German Potato Salad

This is less a recipe, than a suggestion. Because I don't measure often when I cook. Only when I bake.

But with
4 medium red potatoes
~ 3 tablespoons mayo
~2 tablespoons vinegar
~ 2 tablespoons whole seed mustard
4 slices of bacon, cooked and chopped. Using an ulu would have made this much easier, or if I had cooked it crispier.

Lemon Raspberry Muffins

Muffins the second recipe
Smitten Kitchen- Lemon Raspberry Muffins
SO have you ever started making a recipe, you know measuring out the sugar and butter and creaming them... then realizing you are missing an ingredient? I do, constantly. This time it was eggs. Of course I had started baking at 10:40, so too late to go them. If I had been cooking, not baking or if I had it I would have used apple sauce. But that isn't really abundant in my kitchen. So I used a oil to water ratio of 1:2 tablespoons, for a total of 3 tablespoons, apparently the weight of an egg. Between this substitution and my lack of a mixer to go the creaming, I will give these muffins the benefit of the doubt regarding the texture and make them again. They were a little dense with a thick crumb.

My inexperience caused me to push the raspberries too far into the dough so they became little pits, which is still cute and delicious.

The real downfall of this recipe is that I skinned 2 lemons for peel, and didn't use any of the juice. I want more lemony-ness!




Look how puffy and happy they look then...

Summer 2010

I abandon blogging when my life is going smoothly apparently.





My favorite to thing to come from New Haven CT. I was trying to figure out who they remind me of...


My summer sound track-


and now my summer dance song


food updates soon, I have been doing alot of baking and cooking delicious things.