baking,
breakfast,
dessert,
snacks
Breakfast for 8? No problem – and lots easier to explain to the neighbors when it’s a breakfast dish for dinner or dessert. Pancakes made one by one? Forget it – the Finns devised a neat custard that takes all the toppings and delights as a slab. It’s the Finnish Oven Pancake: Pannu Kakku.
Who doesn’t like breakfast for dinner or dessert sometimes? The Finns came up with an oven pancake that takes all the toppings and feeds anywhere from two pancake-crazed lunatics to eight normal people. It’s Pannu Kakku!
bistro,
dessert,
montgomery-county
K Town Bistro in Kensington’s Antique Row looks even better with the famed FoodNewsie Mobile parked in front. I’ve been before and came again to drink, eat and, by jove, be remembered and find out that I was living a fun, double life as a music teacher. Have a look at a visit and some food in a bumbling entry.
My first memory of Antique Row is of my Uncle turning me upside down and holding me by my ankles. Some change and a few Micro Machines fell out of my pockets. I didn’t have an older brother (and I still don’t) so this was a new position to be in. It would be decades before I ever went back; and it was by mistake that I did some time last year, just months after K Town Bistro opened. ¶ Today, with an hour plus to kill before K Town re-opened for Dinner…
baking,
dessert,
yoghurt
Old bananas for old banana news – it seemed fitting and with delivery and abundance of this out-of-season fruit, maybe your bananas are aging and spotting. A surprise old recipe had me trying this again and again since it’s such an easy and pleasant cake to have in the Winter.
Jeers to AOL-owned SlashFood for reporting that the Tropical Race Four virus is wiping out Cavendish bananas three years after the fact. We know how hard it is to sift through food news to say something. In a strange attempt to relate a weekly recipe to the week’s news, how about the old answer to, “what do I do with old bananas?”
business,
dessert,
frederick,
lunch
I wouldn’t go through so much trouble if there weren’t something good here. Lots of businesses need your help but have so much less to offer. In avoiding the word, “potential,” it’s easy to showcase what Bella Ragazza already does extremely well for customers and wholesale clients. You could be a client or you could help sell to new found clients.
When I heard that one of the two owners of Bella Ragazza in Frederick County woke up everyday hoping to be bought out, my mind ran to Arctic Squirrels. What would they hide in the Winter to prepare for the Summer? They would probably roll up as many nut-sized snowballs as they could with their scary little claws and bury them in the snow, hoping later for Gelato to stay cool. Stupid Arctic Squirrels…
baking,
choices,
cookies,
dessert,
foodnewsie,
state fair
FN is beginning to network like mad and thanks to GMF, we got MD(D) cornered at her favorite restaurant to agree that by mentioning Food Newsie, you get ONE EXTRA goodie inside this box, for FREE — offers NOT “combinable.”
Spread the word! The generous, frank and cheerful Modern Domestic is at it again with a box of cookies for the holidays. Want something FREE? Mention Food Newsie – but first, read on into the post to see more…. In between planning the first annual DC State Fair, organizing the Board and Cheffing for SpilledMilk, Modern Domestic has found the time to cook some of her favorite cookies and make them tastefully available for $20 bucks. There’s a discount to be had out there, and now, there’s a free cookie to be had instead! Decisions, decisions…
dessert,
diy,
holiday,
special
We continue with our second idea of what you can bring to the table this Thanksgiving with a healthier Chocolate that will package well as a gifting sauce this later holiday season surprising everyone with next year’s sweetener too!
We discussed earlier that Thanksgiving is more about what you can bring to the table and less about just one, silly day of thanks. Most of the foods you eat will be brown-centric in color, so let’s not only add to that to avoid shocking friends and family, but let’s also introduce to them what the surprise sweetener of next year might be! Oh yes.
carnivore,
dessert,
food-blogs
Winter. I’m totally ready. Bring it on. I’m making marshmallows at home starting now. Jet-Puffed – ha! This four-hour setting delivers two weeks of fluffy stuff that’s possibly healthier? You judge…
Few things in the kitchen feel mischievous and this is positively one of them. While nursing a hole in my mouth with pain medication, a post at The Royal Kitchen (a Watched Pot entry) a while back seemed more and more like a good idea: Homemade marshmallows.
celebrity,
dc-eats,
dessert
EmilyHaha.Wordpress is actually Metro-Venture. You’ve always wondered where the blog that kept the WMATA in check was – we invited M-V’s creator out for a day joy riding by rail and bus to find hidden foodie spots. We got lots more than we bargained for.
