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Blackberry Cobbler By Naomi

Yesterday I decided to start using up some of my frozen blackberries. Here is my recipe for you guys. Since the serving was so small, only two ramekins, there are no measurements that I can give you. Just follow along and you should not have a problem.


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chocolate and vanilla swirl pancakes

These were super simple to make. Just separate the batter to two bowls. In one, add vanilla extract, in the other add chocolate and sugar. Be careful not to cook these too slowly! This is a fast process and not for a novice. 

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How to Make Perfectly round cookies

Have you ever wanted to make perfectly round cookies without a cookie cutter? It takes awhile, you will have to refrigerate or freeze the dough.


Here are my photos. As usual, I take pictures of the entire process. 



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Over 60 ways to make chicken in Videos

Here is another fantastic playlist from Chef John - Over Sixty Videos about how to make Chicken. Super!


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How to make a spicy Chinese Peanut Sauce

This was a fun recipe to make. At the Seattle Library I checked out a book 500 Chinese Recipes. (image linked to the right). I thumbed through the book and found that many of the recipes had the same ingredients, rice vinegar, rice wine, ginger, garlic, soy sauce, sugar, pepper paste, fish oil, sesame oil, szechuan pepper, hoisin sauce...and a few others that escape me for the moment. 

I like things that are spicy. On a scale of 1 - 10, I like my hot factor to be about a 6.5 or a 7. Once in awhile I will take it up to an 8. 
Basic Ingredients for a Spicy Chipotle Peanut Sauce
Continue reading this blog for the recipe and photos.

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Perfect Brunch

I have often wondered what constitutes the perfect ' brunch'. Is it suppose to be a real combination between breakfast and lunch? Like a pancake sandwich? Or a breakfast soup?

This morning I put together a little brunch for my husband. It consisted of stuffed eggs, grilled tomatoes, and potato pancakes.


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Chef John's Pasta Playlist

Good Afternoon Everybody!

While my husband is at work, and I am missing him terribly, I decided to use my free time learning some new recipes from one of my all time favorite Chefs - Chef John. I chatted with him back in 2006 when I was living in Paris. He helped me put together a nice little menu of all American food that I could present to my friends.

Today I jumped over to his channel to see what was cooking. (pun intended) . I decided that today I would do something a little different and embed an entire playlist of Chef John Pasta Recipes. If you are planning on opening an Italian restaurant - just watch this playlist. You are set.

There are forty four videos here. I hope you take the time to watch them all. 

Cheers!!!


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How To Make Mustard Videos

Homemade Mustards

Today I wrote a little blurb in Naomi´s Garden, about how to grow and cultivate mustard. That blog lead me here. How to make your own mustard!

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup dry mustard
  • 1/2 cup white vinegar
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper
  • 2 tablespoons white sugar
  • egg yolks, beaten

Directions

  1. In a heavy saucepan combine mustard, vinegar, salt, pepper and sugar. Simmer over low heat for 3 hours.
  2. Beat egg yolks into mixture and stir until thickened. Pour into hot, sterilized jars and seal. Cool at room temperature and store in the refrigerator.


Continue Reading for some easy tutorial videos! How to make your own Mustard from scratch!

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Berry Orange Muffins

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Mixed berry orange muffin made with blueberries, blackberries and orange juice concentrate. Follow standard muffin making instructions. Mix the dry ingredients separately (flour, baking powder, salt) Mix the wet ingredients separately (sugar, milk, juice, butter). Mix just until incorporated. Do Not over mix this batter because the muffins will come out stiff. A few spots of flour is okay. Bake at 350 until golden and delicious.

After baking the muffins, I made an orange glaze and a blackberry glaze. I drizzled both glazes on the cooling muffins. They looked and tasted wonderful!

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Making Wine and Alcohol

http://www.sterlingwineonline.com
I took the boys to the Seattle library today. I checked out a few cookbooks. Bread, Cookies, Holiday treats...and how to make wine at home. Life is really amazing. So many things that I do not know! It  makes life wonderful.

