break-ie

quince almond cake

December 10, 2010

The recipe for this marvelous quince and almond quick bread comes from the delightful Chocolate and Zucchini. I’ve recently stumbled across Clotilde’s site and have been a fan since. According to her “about,” she’s French and lives in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris. Already that seems pretty glamorous, sitting as I do in my apartment [...]

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huevos rancheros for dinner?

December 1, 2010

Yes we can! I have been craving huevos rancheros for a while, but I never feel like having them for breakfast somehow. I used to make this when Steven and I started going out. We both had crazy schedules. Steven moonlighted almost every Friday night to make some extra cash. I always had Saturdays off. [...]

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PPO: pumpkin pie obsession, better known as healthier-than-it-should-be pumpkin pie

November 29, 2010

I do not know what has come over me, but I have this overwhelming urge to eat and fully enjoy pumpkin pie. It might be because it is the season for pumpkins and pumpkins are just everywhere. Also the food advertisements that come in bright colors in the mail every other day make holiday meals [...]

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apple pear cinnamon cake

November 23, 2010

The other day our neighbor Ann gave us two big bags full of delicious pears and apples she grows in her country home south of San Francisco along the California Central Coast. Everything that she produces is organic. In the past she’s given us zucchini, Japanese eggplant, basil, bok choy greens, lemons and more. Thank [...]

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Brazilian creamy sweet yellow corn cake

October 11, 2010

Steven is in doubt whether this dish really is a corn cake rather than a corn soufflé or a corn flan. To me, if you’re even debating this absurd point, then the cake is already a huge success. Once again, I tried to reproduce another of my mother’s recipes. As I remember, her cake was [...]

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orange cling peach oatmeal cobbler

September 10, 2010

In hindsight, I think that the peach tree we had in our backyard when I was a kid had to have been an Orange Cling. The fruit were never as big as these ones I got the other day at the Alemany farmers market. Perhaps they’re “super-sized” to look more attractive? Whatever the reason, these [...]

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Sean Timberlake’s strawberry jam with balsamic and black pepper

September 6, 2010

We at weirdcombinations had the pleasure of meeting Sean Timberlake from Hedonia and now, his latest blog-venture, Punk Domestics, a while back for drinks and pizza at the oh-so-trendy Mission hot-spot, Beretta. Sean and Hegui had been corresponding for a while, and both Hegui and I had been admiring Hedonia since we started blogging last [...]

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sweet potato ginger bread

August 13, 2010

I’m getting more engrossed in Stephan Pyles’ The New Texas Cuisine. This recipe comes directly from the book. He calls for pumpkin but recommends sweet potatoes as an alternative if pumpkin isn’t in season. I made this quick bread following the directions but ran into some problems. I think that I ended up with too [...]

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Rainier cherry almond cake

July 26, 2010

Whenever we go food and cook ware shopping in the Richmond District, we try to go to Green Apple Books before hitting Richmond New May Wah and Kamei House Wares. They’re all near one another on Clement Street, which makes it convenient so long as we’ve scheduled enough time. Time is an issue as we [...]

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biscoito de polvilho azedo AKA sour manioc biscuit

July 9, 2010

Growing up in the countryside in Brazil was not fun in the sense that we didn’t have a bakery to go to every morning to get bread. On the other hand, it was great because my mother liked to bake. She had a rustic wood burning oven built outside the house near the kitchen in [...]

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