Wishlist Item

This book is now on my wishlist.

What's cooking in chemistry? How leading chemists succeed in the kitchen...

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Tags: Book, Wishlist, Chemistry

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Homemade Burgers

Last week a friend from work told me how to make homemade burgers (I talk about burgers at work because I have nothing better to do). Anyway, here is the recipe

Note the crappy style of the recipe - there are no measurements at all; I was told to add the stuff as I felt it. This is proof that it was given by a guy not a girl:

Some beef
A dash of ketchup
A bit of worstershire sauce
Bit of bread crumbs
An egg
Lotsa mustard
Spoonful bbq sauce
A little salt
Some pepper
Couple cloves of garlic

After mixing everything together in a bowl, I made patties and stuck em on the BBQ for a couple of minutes. Flip once, and stick them on a bun.

As shady as the recipe was, it turned out decent:

Thanks!

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Tags: Recipe, Burgers, Homemade, Grill, Barbeque

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Kofta With Tomato and Potato

Without mentioning any specific names, I would not trust most 25 year old brown girls who I know with cooking something decent. Unfortunately, when I look at younger brown girls, the situation isn't much better, and there is little hope for the future.

So you can imagine how I must have felt when I trusted the all-important Sunday night family dinner (look at this old post from 2004 [!] for the meaning behind Sunday night dinners at our house) to an anonymous 25-year-old Levant girl named Laila.

Alas, Laila came through, and her Levant recipe was very good for the amount of work required to make it. Recipe stolen from Laila's blog.

First, make the basic kofta mix.
- 1 lb minced meat
- 1/2 of an onion, chopped
- 1.5 cloves garlic, minced
- 0.5 cup parsely, chopped
- 1 teaspoon all spice
- salt and pepper, to taste

Add everything to the minced meat and mix!

-Kofta
-2 large potaoes, quartered then sliced thinly
-2 large tomatoes, quartered and sliced
-Juice of one lemon
-1/2 cup water
-1 tb olive oil
-Salt and pepper

*Recipe modified: olive oil substituted for vegetable oil and ReaLemon substituted for lemon juice.

Anyway, here is what turned out. It was served with warm pita bread and hummus (which sucked BTW because it came out of a jar instead of the fresh one that the Arabic store sells).

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Tags: Recipe, Laila, Blog, Arabic, Food, Cooking, Hummus, Kofta, Good Taste!

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Year in Review

The year 2008 in review.

-started off with daily photoblog thing, which failed badly after two weeks.

-in feb i got hosting!

-in april came exams, and the yearly NHL playoff predictions

-By the end of may, I was in Pakiland

-...and took off a month (almost two months) because of the lack of time and internet availability.

-the blog resumed in august, when i had both free time, inspiration, and content to blog about. there were thousands of pictures and heaps of commentary from the vacations and loads of time.

-The great new redesign came at the end of August, right before school.

-With September started the thesis, and I made some posts on what i was doing, but quickly realized that i probably shouldn't give away too much

-sep also meant living alone, and cooking to feed myself. SO i made recipe posts

-I posted pictures for Eid ul adha, which was one of the most popular posts ever in October.

-and the school year equates to new TV season:
i started watching:
- house (renewed interest)
- heroes (resume)
- family guy (resume)
- fringe (new show)
- chuck (resume from summer)
- the office (renewed interest)

-November's haloween costume was good

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The above is not the original post; it is the draft.

Categories: Recipes    

Tags: Year In Review, Blog, Me

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Rajma

This post was a recipe on Rajma, but part of the database was destroyed and the post cannot be recovered.

Originally, the recipe was modified from here.

Categories: Recipes    

Tags: Filler Posts, Recipe, Rajma, Indian cuisine, Cooking

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