chocolate cookies

In search of the perfect coffee-dunking cookie.

But this isn't it.  Too soft.  Breaks apart too easily and waaaaaay too much cocoa.

Although, they're delicious,  I'll give 'em that. 

sautéed vegetables

Finished with duck broth
and cornstarch slurry.
It was exactly like the sort of thing served over rice in Chinese restaurants only better and without the rice.

chicken soup

Chicken breast, cooked and torn
Pasta with curry rolled into it, made yesterday held in refrigerator cut today
ginger / garlic
broccoli
red and orange pepper
mushrooms
parmigiano reggiano
basil

Toast -- Denver sourdough

On collecting the sourdough culture for this bread; this must have been something like the 20th time I've collected airborne sourdough cultures and I've been surprised many times but this was most surprising experiment of all. An emailer challenged that the live organisms being cultivated were already present on the flour and persons and things involved in the experiment so the actual collection is minimized in importance and the result not precisely native. In order to disprove hitch-hiking organisms, I must sterilize the collecting sample first. Plus a control, for comparison, would be a good idea. The collection experiment is recorded in November titled bread 2, here.

fettucini pesto late snack

That looks like a huge pile on a plate but it's actually a saucer.

Half a batch of pasta made with one egg. The other half saved.

spaghetti

duck miso

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