Picturing Food & Drink!

I found this in the carrot box today at school:




Just wanted to share. Haha.

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I made marinated oven roasted chicken thighs for supper tonight with wild rice and steamed broccoli. My mom ruined her broccoli by dousing it with mayo, but other than that dinner was delicious :)

Purdy's chocolate.

Homemade lemon poppy seed muffins topped with streusel crumble.

Recipe here:

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/apple-crisp-ii/Detail.aspx

We made lentil curry on Saturday afternoon. Lazy afternoons call for lazy cooking! This curry is a basic curry you can eat with rice, not all that much of a hassle to make and it has a lovely mellow taste in spite of all the spice that goes in it . Its mostly lentils, onions, tomatoes, ginger, garlic, coriander, mustard etc



Potato Wedges were the side dish.
( Spicy Wedges )


And Sunday evening saw chocolate cake. We used chocolate compound and since we fail at icing, roast cashews had to do for topping. It tasted great!



Fresh from oven:
( More Cake Pics )

Hope you enjoyed the pics!

Recipe here: http://www.theklutzykitchen.com/2009/11/klutzy-quickie-white-bean-dip.html

it had clams, white wine, pesto and spaghetti pasta. yumyum

For comprehensive recipe click HERE

Sadly, there is no Cafe Du Monde nearby so I had to make my own ( I got the recipe from John Besh's My New Orleans).  I still had some Cafe Du Monde coffee (mmmm chicory) and drank it along with these fried pieces of heaven.

ok so it doesn't look super appetizing, but it was made from a top round roast (the meat melted in your mouth) fresh veggies and amish egg noodles. it was spectacular.

Snagged some sprouts at the market.....




( this way to Brussells )

First post :)~

I went to Alice's Teacup not too long ago and goodness, not only was the decor amazing, the food was just was appealing! If you live in the NYC area, you should definitely take a trip to the restaurant!





( Bigger pics under the cut )

Once you make them yourself you'll never have them any other way!



I followed Martha Stewart's French Fry technique:

http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/french-fries

For those of you who happen to be in Uni. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, the University just gained a wonderful delicious newcomer...



Find out more at 食べ物 eXploZion!

 

Mocha cupcakes with cream cheese icing and a bit of espresso sprinkled on top.

They're delicious.

The Chocolate Flakes Mushi Cake.

I really liked all three cakes, finding them light and delicious, and not too moist or dry.

More photos here.

This weekend saw my boyfriend and I in the kitchen, attempting to ambitiously make some thin crust pizzas.

With tips from Peter Reinhart's The Bread Baking's Apprentice, I'm pretty proud to say we did get our pizza crusts thin and crisp.

For more pictures, tips and recipe for the pizza dough, click here.

We were fortunate enough to be included in the list for Our Awesome Planet's Ultimate Food Taste Test 3.0.


Avocado sansrival. Like Avocado ice-cream, with sansrival bits. Would be perfect ice-cold, I think. Maybe make it like an ice-cream cake?

This being our first taste test event, we didn't know what to expect. We were pleasantly surprised by mouth-watering concoctions, which included the following:

Callos. Various meatloafs. Cookie monster cheesecake. Avocado Sansrival. 3 kinds of lechon. Mangoes and cream cupcakes. Homemade jams (Strawberry mint, Mango ginger, etc.), Yummy flavored teas and jelly drinks from Kimco (guava tea and blackcurrant, among others).
Chocolate-covered bacon. Bacon and potato chowder, clam chowder. Happy cream puffs. Chicago-style popcorn. There are other yummy food items that I wasn't able to taste since at the end we were too full to go on.

( Foodtripping when you're pms-ing is <3 )

Turon is a Filipino dish of a sweet banana centred pastry wrap, deep fried to golden perfection.

 

( More under the cut... )

 

Recipe in Sugarlace.

 

I bought these yummy pastries from a local store during the Chinese Mid-Autumn festival back in September and I am totally in love with these bunny shaped cakes.


(Nippon Ya, Orchard Ion, Singapore)

The spongy chocolate filling in the center is absolutely delicious. It also comes in cheese, green tea and strawberry flavor (which I'm not really a fan of...).

this is my first time making this recipe. it was actually out of a kraft recipe book. it was economical and pretty fabulous :)

i made breakfast this morning. it was pretty delicious, all made fresh.

Here is how much of a dork I am:

Around 3pm I got a tweet from my favorite bar
(what, you don't get tapping tweets? c'mon now. take your beer seriously.)
saying that they had just tapped Founders Breakfast Stout

and I said
"I WANT TO GO TO THERE."

So I changed my dinner plans and headed over and enjoyed two of the stouts, along with a beautiful white bratwurst on pretzel, liver dumpling soup, beer batter fries, and perogies.


The Bavarian Lodge in Lisle, IL. Amazing food and a tap list that will make you cry.

Brioche croissants filled with homemade lemon curd.

The brioche dough makes these so tender and rich which is a perfect contrast to the tart sweetness of the lemon curd.  So good!

Or rather, ginger-not-so-snaps!

My first time making them, and I wanted them to come out soft & chewy in the center, and they did! I was so pleased. :)







Recipe found here, on the Joy of Baking website!

I really was in the mood for wings, but, didn't feel like going shopping.

This was the result



( Some in progress photos and my finished plate after the cut... )

My breakfast this morning.  Made with cream cheese, Old Bay, and a dash of Worcestershire sauce.

Recipe here: http://www.theklutzykitchen.com/2009/11/thanksgiving-part-i-cranberry-orange.html