In honor of the last non-sports weekend of 2007, and belatedly in honor of Sid’s birthday, and inspired by Sid’s clothing line, we bring you… the I [Heart] Crosby cake! This was Pookie’s brainchild, as she was most eager to see how the kitchen could handle cake baking. We made the Cook’s Illustrated [...]
In taking the advice of the Delphic Oracle, I have come to a comfortable recognition of my limitations as a cook. Perhaps the most severe of those limitations is that I am incredibly lazy. I am a one-pot kind of gal, and it would be fair to say that 99.9% of the meals [...]
I used to enjoy baking cookies occasionally, maybe three or four times a year. Since the new kitchen, though, I feel like making cookies all the time. My new favorite recipe is Mexican Chocolate Cookies, a recipe Schnookie found online. A few years ago she had a recipe for Chocolate Pepper Snaps [...]
Chili
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Considering the vast quantities of chili powder I like to make, it should come as no surprise that I make vast quantities of chili. This is IPB Manor’s weekly standard, in part because it’s delicious and uses up a lot of [...]
Six Million Dollar Lemonade
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When buying the prosecco for the Bellinis, the gentleman at the wine store gave us a delightful run-down of the wine itself in his comically attractive French accent. When he finished we all nodded and said, “Great! [...]
Chili Powder Components
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Chili Powder!
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We are creatures of habit at stately IPB Manor, and one of our regular meals is chili. Once a week I make up a huge-assed [...]
Bellinis
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Today was one of those picture-perfect summer days, sunny, dry, hot but not scorching… It almost made me not hate the season as a whole, but the absence of hockey on television quickly reminded us why summer sucks. However, I [...]
BLTs
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Tonight’s dinner was an orgy of freshness, and we were able to pretend it was mostly free because the majority of the components came from the farm. I made a warm potato salad with the farm’s red blisses and a mustard, [...]
Heirloom Tomatoes
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It must be August here, because when I walked out of the farm this week I had probably 30 pounds of produce with me, including 18 glorious pounds of tomatoes. In the course of the summer we get cherry tomatoes, [...]
This weekend the training wheels came off. With the floor sealed, the sink up and running, the appliances in, it was time to let rip. And let rip I did! Saturday I tested the limits of my vegetable attention span by tackling a bit of my farm share, and gorged myself on [...]
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