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Banana Ice Cream
Hands down, this is the easiest recipe on this site, with the fewest ingredients: one. I stumbled upon this recipe for banana ice cream on the same day I noticed a few sad bananas sitting in the kitchen, and it seemed too crazy-majickal to pass up. Freeze bananas, blend bananas. That’s pretty much it. It […]
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Tilapia with Fresh Corn and Hatch Chiles
It’s that time of year that some wait on pins-and-needles for… hatch chile season! Â The roasters are out in full force at several grocery stores in the area, and with a freezer full of chiles, I wanted to find a recipe off the beaten “green chile stew”/”green chile enchiladas” path. Â This recipe is adapted from […]
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Maple Blueberry Coffee Cake
I love when Lisa gets on a “I’m gonna bake treats” kick. This week she spotted this recipe @101 Cookbooks for a tasty coffee cake with an interesting twist — it includes fresh rosemary and thyme, which happen to be the two plants we’ve actually managed to keep alive in our garden. Perfect! [donotprint] Chris […]
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Cochinita Pibil: Slow-roasted Yucatan Pork
We had banana leaves left over from the Steamed Salmon recipe, and I happened to stumble across this tasty-looking pork dish a couple of days before a PEPS potluck, so it was a no-brainer to make it our contribution. I’m still partial to the Carnitas that we’ve made a few times previously, but this recipe […]
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Steamed Banana Leaf Salmon
This is seriously one of the easiest and tastiest salmon recipes we’ve ever made. Adapted for two from the excellent Good Fish: Sustainable Seafood Recipes from the Pacific Coast by Becky Selengut (from whom I received a private cooking lesson, jealous much?), salmon fillets marinate in sake and mirin before being steamed along with mushrooms […]