Archive for the ‘Cooking’ Category

Wild Mushroom & Napa Cabbage Soup

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Picked this up about two weeks ago at the farmers market.  This is by Chef Tom Stevens of the Cypress Grille. Ingredients: 3 tsp Canola Oil 1/2 Lb Sliced Bacon 1 cup small diced Leeks 1 cup small diced Fennel 1/2 cup Diced Carrots 1/2 cup Small Diced Celery 2 Tbsp Thinly Sliced Garlic 2 Tbsp Minced Ginger 1 cup ...

Red Beets and Orange Salad

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

Another Saturday and another trip to the farmers market.  This week I was lucky enough to get out there in time to catch the cooking demo. This week Chef Mark Arriola from SoGo demoed a Red Beet and Orange Salad. (Note: I took some liberty in re-wording some of the steps or ...

Banana Bread

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

So I realized that I've been going to the Pearl Brewery Farmers Market for the better part of 2009.  I've seemed to amass a bounty of recipes from the cooking demos given on Saturday mornings. That gave me the idea to post them here so I can get rid of all ...

And now, more shirts…and stuff

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

So this past week left me with not a lot of time to parse through the numerous shirts that caught my eye. Tees For the days I feel on top of my game. ;-) Kallusive has always struck me as awesome. I had the "Protector of the Kode" a few weeks ago. On the ...

Baklava

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

So I made Baklava for the Superbowl pot luck at work recently. I used the recipe off of a AllRecipes. I will include the recipe here for the sake of completeness. Ingredients 1 (16 ounce) package phyllo dough 1 pound chopped nuts 1 cup butter 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 cup water ...