tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66102685625811737872024-02-19T07:01:30.177-08:00the GOOD FOOD fairyMeals just don't appear without her!the GOOD FOOD fairyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07797715178901348164noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610268562581173787.post-25884645103816383322011-05-11T14:22:00.000-07:002011-05-11T14:26:28.032-07:00OUTING # 3: POSTCARDS FROM VENICE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-zxdUt6znvRhrF2uOwoh5mBfkSgc9x7_3usH5DVPSNQqILPIv1179J6DS275l49cWrOEVcnCx7m26jNR6Mo2tMJQO0UfQhwhajyGy0jW_8of1iTrB-DAKpUUh-5vmYyzxBSoQ7qNOjDjH/s1600/IMG_8109.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-zxdUt6znvRhrF2uOwoh5mBfkSgc9x7_3usH5DVPSNQqILPIv1179J6DS275l49cWrOEVcnCx7m26jNR6Mo2tMJQO0UfQhwhajyGy0jW_8of1iTrB-DAKpUUh-5vmYyzxBSoQ7qNOjDjH/s400/IMG_8109.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">You've probably noticed it has been a LITTLE while since I have posted--ANYTHING. It just so happens we took the fam to Italy for a few weeks via Venice, Siena and Rome. You might be thinking...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Wow Italy..."</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">"wow three weeks..."</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Uhhh...That was a month and a half ago! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"> And thus we learned a very important lesson...after the vaporetto (water taxi) rides past...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">beautiful things like this ...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">making chalk outlines Indiana Jones style of ancient Christian monoliths...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">on a Venetian island like Torcello where the people of Venice fled when Attila the Hun attacked...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">After sunset walks along the Grand Canale...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">walks that sometimes take you forty five minutes down unmarked streets...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">until you finally find it -- DINNER (pant) PER FAVORE...the trattoria (mom and pops joint) your wonderful knight has picked out and enjoy the pleasures of Venice cuisine -- wonderfully grilled seafood and pasta black with squid ink! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">After all this-- but of course never during-- you realize that going forward probably won't be traveling to Italy on Spring break because when you come back you feel like it should be summer, but it's not and it take a month before the kids can bring themselves to practice piano or go to tutoring or before you can even face email again, let alone the computer!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">CIAO CIAO!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>the GOOD FOOD fairyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07797715178901348164noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610268562581173787.post-68221920551548930852011-03-25T16:21:00.000-07:002011-03-25T22:46:13.193-07:00Bad Love Sonnet with Stomach Flu<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0pDBJq_3DQ_NABEiAwzc8bxq8irfpTiFvuG_4w6cgKtlcUFTIExlO7YFez8V5_oQg1Zh1NvXpEBpEa_Ym1XYuUYX7L-rjTICCpv0gOyIZ4U9ONnLtq7yA-f4cWIezS6DAZjCnumTITinA/s1600/IMG_7365.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0pDBJq_3DQ_NABEiAwzc8bxq8irfpTiFvuG_4w6cgKtlcUFTIExlO7YFez8V5_oQg1Zh1NvXpEBpEa_Ym1XYuUYX7L-rjTICCpv0gOyIZ4U9ONnLtq7yA-f4cWIezS6DAZjCnumTITinA/s400/IMG_7365.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> Oh twelfth anniversary,</div><div style="text-align: center;">a seemingly doomed twelfth, poor twelfth</div><div style="text-align: center;">with babysitter-set plans,</div><div style="text-align: center;">for an entire March afternoon's span,</div><div style="text-align: center;">without our three little elves</div><div style="text-align: center;">Just me and him, hand in hand.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> It was about three-in-the-morning </div><div style="text-align: center;">always three...why three?</div><div style="text-align: center;">when the sound of vomiting</div><div style="text-align: center;">broke the silence of our sleep</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Is someone throwing up?"</div><div style="text-align: center;">I called out from the bed...</div><div style="text-align: center;">"It's me Mom" Soda said.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So all through the morning </div><div style="text-align: center;">and all through the day</div><div style="text-align: center;">after rainchecking the sitter </div><div style="text-align: center;">my knight held our little Soda as he slept </div><div style="text-align: center;">leaning him over the barf bucket</div><div style="text-align: center;">when Soda would whimper</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Dad help..."</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">"It wasn't exactly as we'd planned </div><div style="text-align: center;">not what we'd pictured," my knight said, </div><div style="text-align: center;">but...somehow romantic</div><div style="text-align: center;">and sweet and fun.</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Kinda like our marriage,"</div><div style="text-align: center;">he said. I answered, "Yup."</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
The stomach flu lifted<br />
Soda began to eat saltines<br />
All of us much relieved<br />
sat down on the couch and<br />
turned on Indiana Jones number three.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Cheers!</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div>the GOOD FOOD fairyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07797715178901348164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610268562581173787.post-1693163299655409652011-03-17T17:54:00.000-07:002011-03-17T17:54:28.561-07:00BOONIE'S GUACAMOLE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiso7J-EuzRWiZUSTWwhRg1DEsRSsuvjzteHmdDpO8ujqwgT9KyN4qb0emd4iefNmuIRRsKpDNiOwrUh8ljSz7MOvRV7KC9U-PCY5UMwERJ6drCvZdj9ure7qhPHnX72Zgqvdxue_QBdxkE/s1600/IMG_7361.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiso7J-EuzRWiZUSTWwhRg1DEsRSsuvjzteHmdDpO8ujqwgT9KyN4qb0emd4iefNmuIRRsKpDNiOwrUh8ljSz7MOvRV7KC9U-PCY5UMwERJ6drCvZdj9ure7qhPHnX72Zgqvdxue_QBdxkE/s400/IMG_7361.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">What food do you think of first, when you think St. Patty's day? For Boonie, my big guy, it's Guacamole--of course! And here, only here, can you get his top-secret recipe and in his own words too...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Get an avocado...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">then cut it in half...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I keep turning it around...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">crack it open!</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Take the pit out.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The pit is a big seed in the avocado.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Then throw away the pit...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">take the squishy part out...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">put them on the cutting board...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">grab a bowl and get a fork...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">then squish it...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and squish it...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and squish it...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and squish it until it's all squished up.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Then add salt and pepper...just one shake.</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Put a chip inside it. That's it!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Well, folks, there you have it. Easy, efficient, healthy and tasty. What it's lacking for in Irishness it makes up for in greeness.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Happy St. Patrick's Day!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Enjoy,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The Good Food Fairy </div><div style="text-align: center;">and</div><div style="text-align: center;">Boonie</div>the GOOD FOOD fairyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07797715178901348164noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610268562581173787.post-64534691960513364562011-03-14T22:32:00.000-07:002011-03-14T22:42:55.355-07:00OUTING # 2: FOODIES in PHOENIX<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>DAY 1</b>: <b>ARRIVAL</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Itinerary: </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">--Lunch at <a href="http://www.theparlor.us/">The Parlor</a> : the Porchetta Pizza--<i>Red Wine Braised Berkshire Pork / Broccolini / Shropshire Cheese / Red Wine Glaze</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">--Shopping / Talking / Shopping for curtains with 8-month-old cutie pie Matthew</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">--Dinner chez Sara's. Sara with her Mississippi roots is an EXCELLENT hostess. What does it mean to be an excellent hostess?? Well, not only does she have a beautiful, comfortable house, knows exactly where to take you out for shopping for a pair of shoes that would be perfect for you, has a gift for you, and makes you feel comfortable in your own skin, but she is also an excellent cook! So, after her husband whisked the baby off to bath and bed, she whipped up the appetizer above to tide us over while she made an excellent bucatini with all'Amatriciana. Bucatini is a very thick spaghetti with a tiny hole in the center and all'Amatriciana is a spicy tomato sauce. Excellent! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>DAY 2: GIRL TIME</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Itinerary:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>--</b>Breakfast: I woke up to home-made bran muffins, freshly squeezed orange juice (from oranges off her own tree) and blackberries.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">--Shopping.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">--Lunch: the <a href="http://www.zincbistroaz.com/">Zinc Bistro</a> where I savored a crispy duck confit sandwich with house fries and...creme brule. It is a French restaurant afterall. It would be a sin to pass up dessert.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">--Afternoon lounging around the pool and then we made a grocery list for I had brought Mario Batali's <i>Grill Italian. </i>And as Sara is a grill aficionado we decided to do four recipes from Mr. Batali's cookbook...they were (drum roll please)...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Anitpasto: ASPARAGUS WRAPPED IN PANCETTA WITH CITRONETTE</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(*translation: Appetizer: Asparagus wrapped in italian bacon with an orange juice vinaigrette)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Primo: WARM SHRIMP SALAD WITH GREEN BEANS AND CHILES</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Secondo: T-BONE FIORENTINA WITH SAUTEED SPINACH</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(second platter: T-bone steak of Florence with sauteed spinach)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And our one bummer dish...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Another antipasto: GRILLED POLENTA WITH ROBIOLA AND SCALLIONS</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">No matter what I did, those polenta triangles (made with cornmeal) did not want to come off the grill. Sara thinks our polenta didn't set up right. And the scallions were too chewy, making it hard to eat. So here are our notes...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sara readying the gas grill. Mr. Batali says gas or charcoal grills will work just fine.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Snap off the ends of the asparagus and wrap with thin slices of pancetta and refrigerate.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ooh La La! Just look at the pancetta crisp up so beautifully basting and steaming the asparagus inside. I'm inside whipping up the citrus vinaigrette.