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Dec 26
Rebuilding Bothell
Back in July, downtown Bothell suffered a fire of major proportion on its Main Street. The city rallied to help the businesses displaced by the conflagration cover their losses and find new locations. The surviving downtown businesses hosted a block party, as I reported in this post. Today’s Seattle Times reports on a state grant …
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Dec 25
Macaroons et Macarons
This year for the annual Christmas Eve dinner and white elephant extravaganza, I wanted to make something that the maximum number of attendees could eat. The vegetarians weren’t there, but the gluten- and allium-phobes were. Hence, I made macaroons and macarons. Both of these cookies use beaten egg whites as structure and leavening. Macaroons are …
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Dec 22
One Hit, One Miss
I’d thawed some boneless pork loin chops for dinner earlier in the week. We also had leftover sauerkraut and fresh cabbage. These ingredients whispered in my ear: Eastern Europe. Off I went to the cookbooks. I found a recipe for pork chops with mustard and cornichon pan sauce from Pierre Franey’s More 60-Minute Gourmet. I …
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Dec 05
Snowflake Freakout
As I said earlier this year, the Seattle area doesn’t do well with snow. Neither do the drivers. This is a source of amusement to my family in the Snow Belt, and a source of frustration to us. The forecast was for snow today. I opted to take the bus to and from work, since …
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Dec 01
Pinky’s Progress
Some of you will recall that I dislocated the pinky finger on my left hand while we were in France. After I got home, my primary care doc referred me to a hand surgeon. The MRI confirmed the X-ray findings: no fracture. For the last month I’ve been working with a hand therapist at the …
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Nov 30
The Apogee of Applesauce
Along with cranberry orange relish and two loaves of bread, I made applesauce on Thanksgiving. It did not go to our friends’ house. A day or so later Julian asked, “What did you do to this batch of applesauce?” Usually when he asks a question like that about one of my creations, it’s because he …
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Nov 26
Feeding Between the Lines, Hot Pot Edition
Last week our crew got together for Chinese hot pot. Our Taiwan-born friend put out an amazing spread of protein and vegetables to cook in communal pots of broth arranged around the one kitchen that can accommodate us all. One pot of broth was allium-free; another was designated for no fish or seafood. (The vegetarians …
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Nov 25
The Extra Ingredient
I made my traditional cranberry-orange relish for Thanksgiving. The recipe (if you can call it that) is insanely simple: 2 cups fresh or frozen cranberries,washed and picked over 1 navel orange, washed and cut into eighths (leave the peel on) 1 cup sugar Buzz the cranberries and orange pieces in the food processor fitted with …
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Nov 24
Happy Thanksgiving 2016
While I’m waiting for stuff to happen in the kitchen (bread to rise, apples to cook down), I grab a cookbook and browse. Today I picked Marcus Samuelsson’s The Soul of a New Cuisine. Samuelsson is an Only in America story: Orphan in Ethiopia gets adopted by a Swedish family and becomes a successful restaurateur in …
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Nov 19
Wednesday Morning
I admit that I am not into rap. The beats are unoriginal and the music is too electronic for my ears. Many of the lyrics are not consistent with my core convictions, to say the least. The female rappers, what few there are, sound as if they’re yodeling around some of the notes rather than …
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