Cedar Picnic Table
Only so you know on what am I spending usually the hot summer weekends, this post is about a picnic cedar table I built (commissioned by my wife) out of these six sided hexagonal picnic patio table plans
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Bacon Explosion
Had to do it. I knew it was going to come. The notorious creation of the BBQ Addicts, The Bacon Explosion a scandalous arteries clogging log of sausage, with crispy bacon bits, wrapped in … you guessed a layer of thick bacon! No trace of a vegetable in sight! None.
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Turkey Burger on Top 9 on Foodbuzz!
I didn’t even dream at the time of creating it that my humble Turkey Burger would make it to Top 9 on FoodBuzz! How cool is that! I might need to pay more attention to it later in a dedicated post with a recipe. Any takers? Anyway – check it out! It is mouth drooling and it can easily compete with the cover picture of the Saveur magazine (September 2009 issue)!
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Spinach Ravioli
This Wordless Friday’s cooking was (among others) a superb spinach ravioli with a 4-cheese filling (Blue, Feta, Parmesan and Cream cheese) sprinkled with sauteed sage, and in a fennel-butter-anchovies sauce. As always, let me know if you need the recipe.
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Home grown arugula & tomato salad
There’s nothing like an arugula and tomato salad that was grown in your backyard – our plot in my case. The nutty arugula flavor combines sublimely with the acidity of the tomato. No comparison with store bought produce. The porcini risotto was my first try to stick with the original recipe. But for some reason I had to go 8 minutes over the religious 14 minutes of cooking the risotto after the first stock scoop. Nevertheless it turned out wicked!
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Since it started, I’ve been wanting to spin off my participation in Nicole’s Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge – an ambitious project to bake myself through Peter Reinhart’s book with the same name. Finally, I have my hands full of sticky dough up to my elbows. This week’s challenge is Ciabatta Bread, a North-Western (Liguria) Italian invention that literally means carpet slipper because of its typical shape that resembles it.
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Cabin Turkey Burger
Dinner I fixed at the Wisconsin cabin this week – Turkey burger, with grilled portobello, red pepper and egg-plant, topped with aioli. And my brother in law who is also taking pics of it with his ‘food setting’ on his camera…Lovely.
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As French as it gets, Croissants can (and should) be found on any Continental breakfast plates in all hotels, or pastry stores. A light (as in weight, NOT calories, mind you!) leavened puff pastry also known as a Crescent or a Crescent Roll for its distinct shape, a Croissant is made by many rolled and folded layers of yeast dough with butter in between.
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Shish Kebob, Avocado Salad & Red Wheat
I thought of adding a weekly Wordless Friday post (following the same concept from my foodie pal Nicole from her Pinch My Salt blog, to just photograph the dish with no text added, etc.), mainly to keep a track of my meals, that I cook for the house every Friday. Who knows, over time it might become an inspiration for the days you and I need to cook and have no ideas what to prepare.
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I know – there is about a 2 months difference between Day 5 and this post (Day 6) of our kitchen remodeling adventure, many things have changed and many delicious dishes were cooked since, but though of bringing things to a partial closure with this post on kitchen remodeling, so we can get on discussing cooking after all.
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