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The redoubtable terriblelynne and I had a Fantastic French Food Frolic today, resulting in this:



Which, in French, means "Chicken with Wine" or something.

It took about five hours of cooking, with her doing most of the major work and me helping with small tasks. I'm congenitally incapable of taking that long to cook anything, so it was a real treat to experience the whole process, particularly because I didn't actually have to do it. And the result was fantastic!

The best part is that there are leftovers, which I'll be eating for lunch tomorrow.

Thanks terriblelynne!

The finitude of this lemon-ginger pound cake is completely unacceptable.

*urp*

Mixing up the oft-used roasted asparagus recipe from the The New Best Recipe and my Mom's home cooking, I created the following:

5 sticks asparagus, hard ends broken off and discarded
3 slices bacon
2 medium Yukon Gold potatoes
1 cup cauliflower
3 tbsp butter
1/3 cup breadcrumbs

Cut the potatoes and cauliflower into 1-inch pieces.

Heat a steamer to boiling, then reduce heat to low and add potatoes. Cook potatoes for 7 minutes.

Meanwhile, pre-heat oven on broil, with rack 2-3 inches below the heating elements. In a rimmed baking pan, alternate the asparagus and bacon. Sprinkle asparagus with salt.

Add cauliflower to steamer.

Place bacon and asparagus into oven. Bake until bacon is crisp, about 10 minutes, rotating asparagus half-way through.

Meanwhile, melt the butter and mix it with the breadcrumbs. Place everything on a single plate. Pour breadcrumb sauce over cauliflower. Mash bacon into potatoes, then pour reduced bacon fat over potatoes and asparagus. Serve immediately, or later if you like your food cold and kind-of sad.

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This is the vanilla ice cream recipe from the New Best Recipe with 1/3 cup(too much! bbbbbzZZZZZZZZZZzzZZZZZZZ!) matcha added in. While not as physically dangerous as the chocolate, it's arguably *more* wiring, and tastes *fantastic*. I think for the next round we'll try with 1/4 cup matcha, and make some mochi to make green tea mochi ice cream.

...lurking at the back of the counter, just out of Puggle range?

...with food sensitivities, but I guess my dinner of shell pasta in fresh local tomato, garlic, olive oil and feta sauce followed by local oranges in vanilla-agave nectar whipped cream and xylitol raspberry coulis indicates that life isn't *completely* over.



Urp.

...seem to think this is somehow sexual.



Those people would likely find The New Best Recipe multiply orgasmic.
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