Featured Recipes
Cumin lamb and lentil chili I hope you boys and girls like lamb. Yesterday we went to a cash and carry and bought a huge amount of minced lamb which is now sitting in my freezer waiting to be used in future meals. My mind started to run through all the lamb dishes I knew but I was looking for [...]
Secret Recipe Club: Crockpot Chicken Congee Well, it’s Secret Recipe Club time again! This time around, we were assigned Oh! You Cook!, a blog focusing on delicious Kosher food. There’s a lot of wonderful recipes over there, and if you’re looking for some Passover inspiration, it’s definitely a good place to start! However, lately in Seattle our weather has been complete [...]
Velvet Chicken and Asparagus Stir-fry I am a terrible blogger. I got a new job, and I’ve been house hunting, and…well, I’ve had a lot of excuses for being too scatterbrained to blog. Lately I either think to cook or have a camera on-hand, but the twain have not met to give me a recipe to post. UNTIL NOW. This [...]
St. Patrick's Day Roundup It’s the time of year when everyone in America remembers that their great-great-something-or-other might have come from Ireland-or-maybe-it-was-Scotland-who-knows. This also means that food bloggers around the country do a round up of everything Irish, or even just green. So, here’s ours! Whether you anticipate a day full of drunken “Kiss me, I’m Irish!” antics, or [...]
Smoked Mackerel Pate This month in the Secret Recipe Club we were assigned Karen’s blog Lavender and Lovage. Karen blogs about British food and the customs that often surround them. She also blogs some wonderful French recipes, as she splits her time between North Yorkshire and the South West of France. Karen’s blog is full of gorgeous pictures and [...]
Recent Recipes
Roasted Leeks and Apples
Comments (3) | October 17, 2011
So, it will probably surprise no one that reads this (hi mom): Lucy and I are big nerds. And, aside from food, one of the things we like to geek out about is Greco-Roman nerdery. We both took a lot of classes on the stuff, and have done a lot of reading. So now that [...]
Salmorejo
Comments (0) | October 07, 2011
Another Spanish recipe for you all today. Can I recommend Spain as a holiday destination for anyone who is looking to eat and eat and eat while they’re away? That’s what we did while we were there. In fancy restaurants, in roadside cafes, in tiny bars in the middle of Seville and on the patio [...]
Saffron Albondigas
Comments (0) | September 30, 2011
During my visit to the UK, Lucy was fresh off a holiday as well. She had just come back from Spain, and was waxing poetic about all the wonderful food. So, considering the dreich weather, we decided to try to bring a little Spanish sunshine back to Edinburgh, in the form of tapas. And adding saffron: [...]
Chilli Beef and Lime Noodle Salad
Comments (0) | September 20, 2011
I found myself with too many limes last week. I had bought plenty when my mother came to visit in anticipation of many cocktails and G&T’s but between going out a lot, antibiotics and having to go to work the next day this didn’t really come to pass. So instead I ended up looking [...]
Double the Sugar Con 11 – Raspberry Tart
Comments (0) | September 10, 2011
Things have been a little quiet around the blog lately, but for very good reason. For the first time EVER, Shannon and Lucy cooked together. While we met in Edinburgh, and bonded over food at Cadbury World, we hadn’t really started cooking until after Shannon moved back to the States. And with life getting in [...]
BBQ Pulled Pork
Comments (0) | July 26, 2011
Ok, this recipe isn’t quick, but it has extremely little hands-on time. Why am I trying to pass off such a simple recipe? Because I’m lazy? Well…sorta, but mostly because I’m just about to get some travelling in. Where? Back to Edinburgh! So there will be a little Double the Sugar Convention while I visit [...]
Baked Fish
Comments (0) | July 17, 2011
I have quite a few cookbooks in my kitchen, not to mention a food magazine subscription and a springpad account full of recipe bookmarks. I tend to use cookbooks in cycles, using one a lot and then discarding it for the new flavour of the month so sometimes I need a reminder of the books [...]
Bourbon-Cherry Brownies
Comments (1) | July 06, 2011
Like many things, baked goods are better with booze. Either to accompany them or as part of the recipe, you really can’t go wrong. I particularly like using booze in frostings, they can add a lot of flavor, and has the double benefit of not being able to boil off, so you still feel a [...]
Aubergine, or eggplant, cooked in the pickling style
Comments (0) | June 27, 2011
Yes that is a title and a half but this is a recipe worthy of it. This is another wonderful recipe from the great Madhur Jaffrey. The cookbook I own, simply named Curries, doesn’t appear to be available anymore but I have a feeling that you’ll be in good hands with any of her recipe [...]
Secret Ingredient Chocolate Mousse
Comments (5) | June 20, 2011
I don’t normally go for vegan recipes. I can skip the meat, but a lot of times the ingredients used in place of the animal by-products aren’t as healthy as people make them out to be. This recipe, however, is vegan as well as all-natural. There aren’t any chemicals or substitutes or artificial flavors. The [...]
