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Kathryn Huxtable

Kathryn Huxtable

Quiche Lorraine

Servings: 8 Source: Smitten Kitchen/Le Pain Quotidien Ingredients Tart Shell: 1⅓ cups AP flour 1⅔ tablespoon cornstarch 1/4 tsp salt 6 tablespoons butter, diced 1 egg Filling: 1¾ cups diced leeks (2 large leeks) ¾ cup diced onion 2½ teaspoons olive oil 3 eggs ½ cup heavy cream plus 1

I want to code, not fiddle with tools

I’ve spent a good deal of the morning dealing with issues between Eclipse (my IDE), Subversive (the subversion integration for Eclipse), and M2Eclipse (the Maven integration for Eclipse). (Subversion is a version control system.) Gaah….

Worst song in the world

I have a friend who believes that “Crystal Blue Persuasion” is the worst song in the world. I don’t agree. It’s just boring, sort of like anything by Air Supply or Bread. (If I never hear “Diary” again it’ll be too soon.) Denise thinks that maybe “Escape”

I made the cauliflower and caramelized onion tart from smitten kitchen

There was this recipe recently on Smitten Kitchen for a cauliflower and caramelized onion tart, which I made last night. It was wonderful! It’s actually a cross between a tart and a quiche, because it has a custard filling. Very yummy. It made leftovers.

Multicultural stir-fry

So I’m at home with some sort of sore throat and runny nose, and I wanted some good food to both fill me up and to ease my sinuses. I made Kathryn’s multicultural stir-fry. This time it was British-American-Asian. I started out British by chopping a turnip into

Okay, who ordered more snow?

The snow from a week ago had just about cleared off. Now we’re getting very large clusters of flakes coming down heavy and falling quickly. The streets and grounds are getting that white sheen again. I thought we were through with this…

Sea Glass now on Maven Central repository

We released version 0.1.6.1 a few days ago. This has very few changes from the 0.1.6 release, the main one being that we are signing the jars and putting them on the Maven Central repository at http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/, in particular: http://repo1.

Strawberry Dressing

Source: Dr. Ben Kim Ingredients 8 large strawberries ½ cup extra virgin olive oil ¼ cup apple cider vinegar or freshly squeezed lemon juice ¼ cup water 1 clove garlic 1 teaspoon honey Description This delicious strawberry vinaigrette is rich in vitamin C and a group of antioxidants called phenols. The unique combination

Pear Bread

Sort of like banana bread, but better!

Best Cocoa Brownies

Servings: 16 larger or 25 smaller brownies Source: Alice Mendrich’s Bittersweet Ingredients 10 tablespoons unsalted butter 1¼ cups sugar ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder plus 2 tablespoons ¼ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon vanilla extract 2 large eggs cold ½ cup all-purpose flour ⅔ cup walnut or pecan pieces optional Directions Position a rack in