Homemade pasta with lemon basil and tarragon rolled between it. Dinner is going to be delicious!
Tag: food
Pre-moving Sushi
Had a much needed sushi dinner before moving across town tomorrow. Moving is the best excuse to be lazy and not cook.
Brownies
My friend Cam (who’s headed to Spain for six months) made delicious brownies with a caramel sauce. Yum!
Chicken Fried Bacon
Yesterday I went out to Slappy Cakes for breakfast with some friends. I got pancakes but couldn’t resist the chicken fried bacon as well. It even had a light maple glaze over it all. Absolutely delicious!
What VegNews should do now that they’ve been called out on using REAL meat stock photos. Or, why avoiding transparency always catches up to you in the end. Seriously, Photoshopping meat products to look vegan?! Sounds like an Onion article.
Chocolate cake!
The benefits of having a good friend who works at Sur La Table. 2 pounds of ganache, a chocolate cake, with frozen raspberries from this summer equals a delicious treat. Thank you Cam!
How to Make Oatmeal . . . Wrong. McDonald’s has introduced oatmeal at their “restaurants” now. Too bad it isn’t actually oatmeal and includes more calories than a hamburger.
Pumpkin muffins to ring in fall
It has quickly turned to fall here in Portland. Leaves are falling, it’s below 50 degrees, and getting dark at 4:00 p.m. All of this meant only one thing: pumpkin muffins and chai.
Recipe
Pretty easy to make and are actually gluten-free. Props to Leah for a delicious recipe.
- 1 cup oat flour
- 3/4 cup gluten-free flour
- 1.5 teaspoons baking powder
- 1.5 cup canned, solid-packed pumpkin
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1.5 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
Put oven rack in middle position and preheat to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease muffin tin.
Combine flours and baking powder in a medium bowl. Whisk together pumpkin, oil, eggs, spices, sugar, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl until smooth. Add flour mixture to pumpkin until just combined.
Divide batter among muffin tins (each should be about 3/4 full). Bake until puffed and golden brown (about 30-35 minutes). Makes 12.
Making Lunch a Social Networking Game
Combining fast food with social gaming is fascinating, particularly giving restaurant credit as a measure of successful burger ideas. The Bits Blog explains 4Food:
Here’s how it works: I create a burger, call it “The Bits Burger” and broadcast it to Twitter or Facebook. Each time someone orders my special creation, I get 25 cents credit in the restaurant and my burger rises up the leaderboard. The more customers order my burger, the higher it goes and the more credits I get, until I’m eating free.