Hungry for posts!

Henry gets hungry on the way home just thinking about Edible, Inedible.

Toast with peanut butter

and pears. I love pears.

Cake attack!

Devoted reader Constance baked the cake that makes her famous in these parts -- a sour cream chocolate cake. She left the masterpiece on the couter to cool while she slept, and awoke to rustling sounds in her kitchen. Connie assumed this was her roommate making a fresh pot of cofee, so she was quite startled to see a SQUIRREL ON TOP OF HER CAKE!!

The squirrel was quite starled to see Connie, too! A camera was not found until right after the intruder darted back out the hole from which he entered.

I think those tiny marks are his feet!

So we have a guest chef post here combined with an unsolicited guest food critic.

Sunday Dot-Luck!

Sunday night Potluck in Dorchester! It's a new thing, so far so good. As I learned last week, what Sunday night really needs is a great dinner with friends, so here we have it. We have several guest chef entries from dinner tonight (guest chefs are encouraged to post comments with the specifics of their dish!) :


Julia and Dave made a spicy crab dip in a bread bowl. It was really tasty, and we snacked on this while cooking in the kitchen.



Jesse brought a delicious spring lentil salad, with mint and feta cheese. It was awesome and pretty. She grew the mint herself!


Ben brought a salad with all kind of exciting veggies tossed in, like snowpeas. But the best part was the dressing - with curry powder!


I made savory pancakes with cornmeal, salamai, fresh scallions, corn and red peppers (see below). I forgot to take a picture of the final product, but you can see them in the salad picture, in the upper left. Jess beat the egg whites (see above), and I folded these in to give the pancakes some structure and keep them fluffy. The cornmeal was coarse ground, so I soaked it in the milk while I prepped everything else.

The recipe is the JOC basic pancake recipe, with a few changes: no sugar, more salt and some pepper, sub cornmeal for half the flour, and adding in the chopped stuff listed above.


I love the Dot-Pot!

Kimchi!

I joined a yahoo group about fermented food. So far the posts are pretty awesome. I started craving kimchi a few days ago (when I joined the group), and the craving slowly took over my life. I bought this kimchi at a small Japanese market that only had one brand - I wasn't sure if they would even carry kimchi so I was happy. It is so-so, but did the trick. The best place I have found to get kimchi (so far) is a Korean market in Union Square, Somerville.

Once I met a someone who has a grandmother in Korea who makes kimchi in a huge vat that she buries in her back yard to ferment. The next time I meet someone with a granny like this, I plan on proposing immediately.

Ducks!

I am lucky to have devoted readers who are rabid for fresh posts. So, while you wait for the next culinary adventure, here are some ducks at a farm in central Massachusetts. Quack! I did not buy a duck, but they had whole ducks for sale in the freezer. The last time I ate duck was in Cleveland.

And a timely reminder: Gest Chef entries = More Posts. Here at Edible, Inedible, we love to see what you cook.

Roasted Veggie Salad

For dinner last night I roased some asparagus, peppers, and a small onion. I popped the peppers under the broiler for a minute at the end. I let all veggies cool to just warmer than room temp. and scooped them over some spinach leaves and a little parmesian. Tons of leftovers are waiting for me! I might make the leftovers into a pasta dish.