Category Archives: Recipes

Baked Egg Puffs

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yum

This starts with the recipe in the book: Deceptively Delicious, but goes a bit sideways from there. I’m a bit lazy, and Mike was a bit bored with the original.

Mine is on the left in the photo. Ingredients: 2 eggs, 1 TBL flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 2 heaping spoonfuls of squash puree, a handful of shredded cheddar cheese, and 1 TBL of shredded parmesan cheese.

Mike’s Ingredients: 2 eggs, 1 TBL flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 2 heaping spoonfuls of squash puree, 2 TBL shredded cheddar cheese, and 1 TBL of shredded parmesan cheese. AND chopped mushrooms (small chunks, they float), sun-dried tomatoes, capers, and italian spices, hungarian paprika (smokey).

Directions: Preheat oven to 400. Grease the baking dishes (10 oz ramikins pictured). Mix all ingredients in a different bowl, then pour into the baking dish. Bake for 25 mins (convection) – 30 mins (regular).

Delicious!

I highly recommend the book (Deceptively Delicious), it’s got a lot of great recipes.

Czarina

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New Drink Recipe, which is a bit involved.

Step 1: Cut up a watermelon, and juice all the fruit/flesh

Step 2: Mix 1 cup of watermelon juice, 1 cup of lemon juice (we just bought big bottle at Costco here), and 3/8th cup of powdered sugar. Use a whisk to help dissolve the sugar.

Step 3: Pour the mix into the ice cream maker and leave it for 15-20 minutes. The result here is kind of sorbet like. Yummy!

Step 4: Buy a big bottle of cheap vodka, dedicate a Brita pitcher to the filter of said vodka, then run that vodka thru the Brita 3 times. (4th time gains you nothing really, we tested it).

Step 5: Put at least a small bottle of the vodka in the freezer overnight.

Step 6: Making the drink. 1.5 or 2 oz of Vodka (from the freezer), an equal amount of soda water, and at least 4 ice cream scoops (2″ balls) of the sorbet, all into a glass.

Step 7: Enjoy!

Dorian Grey – Cocktail

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We’ve discovered a strange new cocktail this evening.

Equal amounts of sweet vermouth, green chartreuse and gin (.75 oz ea in this case) and a splash of the blood orange bitters. We like this name better than the one it came with, because if you try to describe the taste of this drink, all you can come up with is “It’s complicated”.

bijou cocktail