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yeah...This dish was the hit of the night.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I got the toasted hazelnuts and red onions prepped and green beans parboiled (or boiled for about five minutes to bring them into fork-tender range. The shrimp dish...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">is beautiful and very fresh...a good potluck contribution. Flavors could have sat together longer to mingle...and last, but certainly not least was the...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Day 3: GOOD SHOPPING and GOODBYES</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>itinerary</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>--</b>Breakfast: Homemade french toast (using panettone bread) & home-made orange juice</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">--Lunch: Short rib soft tacos...can't remember the name of the restaurant I was comatose by then...it's amazing I made it onto the plane...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">--Shopping: 2 pairs of shoes (loafers and heels) both on some amazing 75% sale at Macy's or Nordstrom's or wherever we were...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">--GOODBYE and PLANE FLIGHT and...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It was back to business as usual and I was ready for it!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>the GOOD FOOD fairyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07797715178901348164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610268562581173787.post-39126120370679206562011-03-09T22:20:00.000-08:002011-03-09T23:05:25.604-08:00WORLD'S BEST CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV-pQow__GI3uXRezVi6Qk_crPD2DTxBtzdnD4wkWPG6740YEy1vnT_iy0OdLC699idtiIlUHNKpjYV1l0KmjpzZrfpiYZQkmjkA9Qjl4dcyg8nmn16Ff_msfGgnhkFbm0q1p0tgQ-SA2B/s1600/IMG_7099.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV-pQow__GI3uXRezVi6Qk_crPD2DTxBtzdnD4wkWPG6740YEy1vnT_iy0OdLC699idtiIlUHNKpjYV1l0KmjpzZrfpiYZQkmjkA9Qjl4dcyg8nmn16Ff_msfGgnhkFbm0q1p0tgQ-SA2B/s400/IMG_7099.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Today was a domestic affairs day...namely the plumber, AC unit guy and garage door technician working on the house. In between all of the hullabaloo, I baked a batch of the WORLD'S BEST Chocolate Chip Cookies...of course, I did not yet know that they were the best. I had developed this recipe, because I love chocolate chip cookies and felt like what I was getting from recipe books and the back of toll house could be better somehow. Using multiple flours in gluten-free baking to make things work and taste good, led me to..."why not use a couple different flours for regular cookies??" </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">After driving a hard bargain with the garage door technician, I sent him away with a napkin of warm cookies to soften him up. Three minutes later, the phone rang: "Mam, these are the best cookies I've ever had! I just had to call." Take 'em round to the neighbors for St. Patty's day--it will make their week!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">What you'll need:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">All purpose flour stick of butter</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">White whole wheat flour egg </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">flax seed meal sugar</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">baking soda brown sugar</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">salt vanilla</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">chocolate chips</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Crank on the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Loosen up your A.P. flour and measure out 1 cup or...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Throw a 1/4 cup white whole wheat flour into the bowl,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>the GOOD FOOD fairyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07797715178901348164noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610268562581173787.post-32359126607842031122011-03-03T11:46:00.000-08:002011-03-07T16:46:44.304-08:00OUTING # 1: Brown Bagging it at The Gamble House<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmme5Ru7dhQV4xflEFMySfC3zABECNBF3u0Mo3z7C9GwdkuBh5LFj6jiiQHPdR1WP-nhPKq9i7yj9jngArGaucwlDCwRFuyeGxaDDxSq04s_6KDEWIuDb61PPm5KUMkKl1vw0rVTfiPA6G/s1600/IMG_6758.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmme5Ru7dhQV4xflEFMySfC3zABECNBF3u0Mo3z7C9GwdkuBh5LFj6jiiQHPdR1WP-nhPKq9i7yj9jngArGaucwlDCwRFuyeGxaDDxSq04s_6KDEWIuDb61PPm5KUMkKl1vw0rVTfiPA6G/s400/IMG_6758.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>OUTING: The Gamble House</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>4 Westmoreland Place, Pasadena, California 91103</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It was on a day, much like today, a little drizzly and overcast, that I told my walking buddy, "I gotta get out of town..." and so we drove to the east--five minutes--ending up in the beautiful neighborhood of palatial craftsman houses behind the Rose Bowl to walk and have a change of scenery. We talk slash walked under the soaring trees lining the street, rounded the corner and ended here! Cue angelic voices: AAAAAAAAHHHHH. We did a little investigating and found that we had actually stumbled upon...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.gamblehouse.org/">The Gamble House</a>. "I've been wanting to see it," my buddy said and we vowed to return-showered--to tour and so we did...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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We arrived on a sunny afternoon at the historic "ultimate" bungalow with our sack lunches in hand. Tuesday is sack lunch day--so you can bring your lunch and eat in the backyard of the house. The Gamble House was built in 1908 for David and Mary Gamble--of Proctor and Gamble--by the famous Arts and Crafts architect brothers Charles and Henry Greene.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">We walked up the front steps and inspected the beautiful very solid front doors. The Arts and Crafts movement put great value on incorporating the hand made decorative arts...thus the intricate stained glass designs... </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We made our way around back noticing the picture glass windows that sit almost right on the porch floor...the Greene brothers desired their ultimate bungalows to feel like the house had grown up out of the land, an extension of their garden and landscape--and designed these windows to bring nature in.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We noticed a lantern light fixture now familiar to us as arts and crafts...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And glancing up at the timbers and beams...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the house looks and feels so solid and strong and permanent and...isn't that what we all want to feel at home? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We arrived in the back yard to eat lunch before our tour. If you feel like that lantern gives off a Japanese vibe...your right, the Greene brothers admired Japanese architecture. Something they bumped into in Chicago at the World's Columbian Exhibition on their way out to Pasadena...</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Well, here we are. In a shower of sunlight, the tables set out for us...peanut butter and jelly, sun chips and cuties...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Isn't it amazing what adventures we can find in our own neighborhoods??</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>the GOOD FOOD fairyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07797715178901348164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610268562581173787.post-35303817824765473152011-02-28T23:10:00.000-08:002011-02-28T23:10:35.465-08:00Chicken Strips<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigCqGb5A3gmpCIkYM51kG5b19G-Uc-6w-ltJIRHxWCRxaoFO-Qy_TmbJnGxb_qDftkLgJoO_GQcaS_krFdd9oTItkoqqhsJoMq0N5HMzvbViR-g5LJkK9A14163nENbUJDLzZw6TuM0KV2/s1600/IMG_6948.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigCqGb5A3gmpCIkYM51kG5b19G-Uc-6w-ltJIRHxWCRxaoFO-Qy_TmbJnGxb_qDftkLgJoO_GQcaS_krFdd9oTItkoqqhsJoMq0N5HMzvbViR-g5LJkK9A14163nENbUJDLzZw6TuM0KV2/s400/IMG_6948.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">What child in America doesn't want chicken strips?? Boonie, my big guy, is no different. So when he began a <a href="http://thegoodfoodfairy.blogspot.com/search/label/THE%20AUTISM%20JOURNEY">gluten-free diet</a>, I set out to make all the foods he loved--gluten-free. That meant chicken nuggets and these chicken strips pass the highest standard -- all three boys love them!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">What you'll need:</div><div style="text-align: left;">boneless skinless chicken breasts</div><div style="text-align: left;">brown rice flour</div><div style="text-align: left;">garbanzo and fava bean flour</div><div style="text-align: left;">curry</div><div style="text-align: left;">salt pepper</div><div style="text-align: left;">buttermilk</div><div style="text-align: left;">egg</div><div style="text-align: left;">canola oil</div><div style="text-align: left;">lime (optional)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Wash and dry and trim the fat of five fully thawed boneless skinless chicken breasts.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">We're gonna have to sacrifice a ziploc baggy to get our chicken breasts pounded to about 1/2 inch thickness. Slip it inside the bag and pound out those frustrations with the flat side of the meat pounder.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">The one on the left has not been pounded and the one on the right has been pounded. Pound all of the breasts so that they are uniform in thickness. This way they will cook uniformly and for the same amount of time. Cut each breast into strips. I usually get four.</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">In one pie plate add 1/2 cup of brown rice flour and...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Garbanzo & Fava flour (Garbanzo flour is fine).</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">1 cup.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">2 teaspoons salt...</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">2 tablespoons curry powder...hmmm...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and 1 teaspoon pepper. Whisk it together--careful! so it doesn't all go spilling over the edge.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In a second pie plate add an egg...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">3/4 cup buttermilk...we've been working through that buttermilk...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">into the pie plate of wet stuff...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">about a tablespoon of water...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and the juice of 1/2 a lime (if you don't have one, don't worry just keep going). Whisk the wet stuff up really well.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Set up your assembly line of chicken strips, wet dip and flour dip.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Fork each strip a couple times so the wet dip will soak in.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now we have to add about a 1/2 inch of canola oil (high-burning point oil--not olive) to a large stainless steel skillet.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This much oil. Turn on the heat to medium-high for five minutes, then turn it down to medium for three minutes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Let them soak while the oil is heating up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Roll each strip in the flour mix. I end up using my hands to roll it, pat it and whatever else to get it really covered with flour.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lay the strips in the oil gently...don't overcrowd...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Stay with the strips and watch them...about four minutes and...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> and some will be ready to turn.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Turn with your fork when one side is golden browned.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">When they're finished, they go onto paper towels to cool a bit. Then I get the organic ketchup and mix up a big spoonful of mustard, a small spoonful of Dijon, a big spoonful of honey and a three drops of Tamari soy sauce (gluten-free) for a tangy honey mustard. The Boys love it!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yours will love them, too!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Enjoy,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>The Good Food Fairy</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br />
