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Dessert, Recipes

My Favorite Chocolate Cake and Frosting

I cannot take any credit for these recipes. I am posting them here so that I don’t have to comb the internet every time I want to make them. This stuff is life-changing. Beatty’s Chocolate Cake Ina Garten’s Recipe   Ingredients Butter, for greasing the pans 1 3/4 cups AP flour, plus more for pans […]

Dips, Recipes

Creamy Baba Ghanouj

Eggplant is one of my favorite vegetables, and baba ghanouj is one of my favorite eggplant dishes.  I roast eggplants at least once per week.  I started roasting my eggplant tonight and decided midway through that I wanted baba ghanouj.  Unfortunately, I didn’t have any lemons.  How can you have baba ghanouj without the tang […]

Breakfast, Recipes

Baked Oatmeal Muffins

Recipe adapted from: http://swain.ces.ncsu.edu/bakedoatmeal/ Ingredients 2 ½ cups quick cooking oats 11⁄2 tsp baking powder 1 Tbsp ground cinnamon 1 tsp ground nutmeg 1/2 tsp ground ginger 1/4 tsp ground cloves 4 Tbsp dark brown sugar 3 eggs ¾ cup skim milk (or 1/2 cup half & half, plus 1/4 cup water) 1 tsp vanilla […]

Recipes, Side Dish

Red Cabbage, Carrot & Cilantro Slaw

Red Cabbage, Carrot & Cilantro Slaw Serves at least 10 Ingredients: 1/2 head red cabbage, shredded 4 carrots, shredded 1/2 bunch cilantro with stems, roughly chopped 1/3 cup rice vinegar 2 tsp toasted sesame oil 1 Tbsp honey 1 tsp sriracha 1/4 tsp salt 1/4 tsp black pepper Directions: Shred cabbage and carrots. Chop cilantro. […]