Last night’s dinner (fourth week of Feb 2008)

Also cross-posted on my MySpace blog.
Yesterday was my sister’s birthday, so I made her a dish that has become one of her favorites. It’s similar to a dish I had at a pasta restaurant last time I was in Portland, I think the dish was called “carbonara”. Simply put, it’s pasta with peas, bacon and [...]

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Monster cookie recipe

I really thought I had already posted this recipe, but I can’t find it here, so I’m posting (or maybe reposting???) it.
Monster Cookies
Ingredients:

1 lb unsalted butter
2 lb brown sugar
2 c white sugar
12 eggs
1 Tbs vanilla
1 Tbs karo syrup
2 Tbs baking soda
3 lb crunchy peanut butter (we usually use Jif)
1 pkg mini chips 12 oz (see [...]

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Upside-Down Apple Cake

This is adapted from the “upside-down toffee apple brownies” recipe in the book Blissful Brownies, ISBN 978-1-4054-9127-3.
Bake time: 35-40 minutes at 350 C, 9-inch square or similar sized pan
Ingredients:

Topping

generous 1/3 c dark brown sugar
1/2 stick or 1/4 c unsalted butter
1 apple, cored and thinly sliced (I’ve had good luck with Braeburns and Fujis, but you [...]

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