Cool Family Meals images
Check out these family meals images:
Meal
Image by nivek2002
Family Meal
Image by Leah Gregg
first family meal at 153 Utah
Family Meal Deal
Image by boost ventilator
Cool Recipes images
Check out these recipes images:
DIY Recipe Book
Image by TNEmily
Want to make your own recipe book? My tutorial is here:
awesomeave.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/diy-recipe-book/
Making Coffee Concentrate: See Recipe
Image by cobalt123
My recipe on making coffee concentrate is below. It’s the best method of making very rich coffee at home. Easy to do and inexpensive, you can keep it 2 weeks in your refrigerator. Just fill a coffee mug up about 1/4 and add hot water. Very smooth and rich. This image shows a shot of the ground coffee in a bowl, just after I added the water to soak the coffee. After 12 hours, the concentrate is very dark brown and ready to use. It "works" because the coffee is not "cooked" again before the concentrate is made.
In a 2 1/2 quart bowl:
5 cups fresh ground coffee (grind it fine)
Fill bowl to rim with filtered water
Let sit for 12 hours or more, covered with a lid or plastic wrap. Stir a few times over the soaking period. Produces about 4 1/2 cups of coffee concentrate.
Strain the liquid into a refrigerator bottle or container. To use, makes great hot coffee or iced coffee. Use only about 1/5 or 1/3 of the glass or mug of the concentrate. Add water or milk (for iced coffee). Sugar as desired.
My particular preferences, just found by experimenting:
I grind up 2 or 3 types of coffee, with my favorite recipe using 3 cups of a hazelnut flavored coffee, and the rest is French roast, Kona Blend, or other types of coffee beans. I found that grinding coffee beans makes the best flavor.
Cool Cook Books images
A few nice cook books images I found:
Edible Book Festival / #27
Image by Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library
Beanball by Gene Fehler
Edible Book by Eathan Benne
Edible Book Festival / #15
Image by Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library
BUGS! by David Greenberg
Edible Book by Aubrey Zimmerman
Edible Book Festival / #11
Image by Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library
Jaws by Peter Benchley
Edible Book by Kelli Smith
Cool Barbecue Foods images
Some cool barbecue foods images:
Another barbecue
Image by Jez Page
Another scorching day, and another barbecue to finish off the day.
black tie barbecue – get your black tie ready!
Image by Foodie Buddha
The Food Starts Cooking
Image by Mark-Sutherland
Patrick, Ed and Rachel, inspecting the food-cooking ability of the barbecue
Cool Recipes images
Some cool recipes images:
Chocolate Cookies (Recipe)
Image by Ruthieki
I don’t usually stray too far from my standard cookie recipes (chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin), but I made this recipe the other day because I was craving cookies and I happened to have all of the ingredients on hand. They were GOOD. Really, really good. Possibly my new favorite cookie of all time, even. They’re soft, a little cake-y, and really chocolatey (sort of like eating a brownie in cookie form).
2 cups all purpose flour
¾ cup cocoa powder
1 tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
1 ¼ cups (2 sticks plus 4 tablespoons) unsalted butter, room temp. (don’t microwave!)
2 cups sugar, plus more for dipping
2 large eggs
2 tsps vanilla extract
1. Mix together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
2. Beat butter, sugar, and eggs on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes.
3. Add vanilla, mix to combine.
4. Gradually add flour mixture, and combine on low speed.
5. Chill until firm, about 1 hour.
6. Heat oven to 350.
7. Roll dough into 1-inch balls. Dip top of each ball into sugar. Place on baking sheets about 1 ½ inches apart.
8. Bake until set, about 8 minutes.
9. Cool on baking sheets for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool.
Makes about 45, or just short of three cookie-sheets worth.
I found that baking them for exactly 8 minutes in a properly pre-heated oven yielded perfect cookies. They were very soft and prone to falling apart while they were still hot, but once they cooled the texture was just right. Yum, looking at this picture makes me want to make these again right now… they only lasted about 2 days in my house, mostly since I was eating three for breakfast and three with every meal and three more as a bedtime snack.
