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Nick • August 10, 2010
This week I’m posting a series that I call 3×3: Three posts each with three simple, but related recipes. Tomorrow’s post will be on quick crostini and Thursday’s post will be on summer salad dressings! Be sure to check back over the next few days to see the new 3×3 post, or just subscribe to [...]
Posted in The Drink | Tagged alcohol, Apple Juice, bourbon, Club Soda, cocktails, coconut milk, coffee, ginger, limes, mint, orange juice, sugar, vodka, Watermelon
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Nick • July 31, 2010
If English isn’t your primary language, coffee cake must be very confusing. I mean, there’s no coffee in it normally. It should be called “Cake you eat with coffee.” Of course, that doesn’t roll off the tongue really so people just say coffee cake. My point is that some people are probably disappointed when they [...]
Posted in Breads, Breakfast/Brunch, Stuffing Stuff, Vegetarian | Tagged butter, buttermilk, cake, cinnamon, coffee, coffee cake, Eggs, pecans, powdered sugar, sugar, vanilla, walnuts
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Nick • July 24, 2010
Betsy heads off to Colorado today to take The Bar Exam and she asked me to make some energy bars that she could take into the test with her. As an aside, the people that administer the bar appear to be the most paranoid people in the world. A few of the things you can’t [...]
Posted in Healthy, Quick and Easy, Vegetarian | Tagged almonds, bars, chocolate, coconut, coffee, oats, peanut butter, pecans, rice cereal, vanilla
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Nick • February 25, 2010
I wasn’t shocked when The Pioneer Woman won last week’s poll. She’s pretty much the most popular thing since Barack (2008). The hard part though was deciding what to make out of her latest cookbook. I didn’t really want to make a meat heavy dish which eliminated about 75% of the recipes, so instead I [...]
Posted in Desserts | Tagged brownies, butter, chocolate, cocoa powder, coffee, Eggs, frosting, vanilla
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Nick • February 8, 2010
The Italians are geniuses. They found a way to stuff all of my favorite things into a single dessert: alcohol, coffee, chocolate, and even cheese. That dessert is tiramisu. My only issue with tiramisu is it generally uses Brandy which isn’t something I have laying around. Bourbon, however, I do normally have and tend to [...]
Posted in Desserts, Stuffing Stuff | Tagged bourbon, butter, cake flour, cinnamon, cocoa powder, coffee, Eggs, ladyfingers, mascarpone, tiramisu, vanilla
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Nick • November 18, 2009
One of my favorite movies of all time is The Big Lebowski. I went through a phase where I watched it at least once a week. Most of the time I watched it with my college roommates with a few White Russians (the choice drink of The Dude.) If I had a dollar for every [...]
Posted in The Drink | Tagged alcohol, coffee, sugar, vanilla, vodka
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Nick • October 22, 2009
If you told me that I could only pick one snack food to eat for the rest of my life, it might be chicken wings. Either that or popcorn, but probably wings. I’ve made chicken wings before on Macheesmo, three kinds in fact, but this version is something different. I think there are three important [...]
Posted in Appetizers, Chicken, Junk Food Junkies, Poultry, Spicy | Tagged ancho chiles, brown sugar, chicken wings, chili powder, cilantro, coffee, garlic powder, ginger, Onion Powder, paprika, rice vinegar, shallots, sriracha, thyme
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