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April 5, 2010

Easy Mole Sauce (and what to do with it)

I once spent the better part of a day making a Rick Bayless Mole Sauce recipe. Hours and hours and the end result was...fine. Which I'm pretty sure had much more to do with my execution than the recipe, but there it is. I wasn't in love with it and jwa actually didn't like it. …

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March 31, 2010

Marinated Salmon with Moroccan Chickpea Salad

Here's a recipe that I remember making multiple times last Summer. Why didn't I blog about it sooner? Who knows, but here it is now. I made this last week and instantly remembered why I made it so much last year. It's really good. I love the salad. But, keep in mind, imho, the salad …

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March 24, 2010

Italian Bread with Sesame Seeds

Here's another breadmaking experiment that turned out pretty well! I've heard that King Arthur AP Flour has a bit more of a Bread Flour quality to it than other brands of AP flour, so since I was using Trader Joe's AP flour, I added about a 1/2 cup bread flour to the dough flour. That's …

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March 22, 2010

Comune Accanto for Brunch

2838 SE Belmont St. Portland, OR 97214 (503) 235-4900 We finally tried Accanto for brunch Sunday and wow, we both really enjoyed it. It's the place on the corner of 28th & Belmont, right next to the new Genoa. Actually, Accanto is to Genoa, like Cafe Castagna is to Castagna, I believe. Anyway, I love …

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March 16, 2010

Side Dishes! Side Dishes! Cracked Potatoes & Asparagus with Horseradish Butter

These two dishes were the rest of that really good mahi mahi meal in the last post. I had seen the cracked potatoes a couple of years ago and always meant to try them but then promptly forgot about it. Glad it didn't stay forgotten -- so good! For four people the original recipe called …

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