</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>GLUTEN-FREE CHICKEN STRIPS</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br />
</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Ingredients</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">5 boneless skinless chicken breasts</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1/2 cup brown rice flour</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1 cup garbanzo & fava bean flour </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">2 tablespoons curry</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">2 teaspoons salt</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1 teaspoon pepper</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">3/4 cup buttermilk</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1 egg</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1 tablespoon canola oil</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1 tablespoon water</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">canola oil for frying</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Method</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1. Prepare chicken strips. Pound each chicken breast to uniform thickness (about 1/2 inch) and cut into strips.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">2. In a shallow dish whisk together the dry ingredients.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">3. In another shallow dish whisk together the wet ingredients.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">4. Prick the chicken strips with a fork three times each or so and soak them in the buttermilk mix while the oil is preheating.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">4. In a large skillet, add enough canola oil to come about a 1/2 inch up the sides of the skillet and preheat it over med-high heat for five minutes. Then turn the heat down to medium for three minutes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">5. Dip the strips in the flour mixture until thoroughly covered and lay them gently in the oil. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">6. Cook until tdeep golden brown on each side (about 4-6 minutes on each side). Remove to a platter lined with paper towels. Serve with favorite dipping sauces.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">*Frying tip: Allow the oil to heat up about a minutes in between each batch of strips.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>the GOOD FOOD fairyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07797715178901348164noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610268562581173787.post-83591010679272946502011-02-25T11:45:00.000-08:002011-02-25T11:45:16.784-08:00MAGIC MOMENT # 5: WAHOOOOO!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWZjohgS1cVQYGv5jw45fxUxjwmaeZWe5b1LglIqEKTLzRXEuX31Zsty2uClvKrRxUWdUTFL1O6T2dSqlxG9VM1Lz6auw3kxyXumQLc5NmSLyN-7AY2vz2BzjGz3eddk8EavcLjj823fak/s1600/IMG_6460.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWZjohgS1cVQYGv5jw45fxUxjwmaeZWe5b1LglIqEKTLzRXEuX31Zsty2uClvKrRxUWdUTFL1O6T2dSqlxG9VM1Lz6auw3kxyXumQLc5NmSLyN-7AY2vz2BzjGz3eddk8EavcLjj823fak/s640/IMG_6460.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">A tree. A rope. A ladder. Ahhhhh to be a kid...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Do you have to be a kid to try?? What do you do first?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Climb up ladder with rope...I can do that.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hold on for dear life and...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Geronimo! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">On second thought, I'll just watch.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Have a great weekend!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>the Good Food Fairy</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>&</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Cinnamon, the dog</i></div>the GOOD FOOD fairyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07797715178901348164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610268562581173787.post-74939168007863908092011-02-23T10:26:00.000-08:002011-02-23T10:38:31.156-08:00Banana Buttermilk Cream Pie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7sI9M_JTZ2gV4GVKQu-oGvKCKWU_9xyxMfmXzPfehYTrCNFh3oi6sOBEgVTt_L_ZOXbL3vYLbm7S3NJ4Yz3-TRDYhIzgIUXRvb1WTFepOaLgBNmemsj42X59LajDcF2Jj3EsFgLvKgbr3/s1600/IMG_6750.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7sI9M_JTZ2gV4GVKQu-oGvKCKWU_9xyxMfmXzPfehYTrCNFh3oi6sOBEgVTt_L_ZOXbL3vYLbm7S3NJ4Yz3-TRDYhIzgIUXRvb1WTFepOaLgBNmemsj42X59LajDcF2Jj3EsFgLvKgbr3/s400/IMG_6750.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On Sunday, I found a blizzard of crumbs at the foot of the cupboard where I keep all of the baking stuff: ie. chocolate chips, pralines, almonds, cornstarch...you get the idea. Almost on cue, the Horseman walked through the kitchen and said, "Sorry mom, but those crumbs are good. What are they for?" As I began to pontificate on the finer uses of Graham Cracker crumbs--say, as a crust in the service of a banana cream pie--a chemical reaction in the brain triggered an inner yearning for banana cream pie. Of course the desire to educate my son with an object lesson as to the greater culinary purpose of graham cracker crumbs played a key role and soon I was pulling out the ingredients. This version has a slight twist because we didn't have milk...only buttermilk! So there's a zing, not to mention maple syrup whipped cream and nutmeg in the crust to complement...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir02wBfRKAh_USfGU8-F9F_4-uAr8k3GIwv7hRNaeT0Xddd-F15k4j3k-2mUxh36U4gGGAFaCdHGORYOqaUlNvDLRi57SimOS_Xb8Hmraqv3aopO4J2yIBuka1O36KnwKtSbQ5mdiD71oX/s1600/IMG_6734.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;">I drove right out to my mom's on Monday and made one for her, too. She loved it. </span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><u>FOR CRUST</u> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">graham cracker crumbs </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">sugar </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">margarin or butter </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">nutmeg </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><u>FOR BANANA PUDDING</u> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">sugar cornstarch</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">salt buttermilk </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">5 egg yolks 2 bananas</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">vanilla butter</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><u>FOR TOPPING</u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">heavy cream & real maple syrup</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Preheat oven to 350 F. for crust.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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In a mixing bowl measure 1 1/4 cups graham cracker crumbs...<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">1/4 cup sugar and ...</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">5 tablespoons butter or margarine or a combo of the two. I had 4 tablespoons of margarine and 1 of butter at my house, so that's what I used. My mom only had butter, so that's what I used there.</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">and 2 teaspoons of nutmeg. You know, until culinary school, I never knew nutmeg was actually a cut nut that you grated very finely. Grating from the nut lends a more forte nutmeg spiciness, but whether grated fresh or not, will be just fine.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now whisk it together till everything's moistened.</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">To form the crust, pour your mixture into the pie plate and moving out from the center, flatten the crust up along the sides. I used the back of a measuring cup.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Bake at 350 for 6 to 8 minutes.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Mush two bananas with your mixer. The riper the banana the more banana flavor.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Choose a good pot for making the pudding. I have here my medium sized stainless steel Costco generic brand I received when we were newlyweds. They work great. So add 2/3 cup sugar... </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">1/4 cup corn starch and...</div><br />
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1/4 teaspoon salt and whisk it good.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Whisk in the 2 1/2 cups buttermilk really well and then...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ding! Time to take out that crust and let cool. Back to the pudding...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Plop plop plop...whisk in those 5 beautiful egg yolks, turn on the burner to medium heat (med heat as the boys would say) and prepare for a pre-arthritic condition! Wahoo!</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Stir stir stir! But pace yourself, we've got at least 10 minutes before we hit a bare simmer (tiny bubble here and there) and the pudding thickens. That is what we are doing here...cooking those egg yolks and getting that pudding thick.</div><br />
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The Horseman comes to the rescue...wanted to save his mother's wrists from that pre-arthritic condition...<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And my Knight! Taking over, not wanting his son to catch fire or his wife to end in decrepit hands...He's feelin' the burn...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ok, I'm back on stir patrol. You will feel and see it it begin to thicken and a tiny bubble or two will burst. Take the pot off the heat and whisk real good. It may look a little lumpy...don't worry. Stir for about three minutes. Then put it back on the heat, stirring still and bring it to a boil. At the first sign of a big bubble/s bursting. Take it off the heat completely.</div><br />
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cover with plastic wrap. Push the plastic wrap right against the pudding and crust so no condensation forms between the wrap and the pudding. Then refridgerate it for three hours...or if your in a big hurry, put it in the freezer.<br />
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Now clean up all your dishes...this will give the pie time to cool for the topping and inspire your mother to say something in wonder like, "Wow, you've started to clean up after yourself." And you smile and think, but do not say "Mom, remember, that was when I was 12."<br />
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Now start the topping, mixing a cup of heavy cream with a 1/4 cup pure maple syrup...sorry, no Aunt Jamima's here. Whip until peaks form and hold their shape. Take the pie out of the fridge or freezer, remove the plastic wrap and smooth the whipped cream layer on top with a rubber spatula and put back in the fridge or freezer uncovered for a couple more hours. Cover with wrap if you're not going to eat it for a while and keep it in the fridge.<br />
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Enjoy!<br />
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<i>P.S. the Horseman LOVED it! </i><br />
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</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><u>Banana Buttermilk Cream Pie with Maple Syrup Whipped Cream</u></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><u><br />
</u></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Ingredients</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b><br />
