine has gotten a little backlogged. So without further ado, here’s one more.. Quite some time ago, I went to school in the…
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Wild Rice Soup
Dear Reader, I staged another upo squash battle, so stay tuned for another installment of the upo trials soon. But for now… Here’s a first for the blog: a recipe trial based off a magnet! Specifically this one, which I bought from my home state long ago and always meant to use. With Autumn in full swing,…
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Chicken Adobo
I looked in the fridge, and all we had were drumsticks, an onion, and a bag of frozen pineapple. I had just a little extra time before my spouse would arrive home from his 20 mile bike ride, so, seized with a mild feeling of inspiration, I took a shot at this classic filipino dish…
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Sweet Potato Pesto Pasta
Thanks to Abby for loaning me a spiralizer so I could try it out! Thanks to Fitnessista for this recipe combo, the proportions I made up from my trial. Ingredients: For the pesto: 1/2 cup raw shelled sunflower seeds 1 tsp garlic 1 cup spinach 1 cup (packed) fresh basil leaves 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive…
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Pasta alla Carbonara
I needed to whip up a nice backdrop for an easy but satisfying Sunday night dinner with a treat of seared scallops.* I had turkey bacon and egg on hand, and picked up some bucatini. This one from Nook and Pantry has been sitting at the ‘bottom’ of my Evernote recipe box for a while,…
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Corn & Potato Chowder with Seared Scallops
My friend Jenni, of Lasagna Cupcake fame, expressed a burning desire to find out what I made the other night when I sent her a thank-you photo of my dinner with the single-serving tower of wine she kindly gifted me last month. It was perfect for being able to cook with, and have a few modest…
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Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
…because some things are worth trying again after the first time didn’t quite turn out 10 years ago. Roasted Pumpkin Seeds Source recipes: the first search result off google + Food Network combinations Ingredients: Leftover pumpkin seeds from carving 2 medium-large pumpkins Arbitrary Amounts of… Salt Olive Oil Seasoning combinations (amounts to taste): BBQ: brown…