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Favorite foods: Ikura and unagi sushi (not together..but hey, why not), pumpernickel bagels with lox and chive cream cheese, anchovies, artichoke hearts, my mom's recipe for easy chicken Stroganoff, any form of roast, and Goya Adobo!

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From Talk

Your go-to summer party dish

From Required Eating

Cook the Book: Lidia's Italy

When I'm cooking breakfast to impress, I make French toast - potato bread, cinnamon and vanilla extract in the batter, and Vermont maple syrup on top.

Dinner - Roast beef, baked potatoes done perfectly, and usually steamed broccoli. For dessert I like to make something warm with fruit - compote, maybe, or an easy cobbler, all served with homemade whipped cream.

From Talk

Serious Bakers... I need your best BUNDT CAKE recipe...

This recipe came over with my grandparents from Berlin in the 30s. It's been my dad's birthday cake all his life, and I'm proud to have taken up the tradition after my grandmother died. It's not terribly moist, but it is a dense, delicious marble pound cake. I generally forego the cocoa/water slurry in favor of 3 or 4 melted and cooled squares of baking chocolate.

1 package Oetker baking powder
(or enough for 4 cups flour)
4 cups unsifted flour
1 cup milk (lowfat OK)
2 cups white granulated sugar
6 medium or 5 large eggs, separated
½ pound unsalted butter
¼ tsp dried lemon peel
¼ tsp lemon extract or 1 tsp lemon juice
¼ cup baking cocoa
3 tbsp tap water
butter for greasing bundt pan
breadcrumbs for bundt pan

Preheat oven to 300 degrees Fahrenheit.

Separate the eggs 2 hours before baking starts. Bring milk and butter to room temperature. Grease and crumb pan to 2/3 its height.

Sift flour together with baking powder.

Cream butter in large bowl for 10 minutes with mixer. Should show bubbles. Add egg yolks one at a time, along with small quantities of milk, flour, sugar, and lemon peel. Mix each portion for 3 minutes with mixer before adding next portion. Add lemon extract with last portion.

Beat egg whites to dry peaks. Fold into batter carefully. Divide dough in half. Mix cocoa with water into a paste and mix paste into half of the batter.

Fill bundt pan with alternating globs of batter. Bake for 65 minutes. Test with toothpick halfway between center and rim. If clean, remove If not, bake for another 5 or 10 minutes and try again. Remove from oven and cool on wire rack in pan. When cake is cool to the touch turn form upside down and remove cake from pan by tapping on bottom and sides. Top with confectioners sugar.

From Talk

I finally got it....the Cook's Illustrated Recipe to test!

Kerosena, your comment absolutely killed me. :D

From Required Eating

How Do You Nacho?

Love the Homesick Texan. All her recipes look so good!

From Talk

Would you rather give up eggs or cereal?

I gave up cereal 6 years ago. I do miss it, but mostly as a dinner option when I'm too tired to cook after work.

Eggs, however, I adore and eat every day. :D

From Required Eating

Ed Levine's Serious Diet: Week 2

Bauwau2u said, "Many of us never stop eating long enough to feel hungry..."

How true. I've had to learn how to let myself be hungry. It's one of the hardest things I've done. You can do it, too!

From Talk

I eat ____ with cottage cheese

Avocado. Sounds gross but is delicious.

From Talk

Pimento cheese...what's your best recipe?

From Talk

Pimento cheese...what's your best recipe?

The Homesick Texan has a recipe here.
(all the way at the bottom)

HTH.

Responses to Comments by AdamH

From Talk

Your go-to summer party dish

I make ramen cabbage salad all summer long, but i'm in AZ so that's really not true, I make it all of the time.

Cabbage shredded
a bunch of green onions sliced

Dressing: 1 or 2 packets of beef ramen seasoning
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup oil
1/3 cup vinegar
salt/pepper
(sometimes I add minced garlic)

shake dressing in a jar, pour over cabbage and green onions, and top with the crushed up dry ramen noodles and almonds and/or sunflower seeds.

It's a really good base for a salad- sometimes i'll add carrots or chunked up chicken, and sometimes i'll use flavored almonds. Anything goes!

From Talk

Your go-to summer party dish

@Cary - you could always just do fresh pico with loads of lime juice (a necessity anyways with pico) and let the lime juice chemically cook the shrimp and scallops - ceviche salsa!


grilled pinapple is an easy crowd pleaser and very simple since we usually have the grill fired up anyways.

From Talk

Your go-to summer party dish

Last night I saw Robert Reignford make kabobs with:

Foccacia (cubed)
Cubed mozza and a basil leaf wrapped in procutto
Cherry tomatoes

He just grilled them for 3 mins each side I think? But wow it looked amazing and seemed easy!

From Talk

Your go-to summer party dish

Broccoli Salad. I swear if I didn't make it - I would get pummeled.

Broccoli, green onions, bacon, raisins, cashews and a sweet mayo sauce... Mmmmmmm!

From Talk

Your go-to summer party dish

Pasta salad of farfalle with pesto and tomatoes, originally from an older Bon Appettit magazine that has not been put on-line, but now located here:

http://www.recipeview.com/view.php?ItemID=227755

Easy, light, fresh and tasty!

From Talk

Your go-to summer party dish

Spam musubi, sake or furikake musubi, potato salad, macaroni salad, shrimp tempura, nishime, teriyaki beef, hulihuli chicken...oh wait, not in Hawaii. :P

I fancy (but wouldn't at every picnic) the couscous served at my cafeteria. Earl Grey couscous with strawberries and mandarin oranges. Sometimes they make it with kiwi instead of strawberries.

From Talk

Your go-to summer party dish

Mexican black bean and corn salad: toss warm ditalini in a dressing of oil, jalapeno, cumin, lime juice, salt and garlic. Let cool, stirring occasionally, then add corn, black beans and cilantro.

From Required Eating

Peanut Butter and Jelly: A Serious Eats Special Report

I keep tellin you guys...Jif, Hellman's, Romaine lettuce on rye. Someone once dared me to try it and I've never been the same.

From Required Eating

Peanut Butter and Jelly: A Serious Eats Special Report

I miss Fluffernutters! It was a college staple of mine.

From Required Eating

Peanut Butter and Jelly: A Serious Eats Special Report

Crunchy PB (preferably all-natural with no hydrogenated oils), sliced banana and honey between slices of seven-grain or whole wheat bread.
Has anyone ever tried/made/know where to purchase peanut butter-banana ice cream?