Cook the Book: 'Chocolate Epiphany'
Peanut butter and chocolate pudding pie, chosen because it's been a while.
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What holiday traditions are still going strong in your family?
I like the popcorn ball party idea! I have a cookie party every year (this will be my 11th annual) in December and make many varieties of cookies to share with my friends, as well as a few other savory and sweet treats. We make and decorate cookies during the party, too.
This grew out of my mom's tradition of having an open house every year since the late seventies, but hers is much bigger and she bakes and freezes items for weeks in advance.
We have a few other food-related holiday traditions, including homemade bread and cinnamon rolls on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. We usually have black-eyed-peas as part of the New Year's Eve or New Year's Day meal, and sometimes sauerkraut and sausages are a part of that meal as well.
Thanksgiving changes a little for me every year, but in childhood the traditional components were mom's sausage dressing, turkey, mashed potatoes, green beans, and canned cranberry "sauce." Now we usually have Susan Stamberg's mother-in-law's horseradish cranberry sauce, mashed sweet potatoes with rum, chestnut dressing, and...still...a turkey.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'The Elements of Cooking'
The most important element in my mind would be a sense of perspective. And this can mean perspective in terms of your flavors and balance, in terms of how the way you cook fits into your lifestyle and schedule, of how different dishes work together in a meal, to having the courage to try new things or to improvise, visual perspective (does depth perception help?!), etc. It's also a useful coping mechanism when something goes wrong!
What 5 unusual things are in your fridge?
I am so disappointed. The weirdest things in my fridge are not weird.
1. Hot peach chutney
2. Penzeys' "Raspberry Enlightenment" (not weird, but the bottle is kind of embarassing)
3. red "green tomato relish"
4. very old cupcake icing
5. pickled beets
Describe yourself in a three course meal.
Ooh. I'm not making a very gourmet impression if I'm honest with myself.
1. Cornichons and assorted cheeses
2. Nigel Slater's method of roasted chicken, mashed potatoes with lots of garlic and bacon with a little bit of chicken gravy, asparagus and homemade bread.
3. Sweet, fried plantains AND a small peanut butter brownie.
Beverage: milk!
Food grinder: uses?
My grandfather used his to make green tomato relish and my mom used hers for baby food...
Cook the Book: 'How to Cook Everything Vegetarian' Book Giveaway
My favorite veggie recipe is sweet potatoes topped with homemade (vegetarian) black bean chili. It can be as simple or complex as you want to make it, but the flavors go well together and it's very filling.
Mashed Potato technique. How do you mash your taters?
Rats. A typo. I meant "they exert," rather than "the exert."
Mashed Potato technique. How do you mash your taters?
I seem to remember seeing Alton Brown explain something about ricers being perfect because the exert even pressure on the cells of the potatoes (meaning, in part, that your potatoes are less likely to go gummy) and that it's the superior tool...but I don't own a ricer, so I use a manual masher and overwork the cells of my potatoes! ;)
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Cook the Book: 'Chocolate Epiphany'
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Cook the Book: 'Chocolate Epiphany'
though it is painful to even consider a lifetime without chocolate....
My last taste would be the Chocolate Tuxedo Cream Cheesecake at the Cheesecake Factory.
Cook the Book: 'Chocolate Epiphany'
If I could only have chocolate one more time in my life, it would be chocolate truffles. They are to die for!!
Cook the Book: 'Chocolate Epiphany'
A big plate of freshly baked brownies. It's the simple things...
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