Posts under ‘Tild's Test Kitchen’

Weekend Brunch Eggbake
Spray inside bottom and sides of an 11×7 glass baking dish with cooking oil spray.
Put in 1 and 1/2 cups salad croutons or toasted breadcubes.
Add 1 can of cut asparagus spears, drained.
Add 1 and 1/2 cups shredded monterey jack or colby-jack cheese.
In a medium size bowl, beat 6 eggs.
Add 1 and 1/2 cups [...]

Or:
For Scandie Girls Who Have Considered The 33 Oz Jar From Costco When The 12 Oz Jar From Rainbow Is Enuf
(May Ntozake Shange forgive me)
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1) Make strawberry bread.
STRAWBERRY BREAD
1 cup butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. lemon juice or 1/4 tsp. lemon extract
4 eggs
1 tsp. soda, dissolved in 1/2 cup sour cream
3 [...]

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Eeek! Full frontal fridge shot!
Welcome back to my kitchen, boys and girls. This is a picture of my refrigerator. On this New Year’s Day in the bright shining new year of 2007, once again I’m back to babble on and on about stuff nobody ever heard of [...]

And They Cook, Too

A Blogger Cookbook Fundraiser for
Doctors Without Borders
Compiled and edited by Ginger Mayerson and Kathy Flake
Illustrations by Carol Colin and Robin Riggs
Cover Graphics by Tild~

From the introduction:
Last year on October 8 an earthquake, measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale, hit Kashmir, the northern part of Pakistan. Being a native Californian, I know [...]

Or:  How I spent my weekend
(burning my fingertips slaving over a hot krumkake iron and what thanks do I get, huh? Huh?)
No, I’ll never be Rachel Ray, grinning maniacally out at you from every box of Triscuits on every shelf at every grocery store in the universe
(not to mention haunting the Wege’s nightmares with her [...]

Here’s three dishes I made this weekend strictly from leftovers and ingredients I had on hand
(mainly because going to a grocery store even once between last Wednesday and today would have driven me to ritual seppuku)
Apparently I’m a culinary genius; they all turned out pretty good.
Brunch Egg Bake

8″ square glass baking dish
Spray inside of baking [...]

Hmmm. What to make for breakfast/brunch when you don’t have a lot of things on hand and you don’t feel like going to the store?
Ahh. Here we go. I’ve got all the ingredients for this.
…I hope it’s good!
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Cowboy Coffee Cake
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups brown sugar
2/3 cup shortening
2 tsp baking [...]

Okay, Soren — here at last is the long-promised rhubarb wine post!
Cutting directly to the chase [no passing Go, no collecting $200] … I liked it. A lot. Much to my surprise. I was expecting a sweet, cough-syrupy abomination like the elderberry “wine” — and I use the term extremely [...]

(As I mentioned in the previous post, this recipe is from a Moosewood restaurant cookbook.)
1 1/2 cups whole-wheat bread cubes
3 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 medium garlic cloves, minced
1 cup chopped leeks
2 cups sliced mushrooms
1 tablespoon fresh dill (1 teaspoon dried)
Salt and pepper to taste
4 ounces cream cheese in 1/2 inch cubes
1 1/2 cups [...]