Daniel Greene

Tag: food

  • Adventures in Grocery Shopping

    Halva floss, yogurt soda, and sesame bread sticks from Aziz Market. We’re pretty adventurous eaters at the Smithers–Greene.

    Review? The halva floss tasted good, but I thought halva necessarily meant made with tahini (sesame butter) as many “halvas” are. Now I guess it just means candy. The yogurt soda was unique– pungent, goaty, and tart. Very strong flavor that would probably go best with Greek or Middle Eastern food. The sesame sticks are, well, less sweet than your typical breadsticks. They are heavily coated with sesame seeds which gives them a slightly bitter taste. Good though.

  • Andy’s Red, White, and Blue Parfait

    How could I be with this guy for seven years and not have had “his” red white & blue parfait? Last time he said “I think I’ll make ‘my’ such-and-such” was about something else he made in this 13×9 Pyrex dish– “My breakfast casserole” —after we had been together for six years! You got any other tricks up your sleeve, honey? 😉

  • Ah, the splendor of chocolate!

    I baked this confection using this flourless chocolate cake recipe. Is it delicious? Oh. My. God is it delicious! I had originally bought these eight mini Hershey’s Special Dark bars to eat as little desserts, but today I decided I wanted to bake a flourless chocolate cake for the first time. I found the recipe above which called for four ounces of bittersweet chocolate, so these “8-.49 oz bars” filled the bill perfectly! We also happened to have Hershey’s cocoa (natural unsweetened) in the house as well as sugar, unsweetened butter, and eggs (we’re a baking household). Oh, boy is it good! I’m so glad I decided to bake it.

    One thing I would recommend, though, is to follow the recipe and use an “eight-inch” cake pan as opposed to this 9″ cake pan, because the smaller the pan, the taller the cake. And this one could stand to be a smidge taller. Other than that, «magnifique»!

  • Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
    Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

    I’m making three dozen of these tonight with this recipe:

    Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

    • Servings: 3 dozen
    • Difficulty: moderate
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    Ingredients
    • 1 cup butter, softened
    • 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
    • ½ cup granulated sugar
    • 2 large eggs
    • 2 tsp vanilla extract
    • 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
    • 1 tsp baking soda
    • ½ tsp salt
    • 2 cups uncooked regular oats (I used cracked, toasted Coach’s Oats)
    • 1 12-oz package Nestle’s Toll House semisweet chocolate morsels
    • 1 cup pecan pieces
    Directions
    1. Preheat oven to 350º
    2. In a large bowl, beat butter and sugars with an electric mixer at medium speed until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla, beating well.
    3. In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a bowl, stirring well. Add oats; stir well.
    4. Add dry mixture to butter mixture and stir until well blended. Gently stir in chocolate morsels and pecan pieces.
    5. Drop by rounded tablespoons 2″ apart onto baking sheets lined with parchment paper (I used wax paper on two of the baking sheets and nothing on a non-stick baking sheet, and it worked fine.)
    6. Bake for 15 minutes or until peaks of golden brown appear on top.
    7. Cool on pan 5 minutes or until firm
    8. Cool further to desired temperature on wire racks.

    (I took this photo in April, but I’m making more of them tonight!)

  • Tweetup meal w/ Gary Millard & Sheila Bocchine

    I took part in an interesting phenomenon today. I was riding the light rail home from work when I checked Twitter using Twidroid on my T-Mobile G1 with Google. An update suddenly appeared from Sheila Bocchine (sheilabocchine on Twitter and daisyjellybean on Flickr) that read, “I have all the necessary paperwork for my visa complete!! Yay!! Now for lunch at Mrs. White’s Golden Rule Cafe!!”

    I’ve wanted to try Mrs. White’s Golden Rule Cafe for a couple of years now, and I’ve seen it many times lately while passing it on the eastbound train on Jefferson at 8th Street. I just happened to be on Washington and 24th Street when I read her latest tweet, so I was only blocks away from the restaurant. I sent her a direct message saying, “Like company for lunch? I’m on the Metro in that direction right now! =)”. I didn’t hear back right away, so I sent another, “I am at 12th st & Washington right now”, and finally, “I got off the train. If now’s not a good time, I can get the next one.” Luckily, I got a direct message from her as I stood on the station platform that said, (more…)