granola

Chocolate covered.



*oatmeal 2 Cups
*wheat germ ½ Cup
*pine nuts ⅓ Cup
*pecans ¾ Cup
*butter 1 Tablespoon
*palm sugar ¼
*brown sugar ¼
*molasses ¼
*salt ½ teaspoon
*water 2 Tablespoons

Bake in oven 350℉ for 45 minutes

*couverture chocolate to 120℉ to 84℉ to 89℉ add piece of seed chocolate.

pappardelle with broccoli

Some would call it a kind of maltagliati (literally, poorly cut) because they're not so perfect. Hand cut, with a knife, and with my hands, and then painstaking unrolled individually. They have a tendency to stick while unrolling even though you take steps to prevent that. It still happens. Can you imagine unrolling your noodles one at a time? There has to be a better way, like vigorously toss them in a bowl with flour or something.

Broccolli chopped into little itty bitty bits. Sauteed in butter/olive oil with garlic and onion. Tossed with 1 metric ton of basil and an entire wheel of parmigiano reggiano. ← last sentence possible exaggeration beyond customary 12% for dramatic effect.

fish and chips

Batter
1 egg
1/3 teaspoon baking powder
1 Tablespoon corn starch
1 Tablespoon rice flour
2 Tablespoons ap flour
3/4 C milk
1/2 teaspoon Vindaloo curry
S & P

Vegetable oil steady at 350℉ (which means run it up to 375℉ before starting

Large potato microwaved to 95% done cut in broad wedges. Dropped in oil for dehydration frying.

ziti pasta

Made these noodles with Bosch mixer.
Set mixer on side, attach the sausage maker fitted with pasta shape implement. Extrusion. It's fun.

Cooked chicken breast and broccoli in butter / olive oil sauce.

Sourdough sandwich

Sourdough bread. Yeast culture cultivated from the grain out of the bins at Whole Foods. And, boy, is it ever good. Check out the crumb on that stuff. Nice and open, just like the pros. Click on it and LOOK I said! I aimed it so you could see. Plus cream cheese. Home-made pickled vegetables. Imported olives (variety). One of those olives had two seeds in it !!!! Which hast to be a first in history.

potato pancake

Here's what I did recipelessly.

Ran cooked potatoes through a ricer using the disc with BIG holes. --> into the same pot the potatoes were cooked in but presently holding:
* diced onion
* crushed garlic
* the riced (that means squished through a thing resembling a giant garlic press) potatoes back into that pot.
* grated cheese
* diced olives
* chopped sage and parsley
* couple of eggs
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* heat a skillet and add some olive oil
* drop a large spoonful of potato/cheese/egg/everything else mixture into skillet
*smash into the shape of a hamburger patty.
* saute on both sides

brown rice

Rice cooked with a tad of sugar and vinegar plus about 1/4 teaspoon of curry.
25 minutes on low, 10 minutes off the heat. Double the amount of water to rice. It didn't absorb all the water. A little longer wouldn't have hurt. Added rice to sauteed vegetables.

Broccoli and purple cabbage sauted for 5 minutes, finished with a splash of wine. Added rice, dried it in the saute pan. Added shredded Parmigiano Reggiano off the heat.

+shredded sage.

I got this rice out of the bins at Whole foods. They had like six different kinds. It was a tough decision. I opted for brown short grain.