</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>for the crust</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">1 1/4 c. graham cracker crumbs</div><div style="text-align: left;">5 T. butter or margarine, melted</div><div style="text-align: left;">1/4 c. sugar</div><div style="text-align: left;">2 t. nutmeg</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>for the pudding</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">2 bananas</div><div style="text-align: left;">2/3 c. sugar</div><div style="text-align: left;">1/4 c. cornstarch</div><div style="text-align: left;">1/4 t. salt</div><div style="text-align: left;">2 1/2 c. buttermilk</div><div style="text-align: left;">5 egg yolks</div><div style="text-align: left;">1 t. vanilla</div><div style="text-align: left;">2 T. butter</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i>for the topping</i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">1 c. heavy cream</div><div style="text-align: left;">1/4 c. maple syrup</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>METHOD</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u><br />
</u></div><div style="text-align: left;">1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">2. In a medium mixing bowl, add the ingredients <i><b>for the crust </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">and whisk together until moistened. Pour mixture into a pie baking dish and, working from the center out, flatten the crust against the dish up along the edges. Bake at 350 for 6 to 8 minutes.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">3. Prepare the pudding: Mash up two bananas with a mixer. Set aside.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">4. Measure sugar, cornstarch and salt into a medium sauce pot. Whisk together completely. Whisk in buttermilk and banana mush.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">5. Whisk in five egg yolks. Stir constantly over medium heat until the pudding thickens and first signs of simmer (tiny bubble burst here and there). </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">6. Remove from heat, stirring for about three minutes. Return to heat, stirring constantly until first signs of a boil. Remove from heat completely.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">7. Stir in vanilla and butter until fully incorporated. Pour pudding into crust and cover with plastic wrap. Cool in refrigerator for three hours.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">8. Prepare topping: Mix the heavy cream and syrup until thick. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">9 When pie has cooled to luke warm, remove pie from refrigerator, remove plastic wrap and smooth topping over the pie with a rubber spatula. Return to fridge until firmed and ready to eat.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>the GOOD FOOD fairyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07797715178901348164noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610268562581173787.post-91719988128530635892011-02-19T20:08:00.000-08:002011-02-19T20:08:52.921-08:00Pickle Popsicle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjawU58nS1jvHgSdlsK67V3vex4vtPOWlhKiGLoLzd7KjsjyojodzfeJNX8E6_1eBIkBgiWAot8BAwjbeGJPwAqT5nkcLIrxZKguTIZCQBJpISSnm5bqFCRtrxWGGilmFsaZedFPpZ_hXks/s1600/IMG_6140.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjawU58nS1jvHgSdlsK67V3vex4vtPOWlhKiGLoLzd7KjsjyojodzfeJNX8E6_1eBIkBgiWAot8BAwjbeGJPwAqT5nkcLIrxZKguTIZCQBJpISSnm5bqFCRtrxWGGilmFsaZedFPpZ_hXks/s400/IMG_6140.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">"The pickle," my knight often says, "is very healthy." Now I have not sought out any research on the subject, but I'd be willing to bet that <i>may</i> be a stretch. Ok, ok, for the sake of my marriage, I will say "in moderation." But, my knight, bless his heart, can eat three or four with one tuna sandwich. Consequently we often have a large empty pickle jar full of pickle juice laying around on the kitchen counter. Soda, who follows in his father's footsteps, loves pickles as well and takes the idea of "re-use" to a whole new level with the invention of his pickle popsicle. Now a staple at our house....in the words of Soda, here's how it's done...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">You take the pickles out...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">You put the juice in the freezer. Then when it's freezed, it's ready. Eat it with a spoon. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">There it is folks...a savory popsicle! cheap, resourceful, gluten-free, dairy-free, easy and pickle-lover friendly.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">ENJOY,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b>The Good Food Fairy</b></i></div>the GOOD FOOD fairyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07797715178901348164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610268562581173787.post-15403468814045906472011-02-17T22:32:00.000-08:002011-02-18T07:48:37.073-08:00Timeline<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCcNbjNLvd3BeCEKQ-TNqAhpkHdBwHiaKpAK6eNLuMlAnt0raXj-BqsXYmS6H9xKayepU2_L02ndMBcrmkLxHZJS8u4sNYe51uQYUY2deMHYWeeiS6APKzZpYBncyV4w4H7304kfMLfkEK/s1600/IMG_6413.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCcNbjNLvd3BeCEKQ-TNqAhpkHdBwHiaKpAK6eNLuMlAnt0raXj-BqsXYmS6H9xKayepU2_L02ndMBcrmkLxHZJS8u4sNYe51uQYUY2deMHYWeeiS6APKzZpYBncyV4w4H7304kfMLfkEK/s400/IMG_6413.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Once upon a time, I thought I knew everything. And as all fairy tales start, this too starts at Disneyland. Thought I had learned all there was to learn. I couldn't possibly imagine what there was left to learn. Love, truth, nature, beauty, 19 century British History, not to mention how to lead the triple step and the fox trot as seen above. Yup that's me bustin' a swing move at the Carnation plaza (well near it anyway) with my back to ya...did I mention <i>Love</i>? </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">--Then I got married, woke up three days into my honeymoon and realized, I didn't know anything. Especially <i>Love</i>. "You were like, what, twelve?" my former coworker Darlene said. Real funny. "Just about," I said. And we laughed. Me kind of and her really laughing. Getting married kind of made me feel like a twelve year-old pip-squeak again looking up at all of these giant things I needed to learn. Except mom wasn't in the room down the hall Plus there's the initial mechanics of the whole thing that never seem to make it into the hours of girlhood fantasizing like, do I shut the door when I go to the bathroom when going number two or leave it open to promote closeness?? Do I lock the door when I wax or do it right out in front of him nonchalantly? Whose gonna make the bed? He doesn't expect <i>me</i> to do his laundry...does he???</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">--Then I had a baby and, well, with the ten people in the delivery room only two of which I knew by name (one being my husband)...any inhibitions I may have had flew right out the window. Suddenly questions about mechanics just don't seem relevant anymore.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">--A month after we had Black-Foot Boony (his pirate name), my husband gave me one of many wonderful birthday presents (November, Scorpio). We were sitting on the blue Ikea rug in our family-student housing bungalow, our little three-week old pup asleep and he handed me a UC study abroad packet...to Sienna, Italy. "What's this," I asked. We had no money as we were students in our last year of college. "For your present we are going to study abroad in Italy spring quarter. We will both apply and whoever gets in will allow us to go...but if we both get in you will take Italian and I will stay in the apartment and watch the baby. On afternoons and weekends we will see Italy." </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">And I did.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">And we did. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">And he did. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The only thing I can say about Italy is that it is where we created our own style of being together away from moms and friends. Some day we will live there. Some day.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">We graduated college. Much to my mom's relief.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">--Law school was next and my first venture as Stay-at-home Mom. Homemaker. Domestic Engineer. CEO of the fam. In South Central Los Angeles. Bars on everything. And a guy who would collect cans out of the dumpster in the alley outside our bedroom window and proceed to crush them at six 0'clock every morning. I learned that being a stay at home mom was the hardest thing I had ever done and tried to think of ways to get back into school.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">--Then came the Horseman...talking the moment he popped out. And with the Horseman, law school graduation.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">--Then came Soda. Well, Soda wasn't really planned. There's a story there, for another time.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"> --A house finally, with a big oven. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">And through it all, I cooked dinner. I can still remember what we ate on that hand-me-down drafting table in student housing that night he gave me Italy for my birthday. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Love & Stuff,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The Good Food Fairy</div>the GOOD FOOD fairyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07797715178901348164noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610268562581173787.post-34071185830143975472011-02-17T00:10:00.000-08:002011-02-17T00:12:58.517-08:00CORNY WAFFLE VALENTINES<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifcpekTicgng2FjPj7ZL-ztfFGBf-5MPqJfRrdbr1j23Oqy2P3kHf4N1-8eJdKEgViihGNHk6PDAPO2DUnHnWLqN9p7zuNXrjAHBTxdGpFjU7GQDgmQ4rMQV59K8W-I3OEqxowNj6_swmS/s1600/IMG_6397.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifcpekTicgng2FjPj7ZL-ztfFGBf-5MPqJfRrdbr1j23Oqy2P3kHf4N1-8eJdKEgViihGNHk6PDAPO2DUnHnWLqN9p7zuNXrjAHBTxdGpFjU7GQDgmQ4rMQV59K8W-I3OEqxowNj6_swmS/s400/IMG_6397.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Waffle iron</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Corn Meal Buttermilk or non-dairy milk & cider vinegar</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Brown Rice Flour or All Purpose Flour Maple syrup</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Baking Powder 2 eggs</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Baking Soda Butter or margarine (I use Earth Balance)</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Salt Lemon juice<br />
