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Jan 23

Weekend Links, Jan. 23

We ended the weekend very well. Finally had the neighbors over for dinner and thoroughly enjoyed a big platter of our favorite Zuni Café roasted chicken and bread salad, which I continue to maintain is one of the best dinner party items of all time.

We ended the meal very well, too, with a new cake creation. Chocolate layer cake filled with peanut butter Italian buttercream, frosted with vanilla Italian buttercream and topped with crushed honey roasted peanuts.  This one’s a keeper.

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Speaking of chocolate cakes, maybe I’ll try this next time. I love the tang of buttermilk, sour cream, or vinegar in a chocolate cake, so why not?

A really fantastic guide to selecting knives for use at home.

Quarterlies are the new monthlies. I wouldn’t say no to a subscription to any of these.

Freezing balled cookie dough is indeed an awesome way to have freshly baked cookies just a few at a time. Patience is not a virtue I tend to exhibit, but I can try my best (or I could just eat frozen dough …)

Sustainable seafood is incredibly important, and every day it’s getting easier to find!

I spend nowhere near 20 minutes cleaning my kitchen every day, but this is nonetheless a really helpful guide to keeping my most heavily used room a little less of a mess.

And I would love to take tons of free, interesting classes about food and nutrition. Any day now, I’ll start that …

That’s all for now – we’re headed to San Diego for three days of tacos, microbrews, and Extraordinary Desserts. Have a great week, everyone!

Jan 16

Weekend Links, Jan. 16

Earlier this weekend I posted my new Bowen Appétit Bar Guide – a detailed guide to developing a home bar for classic and creative cocktail-making! That took up most of my attention this week, but I’m working on a few favorite recipes today and have plenty of links from the week to keep you going in the meantime …

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Bourbon for breakfast? It’s like they read my mind. Kentucky breakfast cocktails. Just try not to run into anyone you know for a little while afterward, because it’s quite a start to your day.

How to know if you can trust a politician? Ask if he travels with his own homegrown meat.

Swedish tree hotel. I’d stay there.

I love lists, and I love this handy guide to what “every house needs” – in the kitchen, the bathroom, the guest room, the garage, etc. If you’ll be registering for a wedding soon, take a look at this!

Super helpful tips for making perfect muffins at home.

Easy homemade ravioli with a surprise pasta alternative. Brilliant!

I love LOVE the art of creative, gorgeous restaurant menus.

Are you interested in learning how to sew? This ongoing series is a super-informative and easy-to-understand intro to sewing at home.

Peanut butter banana toast is one of my favorite go-to breakfasts. Never thought about making them even better …

This post makes me both incredibly hopeful and totally terrified. Meg confirms for me that I’m doing the right thing in making a pretty big life transition – but also makes me realize how much work I have ahead of me. Oh, boy.

One last thing: just made this for lunch and updated the post with new pictures. Eggs fried in bacon drippings from yesterday’s breakfast and a few freshly baked sourdough rolls made it absolutely perfect, in a slightly eggs benedict sort of way. Kale masquerading as eggs benedict. Yes.

Have a great week, everyone!

Jan 9

Weekend Links, Jan. 9

I don’t know about you, but I tend to have a hard time keeping up on my blog reader, links people have sent me, and all the other random internet “stuff to do” during the week. I make up for it on weekends, and at the beginning of each week I want to start sharing with you all the things I’ve found that I love.

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Breakfast this morning – Brett’s homemade bread (Tartine baguette recipe) with red pepper spread, feta, and a poached egg. Good way to start a Monday!

For instance:

Want to make better scrambled eggs? We started doing the low-and-slow method a few years ago and I will never look back. We first got it from Mark Bittman (you can read about it straight from the source, here), but this more recent Gilt Taste piece by Ruth Reichl gets to the same point.

As you know, I’ve spent a lot of time over the past year(s) re-envisioning what I want my life, particularly my work life, to look like. So I was really excited to see Less Work, More Living over at Yes Magazine. The article itself is a bit self-indulgent, but I’m thrilled to see this issue discussed. Yes’ fall issue is titled New Livelihoods, and I see lots of content I need to put on my reading list for next weekend …

I’m not one for resolutions, much, but this list of 20 Resolutions for 20-Somethings has quite a few that would be good for people of any age.

And if I were to make some resolutions, they’d probably include going mushroom hunting.

Trader Joe’s sells coconut oil now! Yay!

I’m in the midst of a big, exciting new feature post for later this week. Until then, have a great start to your week!

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