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Costa Rican Peaberry coffee

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

I think I’ve finally found my favorite coffee.  I tend to float around and drink whatever coffee is at hand.  I’ve had really bad coffee and really good coffee, but there was never a coffee that stood out and said, ” Hey you, yeah you! You want to drink me!”.  That is until I had [...]

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Root beer?

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

So if you remember recently I made root beer.
And I just realized it’s still outside!  Crap I hope it doesn’t make the bottles explode.
Anyway, the recipe for the brew called for 20 inches of pencil thick sarsaparilla root.  Well I didn’t have whole root, but I did have shredded and sifted root, so we went [...]

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Spinach-tomato-cheese curd soup

Friday, December 19th, 2008

I know it probably doesn’t sounds the greatest, but damn it’s pretty good!
I was going to have tomato soup for lunch today, but then thought ‘hey, I’ll throw in some cheese curds and it’ll be even better’. Then something unexpected happened.  The Spinach I had had in the fridge thawing called out to me…
“Add me [...]

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Deep fried bliss

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

We cleaned out the deep fryer for the chimis we wanted to make and that led to all sorts of fatty goodness.  I love my deep fryer and now I feel bad for ignoring it.  I made beignet, those littel french doughnuts you get a Cafe du Monde in New Orleans, and smothered them in [...]

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Flour Tortillas…. mmmmmm…

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

Flour tortillas from scratch are fairly easy to make and they rawk hardcore!  I made a batch, without consulting my Mexica friend, which proved to be less than optimal.  I cooked them on the griddle for too long and they came out a bit … hmmmm… shall we say crispy.  We’re going to try again [...]

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Root Beer… I hope

Monday, December 15th, 2008

So I tried making root beer Friday.  I’m still waiting for carbonation to finish in the bottles, then we’ll see if it’s any good.  I’m hoping it is, but it seems a little heavy on the sarsaparilla. If I make it again, I think I’ll filter it through some cheese cloth.  There seems to be [...]

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Grape and Cherry Soda

Monday, November 10th, 2008

So now that I managed to make a Ginger Beer and a Lemon Lime Soda, with limited self-injury. I think it’s time to move on to bigger and I hope yummier stuff.  Not that my first two sodas weren’t great, but I really want a grape soda and a cherry-vanilla soda and a couple others.  [...]

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Breakfast stout

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

We made a breakfast stout this afternoon. It should have a fairly low alcohol content and a nice silky mouth feel from the oats. This was a non-organic recipe we decided to make. If we like it, then we’ll reproduce it using organic ingredients. Bryan is getting to really great at [...]

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2nd pretzel round….

Friday, October 31st, 2008

I made the first recipe for Pretzels again… I’m still having issues getting them to not stick to the parchent paper when they’re rising, but now that I think of it, I didn’t exactly grease/butter/oil the paper either.  I guess I’ll have to try that next time.  Other than that I think they turned out [...]

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Mexican (Tex-Mex) Pizza

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Ok, so a while ago I mentioned that we tried making a Mexican Pizza.  It turned out phenominal!  We used the spent grain pizza dough we’d made from the Hazelnut Brown Ale. I had already done the 500°F prep on it so that was a bonus.  We had some Hot Italian Sausage (about .75 pounds) [...]

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