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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Non-Recipe of the Day: Pork and Green Chile Stew
Pete’s Kitchen was the first place I ever had really good green chile stew. Their breakfast burrito is a rolled up tortilla stuffed with eggs, sausage, potatoes, and cheese, as big as your head, smothered in a spicy green chile … Continue reading
Posted in chiles, Colorado, Mexican, pork, seasonal, soup and stew, southwest
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Let’s Move Challenge: Recipes for Healthy Kids
I’ll write more about this later … but wanted to through out one question first. Let’s Move Challenge: Recipes for Healthy Kids Let’s Move!, in association with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), is challenging school nutrition professionals, chefs, students, … Continue reading
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Zucchini Cornbread
My mom would make cake-like cornbread back in the day. For the life of me I can’t remember with what main dish she would serve it. We were Euro-mutts of a definite haole/gringo variety, so it definitely wasn’t anything southwestern, … Continue reading
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Beans and Rice
The packages were mailed with impeccable timing so as to arrive the day before the holiday, birthday, or special event, or, in the case of a weekend shindig, on the Friday before. The boxes were cut down and refolded so … Continue reading
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A number I can’t get my head around
It is estimated that more than 90% of all mankind, going back to the very beginning, never read a single written word. I’m having trouble processing that. Given the impact that books have had our the events of the world, … Continue reading
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Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cake
Can’t miss fall dessert. 3 cups all-purpose flour2 1/4 cups granulated sugar3/4 cup packed brown sugar1 1/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon1/2 teaspoon ground ginger1/4 teaspoon ground cloves1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda1/2 teaspoon salt12 ounces bittersweet or semisweetchocolate … Continue reading
Posted in baking, dessert, fall
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Improv Blueberry Bars
One of these days, I’ll know what I’m doing. Talking in general terms there, but if you want one specific, you could start with understanding the chemistry of how simple house hold items, like flour and eggs and oils, respond … Continue reading
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I like toast!
Personal opinion, and we’re all entitled to our own preferences … but toast just tastes better when it’s cut in triangles instead of rectangles. Second place is slightly undercooked toast (undertoasted?) that’s folded in half.
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