Filling of choice: lemon whipped cream, berries, sorbet</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">2 mixing bowls. Big one for dry ingredients, small one for the wet.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Measure out a cup of corn meal, a cup of flour (either Brown Rice Flour for gluten-free or All Purpose Flour otherwise), 2 t. baking powder, 1/2 t. baking soda and 1/2 t. salt. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Whisk together thoroughly. Now for the wet ingredients...so I get my small bowl...<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;">and add 2 cups of buttermilk or 2 cups of a non dairy substitute and 2 t. cider vinegar if you're making them non-dairy.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">!/4 cup maple syrup for the sweetener.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Now for separating eggs. If it's a get-out-the-door-in-5-minutes kinda morning, then I skip this step and just crack two eggs into the wet ingredients. But it's a special occasion and I want to really go all out, so I'm separating the egg yolks from the whites. This egg separator makes it really easy. The most important thing about separating egg is not to get any yolk into the whites or the whites won't stiffen into peaks. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Add the yolks and 6 tablespoons of butter to the wet ingredients and whisk it real good.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Time to beat the egg whites. Why do we do this? Well for the extra air it gives us with using so much cornmeal and especially if using Brown Rice flour as well. Since gluten-free flours don't rise like AP flour, remember corn meal is also a gluten-free grain, then aerating the egg whites is another method of leavening. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">The egg whites will start like this, then end up like...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">this. Stiff peaks, but not dried out.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">We're gettin' close so this is where I fire up the waffle iron.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and give it a quick whisk...don't over mix. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Fold in the egg whites. Make sure not to work them over too much, we want to keep that fluffiness. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">A tablespoon or two of lemon juice. Gently mix in.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Scoop enough batter so it comes to within a quarter of an inch of the edge on the first or second setting. one: for more soft, two: for more crunching. This batter browns quickly on anything past two. While it cooks I think about fillings for the boys' waffle sandwiches...today whipped cream and strawberries and raspberry sorbet... </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Waffles are done! Now for a woman's touch, because my house needs it.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Then with sliced strawberries and...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">fresh whipped cream I layer whipped cream first (so the berries will stick) then the berries, whipped cream berries. This morning I whipped a cup of heavy cream adding about three spoonfuls of sugar and a couple teaspoons of lemon juice before before whipping. Orange juice would be fun to try instead of the lemon since orange goes so well with strawberry. Ah, next time.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">And for those who want a dairy-free option, add a scoop of your favorite berry sorbet for ice cream sandwiches! It makes breakfast so special for the kids...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">and mom and dad, too!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">CORNY WAFFLE VALENTINES</div><div style="text-align: left;">(gluten-free option)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">INGREDIENTS</div><div style="text-align: left;">1 cup cornmeal</div><div style="text-align: left;">1 cup brown rice or all purpose flour</div><div style="text-align: left;">2 t. baking powder</div><div style="text-align: left;">1/2 t. baking soda</div><div style="text-align: left;">1/2 t. salt</div><div style="text-align: left;">2 c. buttermilk or non-dairy milk with 2 t. cider vinegar</div><div style="text-align: left;">1/4 c. maple syrup</div><div style="text-align: left;">6 T. butter or margarine, melted</div><div style="text-align: left;">2 eggs, separated</div><div style="text-align: left;">1 T. lemon juice</div><div style="text-align: left;">METHOD</div><div style="text-align: left;">1. Measure out dry ingredients into a big mixing bowl. Thoroughly whisk together and set aside.</div><div style="text-align: left;">2. Separate egg yolks from whites. Whip whites just until stiff peaks form.</div><div style="text-align: left;">3. Preheat waffle iron on first or second setting. Melt butter.</div><div style="text-align: left;">4. Measure out buttermilk, syrup, butter and lemon juice. Whisk together. Whisk in egg yolks. Then pour wet ingredients over dry and mix just until dry ingredients have all been incorporated. Do not over mix.</div><div style="text-align: left;">5. Fold in egg whites until just combined.</div><div style="text-align: left;">6. Spoon enough batter onto the waffle iron to cover 3/4 of the iron. Cook according to waffle iron's instructions.</div><div style="text-align: left;">7. Split waffles into fourths and cut out a bit of the top center to form a heart. Fill with sorbet or whipped cream and berries.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div>the GOOD FOOD fairyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07797715178901348164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610268562581173787.post-2834265581392488512011-02-13T20:30:00.000-08:002011-02-13T20:31:51.372-08:00Night Before Valentine's Poem<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlV8tS8ASYjflKlRXgkCyTVR3NF6SB9Tsd5jWV1QfWxg98zFI029bROJFdBGwfWvBx2rrPuB6DJQQVVheKFggJxgNtc6Ol7_GOG4oR2nw05dTboMHKwRZb5YRjsWImw04TYwHsNMx1kwDE/s1600/IMG_6162.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlV8tS8ASYjflKlRXgkCyTVR3NF6SB9Tsd5jWV1QfWxg98zFI029bROJFdBGwfWvBx2rrPuB6DJQQVVheKFggJxgNtc6Ol7_GOG4oR2nw05dTboMHKwRZb5YRjsWImw04TYwHsNMx1kwDE/s400/IMG_6162.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">T'was the night before Valentine's day and all through the house...</div><div style="text-align: center;">the family was sick / sleeping / and / or sitting next to mom whispering "can I watch an episode of batman", "can I play video games on your computer" , "there needs to be a picture of you--can I take your picture?" , "I want to write something on the blog can I write a column?" !!! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I in my fuzzy pink socks--pa was in bed snoring since late afternoon--had just settled down to the couch thinking, "tomorrow is Valentines day...I had had big plans! (Martha Stewart valentines, favorite candy bars...other things I have forgotten)...starting a tradition...everything prepared three days in advance...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Have you ever heard of local, organic produce coops? I recently signed up for a "small box" of the weekly assorted organic fruits and vegetables from Abundant Harvest. On Saturday mornings, we pack the fam in the car and head on down to a local nursery...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">where the truck drops off small and large boxes of organic produce from farms nearby in the bakersfield area. There's my Knight, hooded and all, taking our empty box to the truck...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">and returning with our box of good health! I love that the boys (and I) are learning what's in season. </div><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Here's what's in season this week: broccoli, parsley, sage, rosemary, potatoes, arugula, shallots, sweet potatoes, radishes, spinach, apples! Other than the amazing FLAVOR of fresh of the truck organic </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">produce, WHY ORGANIC??</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Nearly three weeks have whooshed by and the Joshua Tree camping excursion is a misty memory now. Of course, yesterday evening is a bit misty, too. Time, however, can not diminish the memory of warm succulent cherry tomatoes bursting on the tongue, the spicy andouille sausages, sweet baby bell peppers and flavor-soaked mushrooms that my knight and I enjoyed from an iron skillet saute invented out of necessity: the necessity of needing to use what we brought so we didn't have to lug it home! There's nothing like cooking in an iron skillet over an open fire. And no, the boys wouldn't eat it. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">First, you need an open sky...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">a fire, grate and an iron skillet. Ours is pretty well seasoned. (* Iron skillets are not washed, but oiled and put in your oven at 500 degrees for cleaning. The skillet then begins to be seasoned through repeated cooking, oiling and heating which adds to the flavor)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Mushrooms first--they have a lot of moisture and require a lot of time to get that moisture evaporated--and, of course the stray s'more angling for some heat. Most people wouldn't hear of s'moring until the evening, but not our brood. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Carrots and sausages next. Carrots because they are the hardest thing we are using today (need more time than say a bell pepper to soften). </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">See the carrots looking softer and glazed, the sausage showing the signs of being well on its way, the mushrooms looking moist and browned a bit...see that? Now it's time for the jalapenos and mini bell peppers.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Last, but certainly not least, are the organic cherry tomatoes! We added our veg in stages of hardness. Our deceptively moist mushrooms went first, though. Otherwise, those items that are hardest and therefore require more time would go in first, while our tomatoes, the softest, would go in last. If they all went in at the same time, the tomatoes would disintegrate before the carrots ever got soft. Thus timing. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"> Then for a large pinch of my Knight's very convenient seasoning mix (sea salt, cracked pepper and red pepper flakes).</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Now let it cook. Moving things around with your fire forks because this will make you feel like your really roughing it (or because, like us, you forgot to bring a spoon of any kind).</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Then my Knight, with his resourceful instincts, will rig up some way to get that skillet off the grill and over to...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">ummmmhhh...somewhere...how 'bout like a rock. (*note to self: bring hot pads to campsite)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Now for the feast! And after feasting...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">MUST GO CLIMB ROCK!</div>the GOOD FOOD fairyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07797715178901348164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610268562581173787.post-9910538947689215002010-10-26T21:57:00.000-07:002010-10-26T22:08:34.052-07:00CAMPFIRE COOKERY: SMORES<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0IMYQTdDL3gOfl7YkoWhC0ofKyChwQwe8IAKOO_A2oZipbinh-1nVE_mymiTfR3N3lhemPoUrNaJgHRQgEY94RE_dDeCwGAXbrDua5FM4367gA2hHyr-89QTLtkEbo3zHPoX1qyq85PVT/s1600/IMG_5955.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0IMYQTdDL3gOfl7YkoWhC0ofKyChwQwe8IAKOO_A2oZipbinh-1nVE_mymiTfR3N3lhemPoUrNaJgHRQgEY94RE_dDeCwGAXbrDua5FM4367gA2hHyr-89QTLtkEbo3zHPoX1qyq85PVT/s400/IMG_5955.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Ah Joshua Tree. My knight, who is a camping afficianado, took us all out to Joshua Tree National Park for an overnighter to celebrate Soda's birthday. We stayed at White Tank--a boys paradise. It has rocks... </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Big Rocks. </div><div style="text-align: center;">White Tank is so named because of the beautiful jumbo boulders of white tank granite that surround the campsite. White tank granite is made of three kinds of rock. Which brings me serendipitously to the traditional American camping treat known as the s'more which are also a composite of three things: graham crackers, chocolate and...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Roasted MARSHMALLOWS!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">To begin...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Grab a fire fork or iron hanger thats been untwisted and straightened out. To clean it off from it's previous user's marshmallows just </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Stick in the fire.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Clean. Now for marshmallows...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">2 seems good. It seems balanced...not too many, not too few...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">And in over the fire. Now there are two camps when it comes to cooking s'mores. Those who like to let it hang over the flame for just a second before strategically...<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">catching it on fire and burning it. Very nearly to a crisp. But those roasters who are in this "catch-it-on-fire" camp enjoy the crisp outside, goey inside, note of char in their roasted marshmallow...not to mention sharing a pyro streak. I do usually fall into this camp. But for the sake of this post and all of you who may not care for char and marshmallow pyrotechnics... I will also demonstrate the other camp...