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Ice Cream 2

Vanilla Bean and Peanut Butter Cup
2 1/1 C Milk
2 1/2 C Heavy Cream
1 Vanilla Bean
3 Eggs
3 Egg Yolks
1 1/4 C Sugar
2 T Vanilla Extract

Simmer 30 minutes, don’t let the eggs overcook

Black Pepper and Strawberry Ice Cream
3 1/2 cups fresh strawberries, whole
1/4 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1 1/2 cup half & half
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 [...]

Ice Cream 1

All my ice Cream recipes went down the drain when the site crashed.  My mom mentioned she wanted to use one so I’m going to combine all those posts and put them up again here.  If the instructions don’t say anything about cooking, I didn’t cook them.

Creamy Orange

2 C Orange Juice
3/4 C Sugar
1/2 C Whole Milk
1 [...]

Britnie's Salsa Verde

We got a bunch of Mexican food ingredients from our food co-op this week, and Britnie decided to take some of them and make a kick-butt salsa verde.  It was great, much spicier than the stuff we usually eat.

Ingredients

1 1/2 lb tomatillos
1/2 cup chopped white onion
1 clove garlic
1/2 cup cilantro leaves
1 Tbsp fresh lime juice
1/4 teaspoon [...]

Les Halles French Onion Soup

Anthony Bourdain, my favorite tv chef, was the head chef at Les Halles for a while.  This recipe is from the Les Halles cookbook and was helpfully put up over at Chow.com.  I made a few small changes based on what I thought sounded good and what ingredients I could find (you just try finding Gruyère [...]

Bread Variations

I’ve settled on the main recipe I like for bread, now I’m usually just changing what I mix in with the dough, and sometimes making slight changes (more or less yeast, adding an egg or two, etc).  Here are the three latest.  All of them use the same recipe, so after I list the recipe again [...]

Bread Part 5

Pesto and Parmesan Bread

Britnie took a bite of this one and I immediately knew I had a winner.  It’s a little more work because you need to make a small amount of pesto.  But the fact I made this on Saturday and it was gone on Sunday says a lot.  Like all the recipes I’ve been [...]

Bread Part 4

As you can probably tell, I like mixing stuff in with the bread. This time instead of cinnamon I thought I’d try something else Sidney would like, chocolate.

Chocolate Chip Swirl Bread

1/2 cup warm water

2 cups water
1 1/2 t yeast
1 t kosher salt
2 T brown sugar
6 cups flour
3 t softened butter
1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate [...]