New Year’s Day dinner menu included: Peking Duck (marinated overnight in local Hood Canal Brewery Agate Pass Amber) Stir-Fried Broccoli Rice Almond Jelly, Lychees and Fortune Cookies Asian Pear Wine Notes: One college friend gave me the Peking Duck recipe years ago, and another provided the Almond Jelly recipe when we were living in RI. […]
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Our 2005 New Year’s Day dinner
January 6th, 2005 · No Comments
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Homemade marzipan
December 31st, 2004 · 3 Comments
As requested (by Katherine in the comments to this blog entry), I’ve posted a picture of our homemade marzipan from Christmas. This was the first year we tried to make our own although I’ve thought about it for years. I grew up enjoying marzipan bought from the local grocery store bakery (Safeway) however marzipan fruits […]
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Ham brined in Coca-Cola
December 29th, 2004 · No Comments
Some may be wondering what happened to me this Christmas. I don’t think I am quite myself. As evidence, I present our Christmas masterpiece: Ham brined in Coca-Cola. A few weeks ago I heard someone mention she had tried it and I became curious. I found this recipe on the Internet and didn’t plan to […]
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Turkey cookies
November 28th, 2004 · 1 Comment
While not professionally-decorated turkey cake, I thought that these homemade turkey cookies were fun. The girls and I each drew and cut our own turkey design on paper to use to shape the dough. Then we decorated with an assortment of sprinkles, chocolate chips and almond slices. No meat products were employed in the making […]
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Brining and blogging
November 28th, 2004 · Comments Off on Brining and blogging
Friday I wanted to try to write some posts but I ended up spending most of the day brining a turkey. The bird had been a bargain and a bit of an impulse buy. On Thursday we went to visit friends who hosted and cooked most of the meal. But in the grocery store on […]
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