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">The "perfectly-golden-marshmallow" camp. Those in this camp have...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">patience...perseverance...self-will to overcome the temptation of catching it on fire.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Ah...perfection. (if I were in this camp, of course)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I've got my set up ready...chocolate, graham crackers...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sandwich marshmallows between bottom graham cracker and chocolate and top graham cracker and...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">gently remove the firework.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Et Voila! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Which s'more camp do you fall into?? Are you a golden roaster or burn, baby, burn roaster? Let me know in the "post comment" box! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>the GOOD FOOD fairyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07797715178901348164noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610268562581173787.post-79739658205394125602010-10-23T12:43:00.000-07:002010-10-23T12:43:14.352-07:00MAGIC MOMENT # 4: HALLOWEEN AND HEART ATTACKS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiboO0J35XZR0EzaCxVvgR3kMnywp_7H3w91a9r_7UghtUEU6xajqDFgh2Djy-CTmbqnlRD57akzOCw7zQDq8p91eUTFmho6R_SMZjbq-HA2vJJJlHE5Itqw_jrMSfondasvrD01HqSTuJt/s1600/IMG_5557.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiboO0J35XZR0EzaCxVvgR3kMnywp_7H3w91a9r_7UghtUEU6xajqDFgh2Djy-CTmbqnlRD57akzOCw7zQDq8p91eUTFmho6R_SMZjbq-HA2vJJJlHE5Itqw_jrMSfondasvrD01HqSTuJt/s400/IMG_5557.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Last Saturday, we celebrated Boonie's (my oldest son's) 11th birthday in grand boy fashion--video games, bionicle / lego table, pizza and pinata. And, as is tradition in our household, a Baskin Robbins ice cream cake. All twelve guests came in their Halloween costumes. Soda dressed as Buzz Lightyear (as seen in previous posts), the Horseman dressed as a Knight and Boonie, a pirate. Now Boonie is a social guy who has friends that are both on and off the autism spectrum. One of his dear friends, Frank, who happens to be on the spectrum dressed in an amazingly accurate...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Episode IV Darth Vader costume. We had a ninja, a Luigi (Super Mario Bros.), a sparkle witch, a yoshi, a Mario (both from Super Mario Bros.), a wizard, a ghoul with a pump that made red liquid drip down the mask in a disturbingly realistic way and a USC football player. So the party progressed. We played video games, we built bionicles, we had faux Kung Fu battles on the lawn (ie. Luigi v. Ghoul, etc.), we put our hands in bowls of eye balls (peeled grapes) and brains (slimy spaghetti), and we whacked a Frankenstein pinata till the candy fell out and it was around the table...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">feasting on Dominoes pepperoni pizza and bat blood (Hawaiian Punch, above), that Grandma Sung arrived. We announced, "Hey, everyone, this is Grandma Sung!"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Then, from across the room, before Grandmas Sung even had a chance to sit down or sample bat blood or set her purse down, Darth Vader demanded, "Where is your husband?!"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">And my eleven-year-old Captain Hook slash Jack Sparrow answered, "He died of a heart attack Frank." </div><div style="text-align: center;">"Oh," said Darth and the party grooved on right past marriage and death over pepperoni pizza and Hawaiian Punch and onto "Happy Birthday to you" and ice cream cake! </div>the GOOD FOOD fairyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07797715178901348164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610268562581173787.post-85813376786796034502010-10-20T17:17:00.000-07:002011-03-07T06:50:00.018-08:00Butternut Squash Soup<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY5chH4GFNFetTtlS97cVCZot4Gft-43AytcYBYZ7rVxSN85s1-GmM6d5hF_oc4UfUSpSaPiaZZLOhhIP9fM7COryrwB2wDKctUNZcPyfTmMkvHJ7siYRMDXgRMLIQ9btJvC5JHoPyK7x4/s1600/IMG_5507.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY5chH4GFNFetTtlS97cVCZot4Gft-43AytcYBYZ7rVxSN85s1-GmM6d5hF_oc4UfUSpSaPiaZZLOhhIP9fM7COryrwB2wDKctUNZcPyfTmMkvHJ7siYRMDXgRMLIQ9btJvC5JHoPyK7x4/s400/IMG_5507.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I'll just say right up front -- my boys won't eat this. But it's raining -- sweet rain -- and they want chicken tenders or a hamburger and my over-thirty metabolism would take three months to digest that ground beef patty (not to mention we just had hamburgers last night) and I want something vegetal and fallish? That's when I'll whip up this simple, fall soup with a crusty baguette and cheese slices, and an arugula salad with chopped pears or apples, pecans, parmigiano reggiano and vinaigrette. My knight feels like this is not a MAN'S meal--soup and salad--so instead of the baguette, I may do a large man's sandwich aka grilled cheese or I may just remind him about his over-thirty metabolism.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">You'll need one of these...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">a butternut squash. Crank the oven on to 400 degrees. Take out your chef's knife and ...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">cut it in half and breathe in that sweet squash aroma.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Scoop out the seeds. I like to get my hands dirty...but I think you're well within your rights to scoop with a spoon.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Drizzle olive oil on a baking sheet. Enough to thinly coat.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lay the squash halves on the baking sheet--halved side down--and slide them into a 400 degree oven. Now it's time to start the soup base.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Grab an onion, carrot and small russet potato. Give them a rough chop.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Add about 2 tablespoons of olive oil to a sauce pot or stock pot turn the burner to medium heat.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Add your rough chop and season with salt and pepper. Turn your burner to medium low, cover and let the veg soften but not brown. 10 -15 minutes.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Soft and easy to poke through with my skewer. Turn off the heat.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Add a tablespoon of curry - the secret ingredient. Time to check in with the squash.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">My handy dandy skewer pricks the now-soft squash easily. Flip your halves over...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Beautiful! But HOT...so to cool a little faster I use...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">an ice bath. It's a quick way to cool if you don't have one of those frozen paddles. So ice and water in one bowl and the squash goes</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">in a dry bowl, sized a bit smaller, floating on top of our ice bath. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">When the squash is cool, scrape it from the skin with a large spoon.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Add the squash and three cups of chicken or vegetable stock to the pot and bring to a simmer over medium heat.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I moved it all over to a stock pot--it was one big squash. I let it simmer about 10 minutes, breaking up the squash towards minute 9 with a wooden spoon. Then over to the...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">blender and push puree. Then back to the...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">pot for seasoning and thinning. Taste the soup. Is it too thick? Thin with milk or stock. Need more salt or pepper? Add a few more dashes. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Light a candle, dish it up and enjoy this creamy autumn soup! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #442a2a; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b><u> RECIPE: BUTTERNUT SQUASH SOUP WITH CURRY</u></b><br />
<b>*Gluten Free Option / Vegetarian Option</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #442a2a; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b></b><b><br />
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><b>3 c. no-msg chicken broth </b></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><b>1 carrot, peeled</b></li>
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</ul><div style="text-align: left;"><b> METHOD</b></div><ol><li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><b>Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.</b></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><b>Thinly coat a baking sheet with olive oil. Cut squash in half and lay halved-side down on the baking sheet. Roast until soft. 40 min. to an hour.</b></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><b>While the squash roasts, heat 2-3 tablespoons olive oil in a stock pot over medium heat. Roughly chop the carrot, potato and onion (smaller dice, more flavor from the veg). Add the vegetables to the oil and toss the veg in the pot to coat it with the oil. Cover and let soften over medium - low heat. 10 - 15 minutes. </b></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><b>When the veg has softened, add the curry and set aside. </b></li>
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</ol></div>the GOOD FOOD fairyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07797715178901348164noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610268562581173787.post-48841532457977103482010-10-18T10:36:00.000-07:002011-02-14T16:04:46.820-08:00THE JOURNEY: PART III With the help of Boonie's wonderful speech therapist, I was starting to gain tools that I could use to help my son develop his speech sounds, the most helpful probably being the technique of using play, using things he was interested in, to help facilitate his communication. <br />
The summer months came and with them, occupational therapy. It sounds very clinical, but in reality, occupational therapy was a wondrous place, much like a glorified play ground with a ball pit, zip swing, tire swing slides and all sorts of exercise balls, cushions, etc. that the therpist--Gina--would use in play with Boonie. Remember the old games of rolling someone up in a blanket burrito or making obstacle courses out of cones and the mini trampoline and hula hoops? All of these activities provide certain kinds of valuable sensory input that help regulate and calm bodies. It's the deep muscle sense of touch and Boonie, like many kids on the autism spectrum and many kids not on the spectrum, need that deep touch (or proprioceptive input) to help regulate their bodies. Boonie, they found, was under sensitive to touch, so he often sought out this kind of sensory input by shaking his head a lot, banging cabinet doors, jumping, flapping his arms when he got excited and looking for big hugs. Interestingly, after a couple weeks of O.T., his words began to come and since part of his speech problem was a motor planning issue, the O.T. helped teach his body and his tongue how to do the gross motor function involved in making sounds and stringing them together (gross motor planning). <br />
It was in O.T. when our therapist Gina told me about this special diet call gluten and casein free that some parents were trying and had found some success with in helping alleviate some of the behavioral symptoms categorized as "autistic behaviors." She told me that gluten was the protein in wheat, barley and oats among other grains and casein was the protein in milk. That's all I remember her saying at that time, but she procured a book for me from the group's nutritionist with gluten and casein free recipes and a list of things that contained gluten.<br />
Our therapies progressed. Boonie started a wonderful behavioral therapy called Floor Time. Our therapist was a wonderful young lady studying for her PsyD in Psychology. We were lucky to have her for four years. She came to our home 8 hours a week in the beginning. She would meet Boonie at what social level he was at that day (one of six social levels) and through activities he was drawn to, she would join him and begin to build on his play making it more meaningful, eliciting communication, holding him accountable to the rules, validating his interests and ideas and then building on them. It was a very joyful experience--every time. <br />
