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hot off the griddle: pear and buckwheat pancakes with extra credit– honey butter!

Meredith

Posted on September 14, 2011

I know you might be thinking that now that summer break is over, this teacher is going to have nothing homemade to blog about. Well, it has been pretty hectic around here. I thought about just blogging about exotic drinks for the next 9 months, but that might be troubling to some of you, as well as my liver.  If you guys can manage another 15 minutes of SSR, I promise I will give you extra credit for returning to my blog…  By the way, yesterday tsp. had its 1000th view after just 2 months of being alive, so thank you for reading, and cooking and eating.  One thing I have managed to whip up, during this period of back-to-school adjustment, is some pancakes. We have made…

Categories: recipes, vegetarian

Tagged: buckwheat, butter, good to the grain, honey, pancakes, pear

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ciliegia vera

Meredith

Posted on September 1, 2011

The true cherry. For those readers in Oregon, the old world has you beat this time. Your Maraschino are imitations of something much more precious. Something made without corn syrup and artificial colors. Even the “natural Maraschino” you produce are not true to the name. I have stumbled upon genuine Marasca cherries, in Luxardo liqueur. As black as an olive, as sweet as they ought to be (not overly), and so rich with the flavor of something in its second form– the sweet-tart flame of its past life flickering across our tongues. The texture is also like an olive– firm but quickly devoured. That is, after sipping my new favorite cocktail, The Montserrat. Like a martini, but lost in the Chihuahuan desert, or the…

Categories: restaurants, Where food comes from

Tagged: cherry liqueur, cocktail, hotel havana, luxardo cherries, marasca cherry, maraschino, ocho lounge, riverwalk, sotol anejo, st. germaine, vermouth

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