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Tofu con Higos, Achiote Rice, Roasted Cauliflower

Dinner 3/06 Tofu con Higos (tofu braised with figs) Achiote Rice Roasted Cauliflower More TV cooking tonight, this time a veganized Daisy Martinez set of recipes. The braised fig recipe starts off very French with the brown sauce recipe (subbing made hickory-smoked tempeh bacon and veg stock) and a shot of cognac to deglaze the pan. The tofu was also hickory-smoked, pan-fried and thrown into the sauce at the last minute rather than spending an hour in the liquid. That’s because the tofu gets very soggy from braising which doesn’t really work as a texture for cutlets. Surprisingly, the smoked tempeh cubes hold together in the sauce pretty well. The tofu and fig sauce were served over rice, colored with achiote oil and flavored with sofrito, olives and veg stock. The real reason for including this overhead shot is to show off my belated Christmas present from my sister-in-law — a lovely green Bakelite silverware set with an orange chevron motif. Tags: tempeh , tofu , figs , rice , achiote , cauliflower , vegan , food , dinner , tofu666 View post: Tofu con Higos, Achiote Rice, Roasted Cauliflower

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New Frugal Feasts Column Exclusively Today in The Concord Monitor

Photo by Ken Williams for The Concord Monitor You can also read the column over at The Concord Monitor. Who knows, maybe if enough people read it there we could get a raise… Behind Every Book Club So here’s how it started: Suzanne: I think we should do a column on book clubs. We could write about how much fun it is to host, and how much we love getting together with a strong group of women for a glass of wine or three, making a killer dessert and spending the evening in a spirited discussion about a great book. It will be awesome! Robin: Oh sure Suzanne. I’ve never been in a book club; I don’t ever want to be in a book club– in all honesty can’t think of anything worse. Opening my home to a group of women on a random Tuesday night? I have no control over the mass of teenagers wandering about; at any minute one of them could show up freshly showered in nothing but a towel. Not a bath sheet mind you, just a towel. A teeny little towel. Who needs that? And once again, The Fru Gals find themselves on opposite sides …

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Red Velvet Cake

After yesterday’s post , I thought it was only appropriate to follow up with the real thing. No purse this time. This is all cake. Velvety and yes … red. And delicious. And moist. And one of my favorites. It’s covered in cream cheese frosting that’s to die for. Help me. There’s something about a red velvet cake that always makes me feel good inside. And it’s not just the taste. It’s the memories it brings of family and holidays and home. But it doesn’t have to be saved for special occasions. I think it should be loved all year long. Red Velvet Cake 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour 2 cups sugar 1 Tablespoon cocoa 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking soda 2 eggs 1 1/2 cups oil 1 cup buttermilk 1 Tablespoon vinegar 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 oz. red food coloring Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour two 8 inch cake pans. Lightly stir eggs in a medium bowl with a wire whisk. Add remaining liquid ingredients and stir together with whisk until blended. Set aside. Place all the dry ingredients in your mixing bowl and stir together really good with another wire whisk. Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix on medium-…

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Growing Shiitakes

We were part of a White Elephant gift exchange with friends over Christmas, and were thrilled when we unwrapped a Shiitake mushroom growing kit. Immediately, we vocally gushed and then gave the stink eye around the room to anyone who might consider stealing our present. It worked. Having lived for two years in Kennett Square, PA, “the mushroom capital of the world,” and toured a few mushroom growing houses in the area, I’ve always wanted to get a batch of mushrooms going, but it’s been one of those simple and easy indulgences I’ve just never acted on. If you’re an apartment dweller or a city dweller and don’t have a patch of soil to grow vegetables or herbs, this may be the thing to placate the primal urge we all have to grow something edible. It’s so simple. Here we go… Take your mushroom kit (basically a block of spore inoculated substrate) out of the box, and read the directions. The kit you get may have different direction, but below is what happened when we followed the direction with our kit. The block may already be sprouting…

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Something I’ve Never Told You