We also were able to place Boonie in a very good social skills group nearby. Boonie had begun to complain of stomach aches after almost every time we ate a meal. He would want to go lay down on my bed. His stool was loose not hardly ever firm. I didn't put all of this together until two events happened: 1) a conversation with another mom at the social skills group waiting room and 2) an autism conference I attended.<br />
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While in the waiting area, I struck up a conversation with another mother. She said her son had a mild autism diagnosis with an apraxia speech issue. This was very similar to Boonie. She said that with the help of a gluten-casien free diet, vitamin supplements and seeing a speech therapist who specialized in apraxia, her son was now at a point in his development where the doctor would no longer give a diagnosis of autism. The gluten-casien free diet had been nagging my motherly conscience. We had many allergies on both sides of the family. Maybe Boonie couldn't handle these foods. The thought, though, of cutting out bread and cheese from his diet had seemed like it would be very hard. He was already picky with what he ate. But the mother said, that after two weeks if he has some tantrums or it seems like he's regressing, then the diet is working. She said it is like going through withdrawls and then they improve. <br />
I went shopping directly afterward and made a dinner of boiled chicken breast and rice and peas. I found gluten free / casein free cereal, soy yogurt and G C free waffles. I tracked what I fed him and any behavioral changes I saw. I noticed improvements right away. First, the spacey fog cleared up. He seemed much more present and alert and attentive. He responded to his name right away as opposed to me having to call his name several times to the point of having to get face to face with him before he would respond. After a week, he started stringing words together. I experimented with different baking and pancake mixes. Going on a special diet means you begin to read labels and wow I began to notice somethings! For instance, high fructose corn syrup was added to a myriad of things--yogurts, breads, juices, etc. This didn't seem like a natural ingredient to yogurt, etc. so I tried to cut it out of our diet. I determined to get our food back as close to the farm as possible meaning, no chemicals or added things that wouldn't be in their if we lived on the farm, ie. artificial preservatives, dough conditioners, coloring added, etc. I began making a lot of things from scratch: gluten-free chicken tenders, g / c free muffins, waffles, pancakes, cookies. I didn't want Boonie to miss out on great food just because of the diet. So I experimented with gluten-free flours and almond milk instead of cow's milk. I found that Boonie really liked tacquitos and so I found out how to soften than corn tortilla in the oil to then be able to roll the chicken up in it and make some chicken tacquitos. Our family began to develop a taste for more depth of flavor in our baked goods. <br />
Then I heard about this Autism conference that would be featuring Temple Grandin's mother as the key note speaker and I wanted to hear what she had to say. I went to the conference and loved hearing her speak. I had a little time, so I stuck around for the next part. Two doctors--one of which was Jaquelyn McCandless--spoke. They delivered some riveting information that began to resonate with my observations of Boonie. What I understood from their presentation was this: that babies were being exposed to high levels of heavy metal compounds like Mercury in vaccines (ethylmercury preservative used prior to 2006) and other places and that due to genetic factors and other factors could make children susceptible to developmental problems that were being labeled as autism. They talked about leaky gut syndrome and my ears really perked up. They said that one problem caused by this exposure was a messing up of the gut lining. These children were not able to breaked down the gluten and casein proteins and sometimes soy and corn as well. That the gluten and casein protein s would be broken down to the peptides and then the peptides would circulate in the blood stream acting like an opiate and that was the "spaciness" we would see in children with the autism diagnosis. Children with this problem would crave gluten and casein like a drug and have withdrawls after going off. They talked about leaky stools as a result of messed up gut lining and malabsorption of vitamins and minerals necessary for development. They talked about deficiencies in calcium and the omegas and what symptoms deficiencies in these and other vitamins could cause in children's development. <br />
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I went and bought Dr. McCandless's book: Children with Starving Brains. There is a section in it that lists the vitamins and minerals and what symptoms of deficiencies in each are. I looked for Boonies symptoms and started using those supplements in smoothies for Boonie. Namely Cod Liver Oil. I also stared through in Epsom Salts to the bath so he could absorb the Magnesium Sulfate to bind with Mercury in his body so he could flush it naturally. Then I took notes of what changes I observed and what he ate every day and what vitamins he had everyday. I cut out apple and grape products (as those can cause candida yeast growth in the gut and further inhibit proper nutrient absorption through the gut lining) and started using pear products instead and frozen berries like blue berries for snacks. In short, I wanted to help heal his gut. I began to notice increased eye contact, more fluent speech, more social appropriate interactions, more responding to others and less of the flapping, banging and jumping. Eating foods that were pure of chemicals, more diverse grains and vitamins was a non-invasive way to help my son give his body what it might be needing. Keeping notes of his behavior helped me to track what was working. It wasn't so bad for the rest of the family's health either...<br />
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To be cont'd... <br />
the GOOD FOOD fairyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07797715178901348164noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610268562581173787.post-51843305460207062602010-10-13T11:29:00.000-07:002011-02-17T22:32:58.475-08:00WHAT DOES IT MEAN?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEincGKazn4s6NTR0eTkMYXZsFHe_xpaKZ8FGzh3O_BepdRC36R3QskCZrxLoz6ZlqApcPe4EgI8x1HUyBzCNTzHTN3ski5qSydlgKYCRKNiFvr2CB6nXFOncDDzC9EhW1B3ZtO6E1v90TGJ/s1600/IMG_5372.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEincGKazn4s6NTR0eTkMYXZsFHe_xpaKZ8FGzh3O_BepdRC36R3QskCZrxLoz6ZlqApcPe4EgI8x1HUyBzCNTzHTN3ski5qSydlgKYCRKNiFvr2CB6nXFOncDDzC9EhW1B3ZtO6E1v90TGJ/s400/IMG_5372.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">What does it mean when it's 10 O'clock in the morning and you are eating nachos off a foil lined baking sheet? (With some good pico de gallo, of course?)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Does it mean you have just realized it takes a really smart person to wield a "Simple" Singer sewing machine...and what does it mean that the thread from the bobbin keeps getting stuck and stopping the machine?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Does it mean that you are worried that the chain mesh tunic you have labored on with the aid of the "Simple" sewing machine for the Horseman's knight costume, may not be historically accurate and / or not fit him??</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Or does it mean that you might never find a fabulous gluten-free pizza dough recipe?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">No. Eating nachos off of foil at 10 in the morning simply means that you're tired and need a nap before the clamor of boys descends upon the house. <br />
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Nighty-night!<br />
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The Good Food Fairy</div>the GOOD FOOD fairyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07797715178901348164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610268562581173787.post-72694944335006933902010-10-08T15:35:00.000-07:002010-10-08T15:35:50.686-07:00:QUEST FOR GOOD, EASY GLUTEN-FREE PIZZA DOUGH<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRHbOvUoGLW9JCX3AIrmnAWSYpzZHio7NT2vpjr6pJkuxMOWiTAMdCjVN2wC4WRJWalIdr2ddqaYq3zGaUExfWoHlHpYEGX93ZMSYbiczvx7uSjkJOJtCh3nGR7atrTMjU2DS6ymZPG7D8/s1600/IMG_5323.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRHbOvUoGLW9JCX3AIrmnAWSYpzZHio7NT2vpjr6pJkuxMOWiTAMdCjVN2wC4WRJWalIdr2ddqaYq3zGaUExfWoHlHpYEGX93ZMSYbiczvx7uSjkJOJtCh3nGR7atrTMjU2DS6ymZPG7D8/s400/IMG_5323.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
My mission is to find a good gluten-free pizza dough that is good and doesn't have 4 million ingredients. I conducted the first experiment this week. Results are as follows: this first gluten-free pizza dough recipe had great flavor, some good sponge, but it dried the mouth. Not bad for a first try. But it's not there yet. That would be too easy. The ingredients were:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> INGREDIENTS:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Yeast Mixture: </div><div style="text-align: left;">1 c. water, warmed</div><div style="text-align: left;">1 T. honey</div><div style="text-align: left;">1/2 T. cider vinegar</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">2 c. brown rice flour</div><div style="text-align: left;">1/4 c. garbanzo / fava flour</div><div style="text-align: left;">1 T. potato flour</div><div style="text-align: left;">1 T. Tapioca flour</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">I let it rise for 30 minutes, patted the dough out on a pre-heated pizza stone (sprinkled with cornmeal), lightly floured the dough slab and gently rolled it out the rest of the way. I added toppings and baked. the pizza was ready in 9 minutes. The experiments continue for a simple, yummy, not-mouth-drying gluten-free pizza dough. It is time to investigate other cultures cuisines for flat bread made form gluten-free flours--polenta comes to mind. The quest continues...</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div>the GOOD FOOD fairyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07797715178901348164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610268562581173787.post-82223265842659018342010-10-07T22:00:00.000-07:002011-02-18T22:12:57.997-08:00GONE THRIFTIN'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7WUiTGfJY6ARW_r0ffwYbDUbnZ1sawvat9lEaSS6X6Ho6J7udtdb6qfZeZtYNrCoN1OjHFe9ulPNVk7IfvrKlnnsuBwIV0STHvhFdfHXNkMpr829JO4METyoo5UWg2bCkRPliWEPHWem/s1600/glassshakers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7WUiTGfJY6ARW_r0ffwYbDUbnZ1sawvat9lEaSS6X6Ho6J7udtdb6qfZeZtYNrCoN1OjHFe9ulPNVk7IfvrKlnnsuBwIV0STHvhFdfHXNkMpr829JO4METyoo5UWg2bCkRPliWEPHWem/s400/glassshakers.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">Today, the GOOD FOOD fairy needed to get out on the road...she needed freedom...she needed to get out of the house, get out of town --Get outta Dodge! I've just finished reading Ranky Florke's decorating book called Your House, Your Home. He is a Farmhouse man -- restoring, decorating and selling-- and he is a thrifter! His motto is Economy, Comfort and Color. So armed with some of his suggestions for thrifting and as we are in need of a couple things for the house, I go out thrifting. </div><div style="text-align: center;">My sister told me yesterday, "Get out of the big city, things are too picked through. Go out to where there's no one...where there are old people. There you will find some good junk." </div><div style="text-align: center;">I had one address for a thrift shop for a smaller town about 20 minutes away. On the way, I came across a Goodwill I'd never visted and did a walk-through, but a Lady there at the art informed me that Goodwill's prices have "gone up!" So I hop in the car and down the street I find an architectural salvage store., but the prices are too high--not what I'm looking for. