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July 6, 2010 By cheryl

Green (Deviled) Eggs & Ham


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If it’s been a little quiet on this blog, well, there’s been good reason.

There is the issue of this book, you see. A book editing deadline, to be precise. After following my various exploits while traveling and researching “A Tiger In The Kitchen,” you’ll be patient, I hope, as I wade my way to the finish line later this month. The blog, with all its death-defying bread baking, restaurant explorations and virtual lunch dates, will be back to normal in no time, I promise.

In the meantime, however, there are things that can prod the bloggery back to life.

In this case, that would be a carton of green eggs, large, pert and in the loveliest shade of pale sage. The moment they were spied, said carton was whisked off the table at the Brooklyn Heights farmers market and ferried home for further inspection.

What to do with these green eggs? I immediately thought of the deviled eggs a talented artist friend, Moses Hoskins, recently served up for lunch …

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Filed Under: Poultry, Recipes, Snacks Tagged With: Araucana, Artist, Brooklyn Heights Farmers Market, Brown mustard, Cayenne pepper, Chickens, Chile, Curry powder, Deviled eggs, Dr. Seuss, Food Network, Gordon Dahlquist, Green eggs, Ground pepper, Ham, Iowa, Mayonnaise, Moses Hoskins, New York City, OK Harris, Poultry, Relish, Rexcroft Farm, Salt, Sam, Soy sauce

August 14, 2009 By cheryl

Focaccia: Where There's Smoke …


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This is a story that has a happy ending.

(See above.)

What happened before that ending, however, was not quite so happy.

There was the steady stream of smoke spewing from the oven; there was the coughing. And then there was the glowering from Mike (who was doing the coughing). 

But there was a lesson learned while making focaccia for the Bread Baker’s Apprentice challenge this week:

Don’t be so greedy — use less olive oil.

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Filed Under: Baking, Bread, Italian Tagged With: Black pepper, BLT, Cayenne pepper, Fennel seeds, Focaccia, Garlic, Olive Oil, Onion powder, Paprika, Sea Salt

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