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own sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 1 4 cups all purpose flour 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp salt 1 bag butterscotch chips handful of pine nuts 2 big pinches sea salt 1 cream butter and sugar together until fluffy add eggs beating well after each egg add vanilla 2 sift together the flour baking soda and salt add to butter mixture 3 stir in butterscotch chips 4 toast pine nuts in small skillet until barely turning brown and fragrant toss with sea salt stir into cookie dough 5 bake for 9 10 minutes or until edges are golden brown cool on racks posted by catherine wilkinson at 3 43 pm 6 comments labels cookies kitchens pot shards february 25 2009 is fabio on facebook my muse has blown a fuse i continue to choose to play 12 games of spider solitaire in a row over cooking delights like say quail leg confit with lemon and basil marmalade my food mojo has gone to hell in a hand basket straight to suduku hell no actually my writing mojo has done a fabio face plant and it doesn t even have a charming italian accent to fall back on the food part of my life continues at breakneck and gluttonous speed i still eat and think about food all the time it s just that i ve just lost some of my interest in taking pictures of it and writing about it all the live long day maybe it s this process i m in of designing and building a house i m a very busy artistic angsty person with all the design and building books i ve ordered from amazon used of course i mean you can get the most gorgeous design book measuring about about 3 feet by 5 feet weighing 78 pounds for something like 42 cents i have dozens so many ideas this is will be either the most beautifully unique house ever built in the entire world or it will look like the monkey tree house at disney world yes i am very busy with this house business then of course i have to do facebook i have to send people cool applications and pokes hugs and raise money for blind hamsters in azbakistan by sending roses and lollipops and little green trolls over and over and over to all my fb friends all this creative activity takes a lot of time no wonder i am having trouble writing the spousal unit was badgering me yes su sir you are a badger and a mighty fine looking one at that about my blog yesterday why aren t you writing i can t believe you aren t writing didn t you just fix your blog up what did that cost what s for dinner can i eat that cheese aren t you writing anymore are you making dessert where are all these books coming from are those grandma panties are you turning into your mother so i thought i d give it a feeble shot today no samples of exotic wood or appliance brochures came in the mail today so i wandered into the kitchen with an old ratty copy of a recipe yanked from some magazine somewhere coconut cupcakes yes i can do this these are very good things to eat we ll start there i guess baby steps people baby steps vanilla bean coconut cupcakes makes 30 regular sized cupcakes 2 3 4 cups butter room temp 2 cups granulated sugar 4 large eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 2 teaspoons almond extract 1 2 vanilla bean split 3 cups all purpose flour 1 2 teaspoon each of baking soda baking powder and salt 1 cup coconut milk 1 1 2 cups flaked coconut 8 oz cream cheese room temp 2 3 4 cups powdered sugar 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees f in a large bowl cream together 2 cups butter and granulated sugar until light and fluffy add eggs one at a time beating well after each addition mix in 1 1 2 teaspoons each of the vanilla and almond extracts 2 in another bowl combine flour baking soda baking powder and salt with the tip of sharp knife scrap the vanilla seeds from the split vanilla bean into the cup of coconut milk and stir add flour mixture to butter mixture alternating with coconut milk stir 1 cup of the coconut into the batter 3 fill 30 paper lined muffin cups in two or more muffin pans about 2 3 full with batter bake for 15 20 minutes or until lightly golden and springy to touch cool for 10 minutes before removing cupcakes from pans cool completely 4 meanwhile toast remaining 1 2 cup coconut in small skillet until toasty brown cool in a medium bowl beat cream cheese 3 4 cup butter and remaining 1 2 teaspoon each vanilla and almond extract until smooth gradually beat in powdered sugar frost cup cakes and sprinkle with remaining coconut note sprinkle oh hell to the no sprinkles i put the cupcake upside down into the coconut and give a twist posted by catherine wilkinson at 4 03 pm 5 comments labels cupcakes january 29 2009 caffeine sugar and butter yessiree is this a coffee cake why yes it is i won a california almond contest with this recipe and with the gift certificate i won i got a new burr coffee grinder i have been coveting and a new drip coffee maker because i just have to face the facts i am sick to death of cleaning a french press i love the taste but the damn grounds so annoying to clean every day they get on