Here’s something I don’t think I’ve ever told you. A few years ago, I had a ballet studio in our little town. How the whole thing came about was accidental—I took it off the hands of someone who was going to work full-time and could no longer keep it going. The only reason I decided take over the studio (which had only opened the year before) was not because it had been a dream of mine to run a ballet school. I lived 25 minutes from town, after all, and had three small children—oh, and a fourth on the way. I had no business having any dreams. No, I took over the school because I hated to see it close, and because my punk-arse little sister Betsy, who had never given birth and could still rotate her hip joints without fearing the whole pelvis would suddenly detach from the rest of her body, lived relatively close by, had grown up receiving classical ballet training like I had, and had agreed to be the primary instructor at the studio since, at four months pregnant, teaching ballet was the last…

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Pope meets Susanna Maiolo

Pope Benedict met Susanna Maiolo, the woman who pulled him over at Mass on Christmas Eve, on Wednesday.

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C’mon, Feel the Noise

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Three Tiers Contemporary Cakes and Cupcakes, Bellevue, Kentucky

These cute cupcakes are all by Three Tiers Contemporary Cakes and Cupcakes in Bellevue, Kentucky, via their Facebook page (and yes, I know Christmas is over but I’d totally eat a snowball cupcake now). I was intrigued by their status update which said: Three Tiers Contemporary Cakes and Cupcakesis honoring the Girl Scouts by offering a vanilla cupcake covered with caramel buttercream, chocolate sauce, caramel and toasted coconut!! This idea was suggested by a fan of Three Tiers….thanks Jaime!!! Fee free to offer your ideas for cupcakes! Woo-hoo, Girl Scouts! Here’s what that one looks like: Other assorted cupcakes I liked: Bengals cupcake Three Tiers Contemporary Cakes and Cupcakes 321 Fairfield Avenue Bellevue, KY, 41073 859-431-CAKE (2253)

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Here comes the Spotted Dog, although there is another name..

Ooooohhhhh…when the weather outside is frightful and the wood stove is so delightful, consider making yourself a “Spotted Dog” or as some say “Spotted Dick”…dick being an old fashioned English word for pudding!!…as you can see from the title of this post I prefer dog…perhaps because I indeed do have a spotted dog!! SPOTTED DOG RECIPE Ingredients: 6oz/1 1/4 cups unbleached white flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt zest of one lemon (preferably organic) juice of 1/2 lemon 6oz/ 3/4 cup sugar 6oz/ 3/4 cup plump raisins 2oz/ 3/4 cup shredded suet (yes I know in the mincemeat recipe I mentioned how grim it was to shred suet BUT I have to admit I thought it was grim but hadn’t actually done it..I bought some nice suet from Farmers Fare from local cows at Aldermere Farm and tried my hand and found it was somewhat akin to shredding soft candlewax…not gruesome at all really plus I tried one recipe with butter and suet and it came out a lot stodgier…ie dense and a bit too carby and sticky) 2 large eggs whisked together 3 fl oz/1/3 cup whole milk 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract/essence and 1 of cardamom 1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg Before you get going on the recipe you will need to find yourself a…

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Honey Madeleines

Once again, Bourdain takes the blame. ‘England’s best hope for salvation…a warrior, pioneer, philosopher and fearless proponent for what’s good, and what’s always been good, about English cooking.’ High praise indeed. This is his summation of Fergus Henderson as it appears in the ultimate food lover’s bible, A Cook’s Tour – the one book I wish I could have written. Forget Dostoyevsky. Move along Melville. Step aside Shakespeare. Let me travel, eat then write it up in shotgun gonzo style. Yes please. Understandably, the monochrome delight that is Nose to Tail Eating , Henderson’s manifesto/cookbook, soon found its way into my collection swiftly followed by its successor, Beyond Nose to Tail – a similar affair but with an extended section on baking. Those books were read and re-read. Not just the recipes but the snippets of gastro-philosophy that pepper them. The words and oddly exotic lists of ingredients pored over, mused upon and eventually cooked and eaten. The exotic ceased to be so and all that remained was The Tasty. Bourdain’s gushing made sense. Considering my affinity for his work, it took a surprisingly long time to actually eat at Henderson’s London restaurant, St. John. …

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