Faith made these at the beach this year and it made a very tasty and fairly easy dessert. I just made a batch to confirm the concept and plan to make a double batch for my scouter buddies at Wildcat Lake next week. This is lot more of a concept than a recipe. The photographs Read More …
For this year’s canoe trip, I have been trying to minimize fresh and perishable ingredients, even for the first day on the water. This recipe is a variation on Sopapilla Cheesecake in an Omnia Oven in which the packaged crescent rolls are replaced by biscuit dough made from Bisquick and powdered milk. The quantities below Read More …
This is a variation on Pecan Pie Cobbler v2 to make it a little easier for a canoe trip, such as by using salted butter instead of unsalted butter plus salt. I have also rewritten the directions. I will be baking this in an Omnia stove-top oven. Cobbler Batter 1 stick (1/2 cup) salted butter Read More …
For this year’s camping trip, I decided to try to modify Apple Crisp – Camping Version to use dried vs. fresh apples, which would reduce weight and volume, and would also avoid the risk of bruising the fruit during portaging, etc. Last night I made a proof-of-concept in my home oven, which was a success. Read More …
Carol has been advocating beef stroganoff for this year’s canoe trip and also for using pieces of beef rather than ground beef. Mulling this over, I thought about the thinly sliced rib eye which is sold by Asian grocery stores like the New Grand for use in yakiniku, sukiyaki, etc. The photo shows our proof Read More …
One of the current rages on the internet is a mashup between the smashburger and the taco, so I made one for lunch yesterday. This is all about technique. Here is what you do for each serving: Form a 4 oz. ball of ground beef. (I seasoned it with a tsp. or so of teriyaki Read More …
This was the first dish which I cooked from Winson Presents: A Taiwanese-American Cookbook. It was described as the favorite dish of the father of one of the authors. This used several specialty ingredients, most of which I was able to find at the New Grand supermarket. (The one I could not find was Bull Read More …
This bread is a variation of 65% Whole Wheat Sourdough Boule replacing the Red Fife and bread bread flour with a mixture of bread, high gluten, pumpernickel (rye), and einkorn flours. Since rye has less gluten than wheat, I swapped out some of the bread flour for high gluten flour to compensate. The resulting loaf was still Read More …
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