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Zucchini Banana Bread with Browned Butter Cream Cheese Frosting. Although most of the U.S. experiences an abundance of zucchini this time of year, that was not the case while I was in Aruba. I was coming across so many zucchini recipes on blogs and in the food magazines I brought with me, and I was craving it fiercely. I wandered into a local Aruban grocery store and asked the clerk who spoke Chinese, Papiamento, and broken English for a zucchini.

There was another woman who spoke Spanish, broken English, and broken Chinese. No one could communicate with anyone and we all just stared at each other blankly. Had I asked for beer, a bathroom, or to buy fireworks, that would have been easy. I found cucumbers, held one up, and kept saying zucchini. A lightbulb finally went off and the two women both exclaimed at the same time, ZUTCH-ahh-Knee! They disappeared and about ten minutes later came out with a zucchini the size of something very x-rated. More confusion, more disappearing, and they reappeared with three small ZUTCH-ahh-Knees. He said, “Are you sure?” Baked Macaroni and Cheese Recipe : Alton Brown : Food Network - Aurora. Jam | What Did You Eat Yesterday? - Aurora. July 17, 2012 Friday night Brad and I and our furry children went to my parents’ house to celebrate my brother’s birthday.

While I was laying on the floor wrestling with those furry children, I noticed the small stack of books under my parents’ television in their sun room. In that pile was a Julia Child baking book that I think my brother and I got her as a gift for some occasion a few years ago. I started thumbing through it and realized I wanted to make every single thing in that book. Every once and awhile I get in a baking mood, but not just a “oh let’s bake some cookies” mood. My mom has gotten into canning lately and that basically means that Brad and I are fully stocked with apple butter, pickles, strawberry jam and… this just in… blueberry jam. Ok… so these taste like something out of a bakery. Jam Filled Pinwheel DanishesFrom Baking With Julia Makes about 16 pinwheels Mixing the Dough: Pour the water into a large bowl, sprinkle over the yeast and let it soften for a minute. Just Cook It. - Aurora.

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How to Make Jello Oranges. Japanese Scotch Egg. First off, I haven’t actually uploaded a complete bento here in ages, so here is one! It features Japanese Scotch eggs, which you see in the near-most box. (The rest of the bento consists of cucumber slices with sea salt; a carrot and celeriac salad; onigiri with umeboshi filling; banana and mini-cupcakes. The whole bento is about 1100 calories - I intended it to be for 2, but ended up eating the whole thing by myself!) The original Scotch egg is a British pub snack, made by wrapping a hardboiled egg in sausage meat and deep frying it.

The Japanese version uses a ground beef/pork meat mix, and is either deep fried, panfried or baked in the oven. Japanese style Scotch egg is considered to be rather retro in Japan these days. I rather hesitated to post this recipe since it doesn’t quite fit the usual criteria for recipes here. Recipe: Japanese Scotch Eggs Amounts are for 4 Scotch Eggs. 350g / 12 oz combined ground beef and pork, or just beef or just pork. Recipe search by ingredients you have at home.

Hamburger Steak with Creamy Onion Gravy. Hamburger steak should be in everybody's go-to recipe box and this one is the best ever. Seriously! I know that's a bold statement, but to be honest, it always gets a boatload of compliments, and isn't that what we're all after in this anyway? Hamburger steak is a common southern meal because it's fast and easy and a super delicious comfort food when you put an onion gravy in the mix. This recipe uses fresh ground chuck to form into the hamburger patties, but certainly pre-made hamburger steak patties, would make an easy go of this dish, and for a speedy transition to dinnertime during the week. Then dip each patty into 1/3 cup of flour. And brown them on both sides in a skillet with a couple tablespoons of hot oil.

Remove and set aside. Slice up an onion... ...and toss those into the same skillet you cooked the patties in. While the onions are cookin', mix together 1 cup of beef broth and 1 cup of water, or just use 2 cups of water alone, with some seasoned salt and pepper. Keep stirring. Feastoffiction.com | Feast of Fiction - Aurora. Smitten kitchen - Aurora.