my last nerve oh hell no and i have a pathetic little braun grinder that whirls coffee beans round and round without any kind of specific grinding goal screaming the whole time like amy winehouse running down the street naked i open it up and a big coffee cloud of caffeine dust wafts up in the air way up into my nose and there we are back in the 80 s damn it i researched burr grinders very extensively and given the amount i could spend this kitchen aid model came out on top it works beautifully and looks gratifyingly studly too and it s not too loud more like eric ripert sharpening his knife while melodiously asking me what i want for dinner in french the pricier models are very cool but for a less expensive grinder this is greatly made die cast heavy metal body and a glass hopper which is supposed to cut down on the static which it appears to do it doesn t take a ton of room on a counter and looks very industrial and capable and while i was ordering that i saw the professional line kitchen aid 12 cup coffeemaker was on sale so after briefly researching that ok i read just one review from a guy who said he was a professional barista and this was the model he used at home decided to pull the trigger on a new coffeemaker thereby sending the french press to catherine s ass hat appliance abyss it s not the professional barista european model i would have loved but i just haven t won any multi thousand dollar contests lately ok i ve never won one but j h c on a half shell i m working on it when i do i m sure that eric ripert will then return my calls my little coffee robots look very germanic shiny and sensible sitting side by side ready to do my caffeine bidding ok about the cake you need to have a 10 x 3 cake pan it s a dense rich 1 2 pound butter cake a little goes a long way it s sometimes hard to find for me in the culinary wasteland that i call the local grocery store unsweetened ginger so i ve used the crystallized type and it works just fine just cut the amount a bit it s a pretty cake all bakery looking and it s awesome for dessert when you have a spicy asian dish for dinner switch out the cranberries for something else if you prefer i have done this with blueberries cherries and once incorporating the ginger in the cake too it s great with coffee cranberry almond butter cake with almond ginger glaze kitchenaid style serves 8 10 for cake a little butter and flour for preparing cake pan 1 2 pound unsalted butter at room temperature 1 1 2 cup granulated sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 8 large egg yolks 2 cups plus 1 tablespoon divided all purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 1 2 teaspoon baking powder 3 4 cup dried cranberries 3 4 cup slivered almonds roughly chopped 1 cup buttermilk for glaze 1 tablespoon unsalted butter melted and cooled slightly 1 1 2 cup confectioners sugar 2 tablespoon milk or more to reach desired consistency 1 teaspoon almond extract 2 tablespoons finely chopped dried unsweetened ginger 4 tablespoons slivered almonds not chopped to make cake 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees butter and flour a 10 x 3 round cake pan set aside 2 in a large bowl and using an electric beater beat together the softened butter and sugar until light and fluffy scrape down sides of bowl mix in the vanilla extract add the egg yolk one at a time beating for 15 seconds after each egg scrape down sides of bowl 3 in a small mixing bowl place the 2 cups of flour salt and baking powder stir with fork until well incorporated 4 alternating with the buttermilk add the dry ingredients to the butter sugar egg mixture blending well after each addition fold in the almonds and cranberries 5 turn batter into prepared cake pan and level with spatula place in preheated oven and bake for 40 50 minutes or until toothpick inserted into middle of cake comes out clean 6 cool the cake for 10 15 minutes and then run a knife along the edge to loosen flip pan over onto rack and then flip back over and place on serving plate so rounded surface is ready to glaze to make glaze 1 pour the melted butter into a medium sized mixing bowl 2 add the sugar milk almond extract and mix well add more milk to reach desired consistency if needed blend in the slivered almonds and chopped ginger to glaze cake 1 prick warm cake with fork all over 2 drizzle glaze over top of cake letting glaze run down sides of cake posted by catherine wilkinson at 4 00 pm 9 comments labels almonds cake coffee cranberries eric ripert january 28 2009 here comes the sun little darlin i m trying to talk the spousal unit into building our house off the grid but he s resisting he s old school really old school and still refers to email as internet letters he can t use the dvd without calling one of the kids for help and he thought my ipod was a new remote control for the television i have to use all my super powers to try to talk him into anything that s 21st century or the 20th century for that matter so i just bring out the bacon a nice piece of crispy bacon calms the su right down