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A Soup By Any Other Name

Sometimes I’ll be at home and I’ve already cooked dinner, and I’ve already made lunch for tomorrow (and the next day) yet I still feel like cooking. Well, this is when it gets dangerous. Especially this time of year with all of the amazing vegetables available from the farmers market. Actually, let me take that a half step back.

I’ve finally had my first fight with the market. I could deal with the limiting hours (only 9-1 on Saturdays from May through November); I could deal with the price spikes (a bunch of parsley for 3 bucks instead of 50 cents at Bestway); but I was not prepared for invaders.

So I was taking lettuce out to be washed for a salad and all of a fucking sudden – there was a SPIDER in my bag-o-greens. I didn’t scream. I backed away. I was pisted. I was scared. And then I gently tied the bag together – spider inside – and threw it in the trash. My love affair hit its first bump. And I might be off the salad for the rest of the summer.

Regardless, so there I am, in the kitchen, having already cooked what most people don’t even put together in a week, and I’m ready for more.

Recipe for something, post jump

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Calling All Refrigerator Contents

This past weekend was the first in a LONG time that I’ve been home. And it feels good, especially to have time to cook. And as breakfast food is my favorite, I have fun simply scrambling eggs or straight making shit up. This weekend fell in the latter category. Going by this general idea of a frittata, I threw in tons of half-empty, soon to be spoiled, contents of my fridge.

Continue reading for the next chapter in gansie vs. ricotta

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Real Men Do Eat Quiche*

Editors Note: Bad Editor! ES friend Aaron sent this post a wicked long time ago. But, I’ve been lazy on downloading the pic to go with it. Here’s what he made for our breakfast-for-dinner Project Runway party. And note his squash confusion too!

This weekend I celebrated my 22nd birthday and went to Rehoboth Beach with my boyfriend. We had a yummy brunch at Blue Moon where I ordered the Individual Breakfast Tart.

It made my mouth feel so good, I immediately thought I must have done something wrong and be punished.

I have this great group of friends that gets together weekly to watch Project Runway and share food.

So for this week’s breakfast themed Project Runway Dinner, I knew what I had to do: make the tart!

I enlisted the help of my housemate, Kashuo.

We went to the grocery and ran into Liza, who helped me find the parchment paper.

I could not for the life of me find zucchinis, even though I walked right past them a bunch of times, but they were labeled green squashes. And I thought that might be something different. But they’re really not. I was like: damn, those green squashes look so much like zucchinis!

I asked a young man stocking shelves wearing his supermarket employee uniform if he could help me find pastry shells. He looked at me like I had asked for a thesis, a pint of blood, his Social Security number, and his first-adopted son!

Turns out a tart and a quiche are basically the same thing.

Click through for the recipe

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Egg Post, Just One More Time

I know, it’s like not even funny anymore. I like eggs. I like eggs for lunch. I like eggs for dinner. I like eggs. Well, I finally decided to do something about it . I wrote about it. The mighty power of the pen. Or something like that.

In my latest feature outside of ES I highlighted the very few places where a DC resident can find an effing egg for lunch (and not covered in mayo in an egg salad, not that I don’t love the sandwich every once in a while.)

Regardless, I beg of you to tell me more places in downtown DC that won’t give me attitude if I order an egg and cheese on a begal.

Oh, and quick story.

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A Quark In The Road

After all of the yolk craziness (check almost any post I’ve written in the past few weeks) I decided to try my hand at an omelet. I know that it has an art of its own and that the way I beat my eggs, swirl them around the pan and dollop ingredients on the egg, is probably all wrong. But I find them delicious nonetheless.

Besides egg dishes being totally luscious, I think they’re great fridge-cleansers as well. 80P and I are away this weekend for yet another wedding (love you Jules!) so I needed to use up some bits and pieces from around the apartment. Of course eggs were to be found, as well as a few other key ingredients, most importantly – Quark.

I bought Quark from the same dairy producer, Keswick Creamery, where I bought the yogurt for the smoothie:

Quark: German – style cream cheese. Smooth and tangy. Products are made with fresh, pasteurized Jersey milk.

And yes, it’s very tangy, and yes, it’s creamy and thick just like cream cheese. Do I think it’s much better than regular cream cheese, eh, not that different. Is their yogurt that much better than the high fructose corn syrup, artificially flavored supermarket yogurt – yes. But I digress.

Post jump – my fridge clearing omelet and some hidden agendas.

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A Midsummer Afternoon’s Snack

Over the weekend I performed some major procrastination (including this post.) It was my monthly I’m-grounded-I-have-4-articles-due-on-Monday weekend. So instead of writing, I spent a lot of time in the kitchen. I’ll be sure to post about my big baking adventure, but my afternoon snack’s success really made me proud.

In the morning I made my weekly trip to the farmers market and picked up peaches, blackberries and yogurt (among millions of other produce). The dairy stand is where it’s at! Oh, and let me make this clear – I hate yogurt. But, and I’m not kidding, tasting so much genuine frozen yogurt prepped me for the real stuff. And, the Keswick Creamery stand offers plenty of samples (!) so I decided to try their version:

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Johnny-Corn-Lately

I know what you’re thinking:

Wow, Gansie put a fried egg on something. How fucking original. I love seeing the same thing over and over on ES.

Actually, this post is about something I baked. But 80 liked this picture best, so I had to put it on top. The picture directly below actually shows what the post is about, see top. Yes, I baked. Yes, I cheated.

I’ll explain.

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