I read a few chapters of wine making, then looked up some unfamiliar terms. There are suppliers all over the country that will sell equipment to make beer, liqueur, wine, and soda. There is so much to learn and take it, I am only getting started.

Although I am not much of a drinker, I will certainly enjoy making alcohol (particularly wine), for my friends and family. Featured below are several tutorial videos about how to make different kinds of alcohol. At the end of this blog I am going to link some suppliers.



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Blackberry Orange Cobbler - Low Calorie Recipe

-Low Calorie Blackberry Orange Cobbler-
Orange-Blackberry cobbler is as fantastic low calorie dessert. This dessert calls for fresh, ripe blackberries and orange concentrate! Yummy!

 In a previous post, Paula Dean´s Peach Cobbler, I posted a Paula Dean video showing how to make the cobbler. For further instructions, click on the link above and watch the video.

 Follow her instructions step-by-step, but use my ingredients.

 She will insist that you use butter instead of margarine. You can use margarine. The crust will be fine. The filling is going to be so delicious, that you will not miss the butter. So please go to my previous post about how to make a Peach Cobbler.  Using Splenda cuts out a lot of the calories. So even though this is not the lightest dessert, it is significantly lighter than many other baked pastry or cobbler.

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Naomi´s Blackberry Wheat Bread Recipe


I made my first loaf of wheat bread last night. As usual, I photograph the entire process from beginning to end. I have some great photos here....

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Blackberry Fest Bread of Elma Washington


Blackberry Fest Bread - Proposed Official Dessert of Elma Washington

Naomi and her handmade braided sweet bread
 As some of you may know by now, my home town is Elma Washington. I have lived all over the world - Geneva, Paris, New York, Mexico City - but little Elma Washington is my home town. So in honor of my hometown I created a new traditional treat for the Elma Summer Festival held in Elma Washington every August. 

I remember when Elma had its Slug Festival. Then it was changed to the Blackberry Festival, and now it looks like that has been changed to the Outlaw Festival. After careful thought, I realized that both 'slugs'and óutlaws' are not good for the image of poor little Elma. Slugs are disgusting, and we certainly do not want to glorify criminals or outlaws. 

I decided to make my own contribution to Elma Washington by inventing a special pastry to be served during their yearly late summer festival. I am going to ask the City of Elma to consider making this dessert the Official Dessert of Elma Washington.  I would like to introduce you to Blackberry Fest Bread. This is a dessert that I invented myself.  If it is made perfectly, it is a delicious and attractive recipe that people will love both looking at....and eating. 

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Blackberry Wine and Syrup Suppliers

It is always challenging to start a new project, one that I have never tried before. This might seem shocking to people who know me in the real world, but I doubt myself all the time. I never really know if I am doing things right. I am very good at gathering information,  but sometimes I am just too lazy to flesh out things. The problem is that I take on so much, I do so much, that I cannot give all of my projects the attention they deserve. Well, that is my moment of self loathing...

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My Blackberry Plans This Year

Hello Everybody,


Coming to a breakfast table near you
If you read my gardening blog, you would know that blackberry season in Washington State (late July-August) is one of my favorite times of the year. I am a forager, like a soldier wandering the landscape for provisions, I raid our blackberry bushes with the boundless energy of a toddler. I do not tire of it. My eyes constantly scanning the bushes for hidden bundles of sweet blackberries hanging from the vine.Blackberries are free in Washington State! Anyone can pick them. But no one can pick them the way I do. 

So hop on over to Naomi´s Garden if you want to hear all about it. I do not post too much on my gardening blog right now because all I am growing are potatoes, carrots, strawberries, grape tomatoes and basil. When  we get a house, or a small farm, I will write more about my adventures in the garden. For now, it is Naomi´s adventures in the kitchen. 

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