Bourgeois Bee

Baked Eggs

nobody@vox.com(Bourgeois Bee) — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:07:58 -0700

Inspired by a passing line in the book Heat and my new found wonder for farm fresh eggs (not to mention the stock pile of ramekins we now posses) I've been experimenting with baked eggs. I have another egg post in the works (OK it's a little dorma...

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Braised Fennel

nobody@vox.com(Bourgeois Bee) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:00:41 -0700

More fennel, this time a French take on this bulbous herb. Braising, a popular cooking method utilized by many folks around the world for tough cuts of meat, shouldn't be reserved just for protein. It gives a nice slow cooked flavor, a little cara...

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Pizza Friday!

nobody@vox.com(Bourgeois Bee) — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:50:56 -0700

If you haven't gathered this already, Meghan likes pizza. One result of this pizza adoration is our now standing tradition of having pizza for dinner on Fridays. This works well for me too as nothing sounds better at the end of the work week than ...

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Caramelized Fennel

nobody@vox.com(Bourgeois Bee) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:57:28 -0700

To help motivate me to actually post something and break the cycle of starting a handful of posts only to let them hover half-done in hidden mode for months I'm going to make it short and sweet today. Caramelized fennel. I've mentioned before I'm ...

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Cherry Cobbler

nobody@vox.com(Bourgeois Bee) — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:58:21 -0700

Sometimes dishes necessitate their creation by me walking around and surfing the internet and spotting either an interesting recipe or ingredient. This cherry cobbler is the combination of both when I saw the recipe on Heidi's site and Bing cherri...

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Everybody's Doing a Brand New Dance Now...

nobody@vox.com(Bourgeois Bee) — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:08:49 -0700

Come on baby, do the Locavation! Maybe it's the media outlets that I purposely consume, but in the past week I can't get away from one word LocavoreLocavore was touted as the word of the year in 2007 by the New Oxford American Dictionary and ro...

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Taco Night

nobody@vox.com(Bourgeois Bee) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:13:46 -0700

I'm not sure if Taco Night is still in the American dinner repertoire, but Meghan and I tried our hand at it for the first time in a few years recently. (Upon googling "taco night" I found this Onion piece, making me believe taco night is alive al...

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Bastille Day / Bouchon Night

nobody@vox.com(Bourgeois Bee) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:16:50 -0700

In honor of Bastille Day I'm posting a spread of photos I took while making the menu Meghan and I ate at Bouchon. Although I said it in my previous post on the French Laundry Cookbooks vegetable stock, I've learned countless French cooking fundam...

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Vegetable Stock - The Best

nobody@vox.com(Bourgeois Bee) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:50:27 -0700

Heres the first in my promised Taking Stock series. I'm starting off with The Best, followed by The Rest, and The Mirepoix. Stocks ans Sauces (pg 220 - The French Laundry Cookbook) You can't have a good sauce if you start with bad stock. Too many...

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Grilled Potato Salad

nobody@vox.com(Bourgeois Bee) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:18:35 -0700

Chances are if you're attending or hosting a 4th of July get together this weekend, potato salad will be involved. Usually it's potato salad purchased from a deli or one that comes in a tub, both utilizing mayonnaise as the binder. But instead of ...

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