Food, Cooking, Recipes

updated 12-07-2006

This is an Index post, where I link to my recipes and other food writing, in Oasis of Sanity, and elsewhere. I'll update it whenever there's something to add, or, more realistically, whenever I get around to it.

On Oasis of Sanity

Casey's Seafood Soup
Crab-Stuffed Mushrooms
Buttercream frosting that's good with organic shortening (link)
Mom's Blueberry Cake
Magic Chicken
Banana Bread
Italian Herb Bread
Crockpot Beef Stew with Guinness
My Favorite Mushrooms
Spinach & Chicken Chowder
Lemon Squares and processing lemons for the freezer
Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole
Tiny Batch Chicken Stock and Easy Chicken Soup
Low Carb Cinnamon Shortbread
Low Carb Apple-Orange Bread
Easiest Rice Pilaf

Taste:
Anjou pear
Good coffee
On tiramisu


That's Just Not Right:
breakfast edition (scrambled eggs)
supper edition (refrigerated potatoes)
You're not going to throw that out, are you?, ruminations on making chicken stock

Non-edible recipes...
Cut Flower food
Cooked Playdough

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Make It Low Carb columns/recipes on Low Carb Luxury

2004
Cheese Crunchies DD loves these for an afternoon snack.
Coffee Drinks Step away from the Frappucino!
Stock up -- shop so you can cook! You can't eat if you don't shop.
"Breakfast" aka the "lc cheese danish" You know you're sick of eggs...
Strawberry Shortcake
Spicy Pepper Beef from a Martin Yan recipe
Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars, plus general advice on packing school lunches and snacks
Astonishing Chocolate Cake
LowER Carb Fruitcake based on Alton Brown's Free Range Fruitcake

2005
Apple Pancake LID compatible, and delicious, too
The Bread Pudding Repair method salvaging baking projects that have gone awry
Gravies & Sauces using on-traditional, low-carb thickeners
Blueberry Crumb Cake the LC variation of my mom's blueberry cake
Ganache This recipe totally rocks.
Lemonade Muffins taste like summer.
Eggs Almost Blackstone when you need to impress someone
Chocolate Banana Bundt Cake another astonishing chocolate cake
Cranberry Cheesecake Tart adapted from Gourmet magazine's Cranberry Eggnog Tart
Date Nut Bread uses just a few dates, and yet the flavor permeates the entire loaf.

2006
DH's Power Oatmeal all the good taste of oatmeal and a serious amount of protein to start off your day the right way
Low Carb Lemon Squares -- just as delicious as the regular ones, but a lot better for you. Almost as good as pie for breakfast.
The Big Production: Low Carb Sacher Torte -- dense chocolate cake, apricot filling, rich chocolate glaze... perfection.
Savory Ricotta Pie: the perfect lunch!
Chocolate Crepes, a recipe I adapted from Nina Camic.
Let's Do Lunch, lunch ideas from readers
Seven Jewel Turkey Salad, a low carb version of the recipe I originally posted on Epinions
Green and Crunchy Kung Pao Chicken "nouvelle" Chinese for low carbers
Basic Chili, made low carb by substituting green beans for kidney beans. Sounds weird, but don't knock it until you've tried it!
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies from a recipe long thought lost
Cranberry Raisin Carrot Bread
Low Carb Rugelach, fantastic, but not for low carb purists or nutrition nazis, as AP flour is an ingredient.

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On Epinions.com
Grilled salmon and asparagus
7 Jewel Turkey Salad from the late Woven Hose Cafe, RIP.
Frittata Chicken Marengo based on our favorite Bertucci's pizza