Balsamic Glazed Chicken with Roasted Winter Roots


Sorry for the delay in posting, things are always a roller coaster in my life. Here is my most recent favorite, Balsamic glazed chicken! This recipe is so, so easy. I can't stress enough how perfect it is on a cold night in with the babe. The Chicken is Split or butterflied before Roasting giving it fast baking time as well as the option to cook either on the grill or in a crock pot as well. The vegetables, or winter roots, are roasted in the pan under the chicken, absorbing all the juicy goodness and making them perfectly seasoned and tender.

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Potato and Green Onion Bread


Stoked! I haven't made bread in ages and this weekend I sat by myself in and empty house with a steady supply of Mai Tai's and Dexter, season 2. What better way to spend a day baking bread than that? This bread is pretty fantastic and I believe that if I were a lover of Jalapeno's they would make a harmonic connection in this recipe. I, however, am a pussy when it comes to spice and subbed them out.
adapted from Toxo's Bread; Ultimate Man Bread.

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Sierra Nevada Beer Cheese Soup



I haven't had a real working kitchen in many months, what with the shallow sink, small oven and about 5 square feet of walking space and counter space (hence my lack of posting. Sorry dudes!) Recently I had the opportunity to cook in a real functional working kitchen! It's been on and off rain or snow lately and I just really wanted some comforting hearty soup. I went to full sails brewery and had the most amazing porter cheddar soup and have been searching since October all over the internet for a replica. Unfortunately all that was available to me was Sierra Nevada's IPA, which isn't as dark or sweet as a porter. However, with proper care and cooking techniques the soup came out amazing and I didn't experience a strong bitter taste that usually accompany cooking with a beer so hoppy as an IPA.

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Review; Pine state Biscuits



PINE STATE BISCUITS; 3640 SE Belmont Street Portland, OR 97214 (503) 236-3346

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three cheese bacon and cherry tomatoes quiche


yummmyyy. Since I was a little girl I remember my mother or my grandmother sometimes making quiche and within minutes the entire pie was devoured. I have always held a huge place in my heart for cheese, specifically aged nutty and earthy cheeses, and this warm homey and comforting dish always makes me feel like a happy chubby little kid again. When great cheese is combined with other great corresponding ingredients, it creates a melody in my tummy that has me singing :3

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totoro cookies


Me and my boyfriend came home from disneyland yesterday and had started talking about how cute it would be to make some sugar cookies that kept up that feeling we got while walking around the park. At first we struggled with ideas on what we would want to make. Alice in wonderland and pirates of the Caribbean cookies are fine and all, but we wanted something that would be so cute that when you looked at it you just wanted to punch it. Anyways, we settled on some kawaii totoro cookies with umbrellas and soot sprites.

  • cool the dough for at least an hour before you do anything serious with it.
  • Roll it out as evenly as possible. 1/8 of an inch thick is a pretty good size.
  • If you arn't using parts of the dough, Refrigerate it!
  • To make your own shapes, start by drawing your design on a piece of paper, then cut out that design leaving about 1/10th of an inch of space around it. On chilled flat dough, lay your design not pressing too hard, and cut out with a sharp serrated knife around it. Transfer to a baking sheet using a spatula so it doesn't loose shape. If you find your cookies are sticking and hard to transfer, roll your dough out on parchment paper instead so you can just skip the spatula part and bake.
  • Smooth out doughs edges with a moist finger.
  • If your designs are bigger than 4inch, check on them after 15 min of baking, then again every 5 minutes. Take out of oven just before edges start to brown, or when the dough is slightly firm to touch.

Here is the recipe I used for the icing and cookies.

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German Chocolate Brownie Mouse Cakes

Brownie One Person cakes with chocolate mouse and vanilla butter-cream frosting. Happy birthday skye!

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Sugar Cookies


I have never been a baker. It takes timing, knowledge, patience and creative problem solving on the spot with a gentle hand. I always over work dough, over flour and burn. So when I decided I would attempt to make a cookie as a gift for Christmas, I was a little scared at the outcome. Being an explorer at heart I figured " what the fuck" and went with a classic. The sugar cookie. I knew only one person could tell me truly how to do it best...

I used Martha Stewart's Recipe, Ideal Sugar Cookies.
Martha has always been my hero, despite what some people say about her. Now I know she is a stuck up bitch, but she is a Boss Bitch and she knows how to bake. Hell, straight out of jail she was back on t.v making 'green brownies' with the rap icon Snoop Dogg. If that isn't keeping it real, I don't know what is.

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ultimate grilled cheese!

Remember that fancy pesto walnut mayo spread? I didn't lie when I said it would make the ultimate grilled cheese. Okay so this is probably abusing the fact that I said walnuts are healthy by suffocating them in extra sharp cheddar cheese but...
look at that ^
holy shit! isn't that tasty!?

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double chocolate Mouse With Mint Whipped Cream


So, sense I got my kitchenaid mixer early, I obviously just HAD to use it. To see if it worked... Anyways, it's probably the most beautiful piece of equipment my peasant hands will ever have the grace of using and I fucking love it. Whipped cream fluffed up in seconds with high airy peaks, Cookie dough batter perfectly incorporated and creamed butter the most velvety I have ever seen. <33 style="font-size:130%;">Chocolate Mouse:
4oz extra dark bittersweet chocolate
1 cup heavy whipping cream
2 tbsp granulated sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 tbsp butter, chopped
3 eggs, without the yolks (yellow stuff)


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