“Oh my God! That’s so cool. I wish I could do that,” is the reaction from others when Emily Haha tells them that she gave up her cell phone and is completely disconnected when she’s in the street. It would be even more, oh my God and so cool if they knew Em needs two hands to count how many blogs and status updates she maintains – one to which she posts twice a day, seven days a week and another, online just eight months, is fast approaching a quarter million total page views. Em, also a vegetarian and Zipcar driver, is far more connected than anyone would first imagine.
alcohol,
dessert,
fruit
I am now unable to count how many times I’ve made Sour Cherry Compote. This happens when I’m either right at the very edge of liking something or of the opinion that my next iteration of a recipe will be a keeper. After combining a few recipes and sharing this with a handful of neighbors, friends and bloggers, the same conclusion: It’s close, but something’s not right. Now it’s your turn.
Hey! Cherries aren’t really red – so to whom ever came up with Black Cherry Soda, thank you. Cherry compote isn’t the prettiest thing to look at, but can’t it have the decency to taste better?
Historically, compote is a dessert of fruits and sweet or sour liquids boiled down to compliment a main portion of dessert. Some recipes call for Tawny Port, some for wine, still others call for neither. The sugars in the cherries, plums, raisins, peaches or whatever weapon of choice provide a sticky result that’s the target of compote recipes I looked over.
beer,
cocktail,
dessert
With unholy heat comes unholy rain. I’d say there’s no better way to send Summer straight to hell than to tap into that bottle of Limoncino you’ve been hanging on to since graduation. By itself, Limoncino or Limoncello is an acquired taste; with porter, it becomes a taller acquired taste.
Surprisingly complex the further you go. The secret is in the division when pouring and adding ice one-quarter the way down. This beer cocktail will disgust Porter purists, but is sure to please the ladies. I’m guessing.
Not everything we try here in the Food Newsie Kitchen Labs is a raging success. You should know now, this is definitely a hit-or-miss drink.
choices,
cookies,
dessert
How about a bevy of choices to match a situation you may encounter since no one recipe can be called “the best?” Having craved peanut butter cookie recipes for no reason other than to stuff my fat face, I’ve found vastly different “best” recipes with some definite losers. What stuck? Three recipes for three very different peanut butter cookies!
After HOURS and days of testing, failing, succeeding, learning and failing some more, I finally get around to making all three varieties at once yesterday. This entry has waited more than a week for taste tests, bake tests and holidays to pass. You will enjoy one of these three PB Divas best – I want to know which it is!
How about a bevy of choices to match a situation you may encounter since no one recipe can be called “the best?” Having craved peanut butter cookie recipes for no reason other than to stuff my fat face, I’ve found vastly different “best” recipes with some definite losers. What stuck?
baking,
cupcakes,
dessert
Cups-CAKES, that is. Any other cup size preference you’ve heard is just a myth, flatty. I’m not prone to grabbing a Hungry Girl cookbook that touts fast, easy, healthy recipes, but there one was on a girl’s dining room table. Expresso Cupcakes [sic] on page 88 seemed like something with a kick of coffee that would hit the spot most anytime. What came out of the initial efforts was a dark-brown Nerf tennis ball. Perhaps I could do better?
That’s actually the original recipe sitting next to the winning variation. This recipe is cooked in coffee mugs and come out just as pictured. The modifications are simple and give about an inch and-a-half of extra vertical cupcake-like substance….
It seems that no matter what was tried in the FoodNewsie Kitchen Lab, microwaved cupcakes are just spongy. Getting more cupcake for the effort is only a small consolation. These are indeed fast and easy treats for people looking for quality in niether the taste of chocolate nor coffee…
