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    Dried Fruit, nuts, Pacific Organic soups, spelt and quinoa
  • Abbott's Table Wine
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  • Sineann Wines
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  • "There is a difference between dining and eating. Dining is an art. When you eat to get the most out of your meal, to please the palate, just as well to satiate the appetite, that, my friend, is dining." Yuan Mei, 1936
  • “If it’s red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that’s left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it’s probably Burgundy” Jay McInerny
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  • If you're going to put something in your mouth, make it good.
    wellfed.typepad.com
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    -Alice Waters' fundamental guidelines, The Art of Simple Food, 2007
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    The Paris Times, June 2006
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    Headline in the International Herald Tribune, Thursday June 8, 2006
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    Colin exclaimed while wine tasting in Chateauneuf du Pape
  • "You got screwed, my friend."
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  • "Squiddy-boy"
    What Frederic, the maitre d' and proprietor of Hotel d'Alibert, called Colin after ordering calamari.
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    A sign along the road in the Languedoc region of France. May 2006
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    The classic mash-up of Tony Bennett and AC-DC; as sung by German tourists, La restaurante "La Grigina", Sorrento, Italy
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    Shane C, 4/10/2006; at Lompoc 5Q, North Portland
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    Bruce B. Proprietor of Vino in Sellwood
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    Dr. Chestnut, 4/1/2006
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    Daniel, server at Ripe, 3/29/2006

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July 08, 2008

Go Big or Go Home Brownies

51VGM619KSL._SS400_Everyone loves brownies.  And if you don't there must be something seriously wrong with you.  While I do have a favorite brownie recipe I'm always up to try another.  So when I saw "Brownie Points" by Lisa Slater in the library, I snatched that up in a hurry.   This book pays the deepest homage to the sinfully decadent square and all things you would like to eat with said square (fudge and butterscotch sauces, glazes and ganaches).  And it pushes the envelope of "browniedom" with cookies, cakes, muffins and bread.
I started with the "Classic" recipe and spiced it up, literally.  Here's the recipe straight out of the book...




Download classic_brownie_recipe_from_brownie_points_by_lisa_slater.doc

We are entered in a Chili Cook-off this coming weekend, so I thought I would make these as my "bribes" for the judges. 

IMG_0848 I took the classic recipe and added chopped pecans and chocolate nibs to the batter.  Once the brownies were cooled I slathered them in a chocolate glaze with bourbon and cayenne peppers (it's really good).  And if that wasn't enough, I topped each morsel with a Sweet and Spicy Pecan.  Oh.  My.  God. 

I don't know if they will last...

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