October 2006 – Page 3

October 11, 2006

Alton Brown's Individual Upside-Down (Nectarine) Cakes

Well, in our case, right-side up. Only because I forgot to invert them. They smelled sooo good. You would understand, really, had you been here. On Good Eats, Alton Brown used peaches, I used white nectarines. I bet you could also use apples or pears...even pineapple. Ha! The cake part seeps down, even though there …

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October 10, 2006

Hello Fall! Rosemary & White Bean Soup

Well, we're back from Ashland (where it's very cold at night) and had a great time. I really need to recap some of our recent trips and out of town restaurants and all of that. Port Townsend, WA, Livingston, MT and Ashland, OR all coming soon. But today it's soup. In the Fall and Winter, …

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October 4, 2006

(Not a Hotdish) It's Chicken Fajita Casserole

I am going to betray my Midwest roots here by offering a casserole for today's post. A chicken-fajita casserole but a casserole none the less. Do I call it a hotdish? Hell no. I only went to college in Minnesota -- I'm not from there. jwa wanted tacos. I wanted to put something in the …

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October 3, 2006

Fun with Fish & Raw Egg: Halibut Cakes & Tartar Sauce

Do you like to live life a little dangerously? How about making your own mayonnaise/tartar sauce and buying $15 worth of halibut for a little kitchen experiment? Sound like fun? Well, it was -- but only because these turned out deee-licious! It could have been deeee-sasterous! Okay, I am done now. I think I was …

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October 2, 2006

A Nice Fall Soup with Tortellini, Tomato & Arugula

This meal came about, as some do, by just poking around the refrigerator and the cabinets to see what we had. What did we have? Well, there was some chicken stock and canned tomatoes in the cabinet, porcini tortellini from Trader Joes in the fridge and fresh basil out in the garden. Tortellini are so …

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