Anna | July 30, 2005
Cardamom is expensive, so being the budget wizard that I am; I decided I’d buy just a small amount at the bulk bin at Whole Foods Downtown. $96 later, I was back home with two tablespoons of cardamom and a hodgepodge of other items from what I might call a transcendental shopping experience.
I thought I’d [...]
Anna | July 30, 2005
This is the method I use for making Thai chicken skewers. It was adapted from a popular recipe on allrecipes.com.
Chicken Satay
2 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/2 cup lemon or lime juice
1 tablespoon brown sugar
2 tablespoons curry powder
2 cloves garlic — chopped
1 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
6 skinless — boneless chicken breast halves – cubed
In [...]
Anna | July 28, 2005
One very vivid sense memory from my preschool days was tasting a Fig Newton for the first time and discovering the filling was fig — not the chocolate fudge it appeared to be. While I was disappointed the filling was not chocolate, I found flavor of the fig strangely exotic. Naturally, I liked [...]
Anna | July 27, 2005
These are pretty good if you don’t mind the texture of reduced fat cookies. The malt flavors pretty strong, which is a good thing.
Chocolate Malted Cookies from Cooking Light
1 cup packed brown sugar
6 tablespoons malted milk powder (such as Carnation)
5 tablespoons butter — softened
3 tablespoons chocolate syrup
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 large egg
2 cups all-purpose [...]
Anna | July 26, 2005
This recipe was adapted from Rebecca Rather’s. She likes using jelly with her cookies, but I don’t. I never liked it much on peanut butter sandwiches either. Which is not to say I don’t like jelly….I think I like it more with things like pork.
Peanut Butter Cookies With Honey Roasted Peanuts (and [...]