a slice of bars

Benjamins Winter Bars

so with some extra sour cream (yes) left over, I sought to modified this recipe into a more delectable afternoon snack or morning treat.

A few changes:

• made in a spring form pan and cut into little slices

• 2 c. craisins
• 1/2 c. white sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch (mix this w/ a bit of h20 before adding to mixture)
• 1 1/2 c. sour cream
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• slowly mix all this stuff over LOW heat (you don't want scrambled eggs, do you?)

This is the crumble that gets split into bottom (pressed down) and sprinkled on top:

• 1 c. packed brown sugar
• 1 3/4 c. rolled oats (opt: replace ~1/2 c. w/ wheat germ)
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 3/4 c. mix of AP flour and wheat flour
• 1 cup butter, softened

This is probably one of my top 3 favorite "bar" recipes.  *win*

Morning Glory muffin madness

BenSchellack convinced me to make him the world's largest muffins...so I did!

Frittata di Schellack

A delicious mistake: (serves 4)

Frittata di Schellack

della Cucina Schellack 

serves 4, Oven = brolier-low

• eggs (6)
• spinach (10oz)
• diced tomatoes (4 pealed plum)
• mozzarella
• drunken goat (hard) cheese to sprinkle

whisk eggs. coat spinach in it.   throw into a large cast iron. toss everything else into it.

cook on stove until set. (med-low, ~5 minutes; do NOT overcook! it should still be runny)

move to oven until eggs are just cooked through. (cheese should be ever so slightly brown).

sprinkle hard cheese on top.

enjoy!

nothing beats an overflowing glass of beer

HENNEPIN 

Farmhouse Saison

by Ommegang Brewery

How can it not be good?  It's from the same town baseball was born!

strawberry limoncello sorbet

Thank you, Vitamix.

Boston ICA

2008

Being at the ICA for the first time is better than seeing it in photos and dissecting it to pieces. In addition to the High Line Park, this makes Diller+Scofidio one of my top architects (James Corner/field Operations goes without saying)...