Ooh, biscuits! Again?

I know, I’m kind of sick of looking at them too, but we had friends over for dinner and these biscuits are just SUCH a crowd pleaser, I couldn’t deny my guests this opportunity – right? Right, I thought so.

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Wait, where’d it go?

I know, I wish had a more interesting picture for today, but alas, this meal was devoured before it even occurred to me to take pictures! Here, butter is browning in the cast iron skillet, almost ready for a dash of balsamic vinegar to make it blackened butter. This amazing concoction would top crispy sauteed [...]

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Mmm biscuits!

I. Love. These. Biscuits. Admittedly, they take an unbelievable amount of cheese and require the use of a nifty pastry cutter, but da-amn, they are amazing. Crispy-crunchy on the outside, soft and gooey (with cheese, not dough!) on the inside- wow. Cooked in the cast iron, they are just amazing. They use sharp cheddar, goats [...]

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Bureaucracy at its best.

Went to class, weekly lunch date with Chester, then took the bus downtown to pick up my expedited passport. $160 for a new passport, churned out in 3 days, all because the art advisor who is coordinating our Rome program couldn’t tell us upon our acceptance in early December that we would need to turn [...]

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Southern tribute

Our GF version of Curtis Stone’s Cheesy Biscuits made with Jules GF flour to fantastic success. With goat’s cheese, cheddar, and parmesan/asiago, these are seriously cheesy buttermilk biscuits and they are excellent. Cooked in the cast iron skillet, they are crispy on the outside/bottom/sides, but warm and fluffy on the inside – what more can [...]

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“I don’t complain when you practice your violin at 3 AM..”

Woke up kind of late this morning, hung around the house, made lunch; boyfriend picked me up and we dashed up to Lincoln Square to see the new Sherlock Holmes movie at 3:40– it sold out while we were waiting in line to buy tickets. UGH. Back home, we decided to forego the 7:00 and [...]

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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! We were going to go see Sherlock Holmes and get Chinese food (as per Jewish-Christmas tradition…), but P.F. Chang’s was closed and we couldn’t motivate ourselves to leaves the house. Sad, but true. We bummed around the house, he taught me how to play Euchre, made progress in Halo, etc. I love holidays. [...]

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DUTCH BABIES

Boyfriend showed me how to make Dutch babies (seen above and plated below), modified using Jules gluten free flour. They are unbelievably delicious. There is more butter in this recipe than you would ever want to know, but they’re amazing (with that much butter, how could they not, right?) They’re fluffy, kind of custardy at [...]

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20 pages? READYSTEADYGO!

Seen above, multi-colored pearl onions being fried with bacon in the cast iron skillet, on their way to becoming beef stew (which was delicious and perfectly combined with Monday’s sweet potato/swiss chard gratin leftovers). A complete (albeit rough) draft of my landscape paper comparing Villa Giulia and Villa d’Este is due tomorrow. Twenty (20) pages, [...]

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Sprout me!

Ran around doing errands today, still not doing so well walking around… Went to Trader Joe’s and found Brussels sprouts on the stalk! How cool is that? They’re sweet and fresh and delicious and I could barely wait to come home and cook ‘em up vis-a-vis White on Rice Couple’s recipe for Brussels sprouts baked [...]

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