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Now I head out towards my thrift shop address. Farther and farther out of town I drive until I find this little Women's club with a sign for their thrift shop. Bingo! I park and head over to a jumble of things set out and right off see a perfect big basket with straps and two end red wooden end tables with potential. I hear a pleasant voice with a sweet Germanic accent say, ""Anything you want from this pile you can have. I've got to get rid of it before the next shipment comes." I tell her that I'll take the basket and two red tables and she thinks for a minutes and says, would it be ok if you payed a dollar for each? I told her that would be fine indeed. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Then I enter the little store buzzing with cheerful, healthy white haired ladies. I start looking at all of the plates and glass and right off I see the two green glass salt and pepper shakers. I turn to the lady next to me and say, "These are beautiful!" She says, "Those are depression era glass. Look it has a marking on the bottom." I look round the store and make my way to the cashier desk--the hub of the ladies and they see my depression era green glass shakers for three dollars each and they start buzzing.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lady behind the counter: "Ooo those are a depression era glass..."</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lady in Apron: "I used to have a whole set of that depression era glass ware...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lady shopper peeking over:"I need to go get my other glasses so I can see right now that we're getting into depression era antiques."</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lady behind the counter: "Three dollars for each and two dollars for the tables. That's 8 dollars."</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lady in Apron: "Your getting real antiques today."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjch9QXRqvdpcQmJmIiUd_3tZiHiFbmfISfJ_7oSWUG63jRAI8fdcLRnYq4tvXhTHc3_JH0pcpH9LQBmjg6xgahuVcaEPv0QQcRold99u7u3DRdLaTQeV2wzJu-ozLrvR8DK1L3NbRXfl77/s1600/IMG_5326.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjch9QXRqvdpcQmJmIiUd_3tZiHiFbmfISfJ_7oSWUG63jRAI8fdcLRnYq4tvXhTHc3_JH0pcpH9LQBmjg6xgahuVcaEPv0QQcRold99u7u3DRdLaTQeV2wzJu-ozLrvR8DK1L3NbRXfl77/s400/IMG_5326.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So there you have it. I found two end tables for two dollars. They may need a coat of paint, but for two dollars...a basket and depression era shakers! Don't they look great on the counter? Did Tostadas, <a href="http://thegoodfoodfairy.blogspot.com/2010_09_22_archive.html">Spanish Rice</a> and corn for dinner. What did you all do for dinner tonight?</div>the GOOD FOOD fairyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07797715178901348164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610268562581173787.post-35228604525477753122010-10-05T22:22:00.000-07:002010-10-05T22:22:01.950-07:00MAGIC MOMENT # 3: CIVILIZING BOYS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiywRRjtZqOVm4s-8DcJ8xKuKTSLyEWS90ZOgqIzrg6QdLlrjtgcrIKckzcwWEokXvbJlVxQB_Z85Gbr_G8XSm9lvLBYjxYs6X2Hh-xj0MUUnwr8IawjykuEM-_aW_6grCLXh8XUgPD3eWd/s1600/Appleblossomfairy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiywRRjtZqOVm4s-8DcJ8xKuKTSLyEWS90ZOgqIzrg6QdLlrjtgcrIKckzcwWEokXvbJlVxQB_Z85Gbr_G8XSm9lvLBYjxYs6X2Hh-xj0MUUnwr8IawjykuEM-_aW_6grCLXh8XUgPD3eWd/s400/Appleblossomfairy.jpg" width="281" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">When I had all of my young boys, I thought: I will specialize! I will teach them nobility, kindness, manners, culture, strength and French. In short, I will teach them how to be civilized Gentlemen. I took them to the track. I taught them tennis. We watched The Sound of Music (multiple times). We had our own summer French ecole downstairs. And we cooked. So in our house they each have to...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">an instrument. And Boonie, my big guy, has chosen the cello. A very promising instrument in terms of civilizing and softening the heart. And today was his weekly lesson with his wonderful teacher.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">A cute Charlie Brown character appears in the background, pacified by the music. I am beginning to feel like these wild, crazy boys may have a chance after all at blossoming into fine young gentlemen and it is precisely at this point, when Boonie's wonderful teacher and I are smiling and watching him play with such ease of talent and feeling that he some how manages to...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Blow a stream of spit up and arch it back over his face and hair. If I hadn't seen it myself, I would never believe it were possible. I let out a gasp of horror. He simply said: That is how I cool myself down. His wonderful cello teacher and I looked at each other. What could I say? That's my boy!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">P.S. -- Experiments with Gluten-Free Pizza Crust are moving along. Looking to post tomorrow!</div>the GOOD FOOD fairyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07797715178901348164noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610268562581173787.post-12661664758821755972010-10-04T22:11:00.000-07:002010-10-04T22:11:28.743-07:00PIZZA : FINITO<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhapTRZL9upkqN5oORfPxMBT-v46xkFZLonsA8VQPGgJQrD7hkNCJ-wht6bqtgyoSEInyNGVDHLWVlF2ua8pMqUpYrTf4E46vJEyQAkdofrQ8UA35EtADzTqAu8Y2LzIMeKdmitGzRiAumd/s1600/IMG_5243.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhapTRZL9upkqN5oORfPxMBT-v46xkFZLonsA8VQPGgJQrD7hkNCJ-wht6bqtgyoSEInyNGVDHLWVlF2ua8pMqUpYrTf4E46vJEyQAkdofrQ8UA35EtADzTqAu8Y2LzIMeKdmitGzRiAumd/s400/IMG_5243.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So after a myriad of events this afternoon--most notably would be the cello end pin debacle--we finally ate our homemade gourmet pizza at 7:30 this evening. Early by Spanish standards of course, but a little late by the Good Food fairy's clock. And yes, this is a recipe made with unbleached All-Purpose flour, but tomorrow, we will experiment with gluten-free flours. So here's how it all ended up for today...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I preheated the pizza stone, dusted with cornmeal, in the oven at 450 degrees.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I picked some of summer's last tomatoes for our pizza sauce. Along with some decent store-bought specimens I had in the fridge, the number of tomatoes came to 9.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">So I carved out the stem and...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">scored the bottom with a paring knife and each of the nine tomatoes went for a flying leap into...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">a pot of boiling water for about 20 seconds. Out of the boiling water and into...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">the ice bath. This stops their cooking. Then out again onto the cutting board to be </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">skinned and...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Pour about a tablespoon of olive oil in a large skillet and heat it until shimmering when you tilt the oil around the pan. Add your diced tomatoes, 6 cloves of minced garlic, handful of chopped parsley, 2 times chopped oregano, a few basil leaves, 2 tablespoons of tomato paste, sea salt to taste and red pepper flakes to taste. Reduce over medium high heat, stirring frequently, until...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">the tomatoes break down. Now, if you or those you feed do not like chunks...if chunks induce a gag reflex among those you feed, then throw it in the blender and hit puree for a couple seconds. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I split my dough into two balls and rolled out one pizza pie for the kids and one for the grown-ups.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sliced crimini mushrooms, a generous sprinkling of red pepper flakes and pieces of uncured (no-nitrate) black forest ham for the grown - up pizza and...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">cheese for the kids. Two kinds of cheese for both pizzas...we like monterey jack and sharp cheddar with a little parmigiano reggiano on top.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Onto the lower rack it goes for about 8 to 10 minutes depending on how high you pile your toppings.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Pizza is served. Tune in tomorrow when I complete the pizza saga by experimenting with gluten-free dough. Same sauce, same toppings or whatever we have in the fridge tomorrow!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Until tomorrow...</div>the GOOD FOOD fairyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07797715178901348164noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610268562581173787.post-84287003842623674302010-10-04T14:22:00.000-07:002010-10-04T14:22:27.411-07:00PIZZA in PROGRESS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgknn4It4nu-somIsvLdlg9fcX_s43ISNnCC4Eqe718Bz822P2dVxKr4oEpwt1o0tx2Zvj9ei-pH2taRolS7ACIA6l-T7US90qgtxpxDhBtqVvhhTEU7GulRnp7wJVpxvNy67QQ3xpuoi27/s1600/IMG_5114.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgknn4It4nu-somIsvLdlg9fcX_s43ISNnCC4Eqe718Bz822P2dVxKr4oEpwt1o0tx2Zvj9ei-pH2taRolS7ACIA6l-T7US90qgtxpxDhBtqVvhhTEU7GulRnp7wJVpxvNy67QQ3xpuoi27/s400/IMG_5114.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Warm 1 1/3 cups water (about 315 ml.) to bath water temperature. About 35 seconds in the microwave.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Add a packet of active dry yeast (2 1/4 teaspoons) to the warmed water and...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">a tablespoon of honey. The yeast needs food! Set this aside for 5 - 10 minutes. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Fit your mixer with the kneading hook attachment. Or: rub your joints and prepare to knead.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Add 3 & 1/2 to 3 & 3/4 cups of flour to a bowl. Fluff the flour with your measuring cup before you scoop. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Throw in a tablespoon of salt and...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">2 tablespoons of olive oil. Time to check the yeast.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Awesome. Our yeast water is foamy and smells like bread. This is called <a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_13896_proof-yeast.html">proofing yeast</a>. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Mix by hand or by machine (on low) until combined. Then knead by hand (8 minutes) or by mixer with dough hook ( 8 minutes). Until the dough is...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Smooth and elastic. If dough's too sticky, knead in 1 /4 cup of flour. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Transfer the dough to a bowl coated with olive oil. Roll that dough ball around to coat with oil as well. Cover with plastic wrap and since today, Monday, is a Day of Laundry...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I am going to let the dough rise on the dryer which is tumbling clothes dry at the moment. Dough likes a draft-free place like our garage and it really likes gyrating on that warm dryer. An hour and a half later...</div><div style="text-align: center;">.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiocmEakc0Zx3o3cjKQ2ac8J_grucjfCWa-LXyLrYUMOau0yd_eW84WhCD12G5Fy1L42IoH-6S5i_wBEhEfFh2rwnIHiV3ANkHXZYxDLKmqfU9qGmGNVjEbF1AW2caelCmhBIvhVMgQ8E4c/s1600/IMG_5181.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiocmEakc0Zx3o3cjKQ2ac8J_grucjfCWa-LXyLrYUMOau0yd_eW84WhCD12G5Fy1L42IoH-6S5i_wBEhEfFh2rwnIHiV3ANkHXZYxDLKmqfU9qGmGNVjEbF1AW2caelCmhBIvhVMgQ8E4c/s400/IMG_5181.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The dough is ready to be kneaded a few more times, wrapped in plastic wrap and ...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">put in the fridge. Since I have six hours until dinner, the cool fridge will store the dough safely and slow the yeast down from rising out of control.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Time to pick up the boys...sauce is coming up next!</div>the GOOD FOOD fairyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07797715178901348164noreply@blogger.com0