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Croissants Take 2

I have a TON of dough left, so 2 weeks ago, I tried my hand at making these suckers, again. As I mentioned, this is from the batch that didn’t rise. Still, with enough butter, I thought they might be worth eating. I folded them again and then rolled the dough out [...]

Cooking Green Curry at Kris Saebo’s

Kris suggested that we come over and Ryan make his famous green curry. It’s surprising how many people struggle with it, when all it is is fish sauce flavoring and palm sugar. That’s it. That’s the secret. Anyway, it was a great opportunity to see the latest addition. Little Lulu! Kris saved [...]

Mom’s

So, we went to go visit my mother. We try to make the trip once a week and of course, we get fed. She puts out SO much food. It’s almost unbelievable. For example, this one particular time, she put out, from left to right: Oden with variety of fish cakes, konyaku [...]

First foray with the Momofuku cookbook

One of Ryan’s Christmas presents was a Momofuku cookbook (WSJ Review) given to him (or should I say us, ;) heh) by his sister Tracy. It’s an awesome punch of a book filled with the history of how his ramen shop went from being a little failing place to the entry way of [...]

Garlic Soup

Prompted by @sarahcarter on twitter, I made Richard Olney’s Garlic Soup recipe found on 101 Cookbooks.

12+ chopped garlic handful of dried bay leaves couple of shakes of the dried sage (yeah… real scientific here) 3-4 sprigs of thyme teaspoon of sea salt to start 1 whole egg + 2 yolks [...]