home made coconut ice cream

Oh yeeeeeeeeeea

classic pizza with awesome-sauce

Pizza is always the right decision for dinner. I'm sure I've posted the dough recipe before, if you want it.

Spicy Vegan Potato Curry

I know, I haven't posted in forever, but..... this stuff is really good and should be up here.
here's the recipe:

4 potatoes, pealed and cubed

2 tablespoons vegetable oil

1 yellow onion, diced

3 cloves garlic, minced

2 teaspoons ground cumin

1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper

4 teaspoons garam masala

1 (1 inch) piece fresh ginger root, peeled and minced

2 teaspoons salt

1 (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes

1 (15 ounce) can garbanzo beans rinsed and drained

1 (15 ounce) can peas, drained

1 (14 ounce) can coconut milk

1. Place potatoes into a large pot and cover with salted water. Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until just tender, about 15 minutes. Drain and allow to steam dry for a minute or two.

2. Meanwhile, heat the vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Stir in the onion and garlic; cook and stir until the onion has softened and turned translucent, about 5 minutes. Season with cumin,k cayenne pepper, curry powder, garam masala, ginger, and salt; cook for 2 minutes more. Add the tomatoes, garbanzo beans, peas, and potatoes. Pour in the coconut milk, and bring to a simmer. Simmer 5 to 10 minutes before serving.

Mothers Day Pie

Mom (melissa) and I made pie yesterday. And then today we ate it.



I Like Pie!!!

Here's the recipe:

Crust:

4 cups all purpose flour

1 cup shortening

3/4 cup butter

3 Tablespoons white sugar

2 teastpoons salt

1 egg 1/2 cup water

1. in a large mixing bowl, combine all purpose flour, shortening, sugar and salt. Blend together with a pastry cutter until crumbly.

2. In a small bowl, mix egg with water. blend into flour mixture. Chill in refrigerator until ready to use

Rhubarb middle goo stuff:

4 cups chopped rhubarb

1 and 1/3 cups white sugar

6 tablespoons all purpose flour

1 tablespoon butter

1 pie crust

1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 C)

2. combine sugar and flour. sprinkle 1/4 of it over pastry in pie plate. Heap rhubarb over this mixture. Then sprinkle with remaining sugar and flour. dot with small pieces of butter. cover with top crust.

3. Place pie on lowest fack in oven. bake for 15 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F (175 C) and continue baking for 40 to 45 minutes. Serve warm or cold

Cheesecake!

For Allynns birthday yesterday I made mini cheesecakes....


http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Mini-Cheesecakes-2/Detail.aspx
except I used one teaspoon vanilla instead of the lemon juice.
oh and a wee hint of cardamom

Hunter Angler Gardener Cook

weird and cool food hunting stuff, check this out:

Honest Food

Tuesday night potluck thingy

If you really want the recipes you should ask Melissa. But she didn't make the naan.

Kleiners!

yea mom and i made kleiners today.
but we didn't use grandpas recipe.
shhhhh don't tell

snap snap gingersnaps

Yea I made cookies all by myself yesterday.
They turned out a little stiff though because i cooked them too long.
Whatever. Dip them in some coffee and they're still good.
(or i suppose you could try to not cook them too long)

Before:

After:

anyway, here's the recipe:

2 cups flour
1 Tbsp ground ginger
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 cup shortening
1 cup white sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup molasses
1/3 cup cinnamon & sugar

Mix 1st five ingredients and set aside. Beat shortening until creamy. Add sugar, then egg & molasses. Combine with 1st mixture. Roll dough into balls and roll in cinnamon & sugar. Bake at 350 for 10 min.

Pizza,

Pizza Dough:
1/2 c. very warm water
2 tsp. sugar
2 tsp. salt
6tsp yeast
1 1/2 c. warm water
2 Tbsp olive oil
5 c. semolina flour (italian crust)
OR 6 c. regular flour (thin crust)


sprinkle the yeast over the 1/2 c. warm water in a small bowl with the sugar and salt. Stir and wait a few minutes for the yeast to foam. Stir in remaining warm water and olive oil. Stir this mixture into the flour, making a soft dough that pulls away from the sides of the bowl. If it is too dry add more water; too wet ad flour

Turn out onto a floured board and knead for a few minutes to make a smooth elastic dough. Place in an oiled bowl and cover. Let rise 'til double (1-2 hrs). If dough rises before you are able to use it, punch down, reshape and let rise again. Or, you can reshape it and put in refrigerator for up to 2 days before letting rise at room temp.

preheat oven to 425 degrees with stone in. This crust: shape, top and bake pizza at once. Thick crust:shape, cover & rise 30 minutes. You can prebake 3 minutes before topping and baking, 15-20 minutes.
makes 4 pizza crusts, or 4 dozen appetizer size.

Catacombs Antioch (above): Mozarella, spinach, kalamata olives, roasted red pepper, feta cheese, rosemary garlic white sauce


Margherita: red sauce, mozzarella, fresh basil and fresh tomatoes

Note: I do not take credit for these. (except for the pictures) Melissa made them. I just ate them.

Cap'n jucy's

So I went with Allynn downtown to cap'n jucy's today, and had a veggie pizza dog, and might I say it was the best hotdog I've ever had. However, it did not occur to me to take a picture.
Post script;
they have normal hot dogs for you carnivores, too!

Gyros!

Note: mom (Melissa) made these and she gets all the credit
and she doesn't want me to give away her recipes.

Unfortunately I have no pictures of the gyros themselves, because I was too busy eating them, but here are the ingredients.

seitan, or lamb, whichever

hummus, tzatziki sauce, cumbers and Greek olives

feta cheese, chopped onions, tomatoes, and cucumbers again

yummy!

"romantic chocolate truffles"

"for a deceptively simple but luxurious tasting treat, try this recipe for truffles"

1/3 cup heavy cream
6 oz. dark chocolate finely chopped (or mini chocolate chips)
2 tbsp softened butter
unsweetened cocoa powder

1. Bring cream to a boil and poor over chocolate. Wait one minute then whisk until the mixture is smooth and shiny. Whisk in the butter completely; cover and refrigerate for 3 hours or until firm.

2. Scoop out teaspoonfuls of chocolate, squeeze them and roll them between your palms to form cherry-sized balls.



3. Roll the truffles around in a bowl of cocoa, then toss them from hand to hand to shake off excess. Cover and refrigerate until ready to eat. Warning! do not eat too many! They're very rich!



4. lick fingers

Dum Aloo, Dhal with fried spices, Jeera rice, Naan and mint Raita

So Sunday a couple of cold tired hikers showed up at my door. (Chris and Cassidy) I was warned ahead of time and had prepared a nice vegetarian (for Cass) Indian dinner for them.

Cass even pitched in and chopped Corriander ( Cilantro) for the Dum Aloo

We sat and ate it on the living room floor. Tasty Tasty.