to the point he gets a glazed look on his face and will finally listen to reason about solar tax credits advances in solar systems that have happened in oh the last century how we won t turn into hippies with goats eating grass on the roof and we can actually have back up electric tied in and have the meter run backwards he liked that idea and he liked this pasta peace out here comes the sun and the bacon nothing complicated or innovative but comforting delicious rich and convincing the pint of guinness didn t hurt either spaghetti with smoked bacon arugula and black pepper cream sauce 1 pound dried spaghetti 1 2 onion finely chopped 8 pieces smoked bacon 1 cup heavy whipping cream 2 teaspoons freshly cracked black pepper 1 teaspoon fresh lemon zest 2 cups baby arugula roughly chopped salt and pepper to taste 1 2 cup grated parmesan cheese 1 cook the spaghetti according to package directions or just until al dente about 9 11 minutes 2 meanwhile in medium sized sauté pan cook bacon until crispy drain on stack of paper towels when cool crumble discarding any big fatty parts 3 pour off all but about one tablespoon of bacon fat add onion and cook stirring occasionally until onion is translucent and soft add 2 3 s of the crumbled bacon the cream and the pepper continue cooking until reduced slightly about 5 minutes remove from heat turn mixture into blender or food processor and blend until smooth and creamy 3 when pasta is cooked drain and turn into a large serving bowl toss in the lemon zest and arugula pour in the sauce and blend well sprinkle with remaining bacon crumbles and parm salt and pepper to taste sir francis bacon patron saint of off the grid solar systems posted by catherine wilkinson at 10 30 am 10 comments labels arugula bacon cream sauce solar january 27 2009 the spousal unit dedication post hey how do you like this new look i m still tweaking and re arranging but i m liking it thanks becky since he has been abused misused talked about and generally mistreated here at the dish i thought i d dedicate this post to the spousal unit he s a pretty cool dude he eats what i cook mostly likes it and puts up with quite a bit of derangement noise and confusion coming from the kitchen he works very hard is a wonderful dad to our 4 kids a great brother son friend blah blah blah but mostly is the best spousal unit i could have ever talked into marrying me thanks spousal unit couldn t have done anything without you now would you please take out the garbage smells like tuna cans posted by catherine wilkinson at 1 44 pm 5 comments labels the spousal unit january 22 2009 now for an important update lack of posting exquisitely clever vignettes from my life is due to technical changes and squirrely life stuff the good thing is i m getting my blog re designed by someone who knows more about this stuff than i once that s done i m moving to wordpress on the negativity side i ve been pretty distracted by the issues that the universe keeps throwing at me damn that stephen hawking my mom is so diminished by alzheimer s well maybe i m doing some sympathy neuron firing cause i just can t think straight ok not that maybe it s my diminishing hormones that have been known to whack a person out at a certain age not that i m saying i m a menopausal mess with a propensity to warm up my coffee in the dryer and tell the clerk at target they are a douche nozzle yes soon i ll be shuffling around in a bathrobe from sears have 8 cats and write letters to the local newspaper editor complaining about how the population sign outside of town is wrong we weighed my mom yesterday and she s down to 75 pounds this from a woman who was an incredible baker if she knew what was going on she d be so pissed off she was such a great baker i can t even touch her talent her lemon meringue pies were the best ever period don t even mess with that legend i ve tried to make it and well let s just say there are certain things meringue can do that reminds me of pictures from travel and tropical medicine manual alzheimer s is a terrible disease and the spousal unit has standing orders to shoot me and drag me out to the coyote café if this ever happens to me but some stuff continues to amuse me a few thoughts 1 that english judge from top chef is bad if you try to do snark at least be funny he s not and he has a pinhead btw tom c saved some woman s life at an inaugural dinner he did the heimlich on her i tell ya a guy with a bald head just has something special 2 leah is an idiot seriously is she in junior high and she whacked that fish what was that sauce why do i watch this show well besides watching tom s facial expressions when carla said she s sending love out of the kitchen seriously tom gives the best face padma not so much she s annoying 3 i won a nice little contest for the california almond board 500 at cooking com hormone booster i don t know yet what to buy probably just random stuff that needs to be replaced like the melted spatulas bent cookie sheets and burnt wooden spoons and a cheese grater from l983 any ideas h...