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  • 2024/05/07 22:34
• my banana bounty
  
  I’ve pilfered oodles of muffin tops in my day, leaving behind only the stumpy muffin cores. No shame.
  
  The muffins are moist and soft in the middle with a slight bit of chewiness around the edges of the muffin top. Throw in the texture from the sugar granules, and it’s a perfect bite.
  
  The muffin tops remind me of snow-capped mountains. They’re are as close to snow as I prefer to come.
  
  I hit the jackpot when I recently snagged a big bundle of discounted bananas. Beat up and tired, practically free, and perfect for banana muffins, banana bread, and banana smoothies. When I saw Nikki’s muffins, I knew I had to try a version of her recipe with my banana bounty.
  
  I’m sure everyone knows this tip, but you can peel overripe bananas, break them into chunks, place in a Ziplock, and freeze. That way anytime you need ripe bananas for baking or smoothies, you’re set.
  
  It’s an easy, no mixer recipe, with the perfect amount of chocolate to satisfy your chocolate cravings without being too intense for a breakfast muffin, and the chocolate dominates the banana flavor. No complaints there.
  
  There’s both cocoa powder and mini chocolate chips in the muffin batter and although you can use regular-sized chips, I love mini chips in muffins because they melt much more evenly and don’t sink to the bottom as easily.
  
  The recipe makes 13 or 14 muffins, or 1 dozen plus a mini loaf. I love my mini loaf pans for that extra little bit of batter that I hate throwing out, but refuse to dirty another muffin pan for a couple muffins. The loaf pan fits perfectly next to the muffin pan on the same oven rack so everything bakes evenly.
  
  Chocolate-banana cake disguised as muffins. Definitely a keeper.
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  • shenghou
  • 2014/10/27 10:29
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• Minus the luxuriant furs
  
  The middle of the night – twenty past midnight, to be exact - but look out of the window and it’s mid afternoon. The sun is shining bright, people strolling through the streets. You know – nonchalantly going about their day to day business. The world is upside down: topsy turvy. I am Alice and I have stepped through the looking glass. And these are the Russian white nights, when the sun seemingly never sets.  Last week I travelled to Russia. Two nights in Moscow – just long enough to walk through Red Square, take in the Kremlin, indulge in a bowl of chilled summer borsch and cheer from the stalls at The Bolshoi. Then on and up north – across the flat lands of the Russian countryside – to St Petersburg. By train – all very Anna Karenina. Minus the luxuriant furs.
  
  They call St Petersburg the Venice of the North. Although I’m not all too sure why. Like Venice it is a magnificent city. But beyond that - Venice is a small, sleepy town, where everyone knows everyone and the background hum of motorboats is comforting and familiar. St Petersburg, on the other hand, is a city – in the truest sense of the word. It is dramatic. The palaces, the boulevards, the rush of cars, the fading gold and the black dirt. The Metro stations are ballrooms with malachite pillars and splendid statues – grand enough to host a party for a thousand. The markets – all white pillars and dusty floors – sell caviar by the kilo. Blinding bright white light, cold wind, black bread and honey cake – oh, the heavenly honey cake! -, shimmering gold leaf, ostentatiously vaulted ceilings and garden follies – is St Petersburg. Fountains, semiprecious stones and babushkas – these are my memories of a foreign and electrifying city. My memories – of the other side of the looking glass.
  • shenghou
  • 2014/07/18 16:04
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• freezer aisle
  
  You guys. Rarely do I get this excited about chicken fingers loop. Mostly because when I think of chicken fingers, I think of those over-battered things you get from the freezer aisle in the grocery, which you then either attempt to eat frozen (ew) or you microwave until they melt. Ketchup is the only salvation, and ketchup is gross LED Color Temperature.
  
  Not these. These are DELICIOUS with a capital D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S. Plus, honey mustard is my favorite thing in the entire world, so we're really going for the gold here. They're tender, slightly sweet, warm, crunchy, pepper-y and filling. My goodness. Make extra; you'll want it baby carrier.
  • shenghou
  • 2014/06/19 16:21
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• It’s always healthy
  
  People are always asking me what I eat  during the course of the day.  I thought I would start sharing some of my go-to meals with you.  I love to eat lunch in my kitchen.  If at all possible, I will come home from wherever I am and make myself lunch. This lunch bowl is my favorite thing to have for lunch.  When I come home from the market, my rule is that I have to wash and/or cook a lot of vegetables before I put them in the fridge.  Because of that, this lunch bowl is an easy go-to meal for me china virtual office.
  I vary the contents depending on what I have in the fridge at the time, but it always contains a lot of greens, some cooked veggies, nuts or seeds and fruit. I like a good variety of textures and flavors. As a rule of thumb, the largest percentage in the bowl is made up of dark greens. I always include something crunchy and something sweet. I also like something warm to play against all of the cool greens. Sometimes I’ll make a vinaigrette or sometimes I’ll just squeeze a lemon on top and drizzle a good oil over it all with a sprinkle of sea salt. It’s always healthy and it’s always delicious healthy lifestyle.
  This particular bowl contained spinach and mache for the leafy greens. I also used some mustard micro greens. I buy whatever micro greens are available at the market. Micro greens have all of the nutrition of the larger variety, but they have even more concentrated nutrients. Also, they are just plain pretty. When I was in cooking school, we used them to garnish plates; now, I use them for the great nutritional punch they pack.
  I almost always use something red in my salad. As a general rule, red foods help nourish the blood. Beets help calm the mind, soothe irritability and help relieve constipation. Pomegranate seeds are good if you are experiencing diarrhea and they are good for anemia Natural stone.
  So, here’s how I built this bowl…
  • shenghou
  • 2014/05/21 16:54
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• leave complimentary
  
  I would like to thank my agent. (I’ve always wanted to say that.) Josh, thank you for continuing to take my calls and hustle for me even though I have yet to make you a single dollar. Hopefully this fancy new site will make your job easier. 2013 is our year Alexander Hera.
  
  Last but not least, I want to thank my readers (which miraculously include more than just my family, my friends, Logan and my agent). I’m feeling scarily emotional today, so I just want to get this one thing out…I love you, invisible internet friends, and I appreciate you. I can’t tell you how humbled I am by the fact that you take time out of your very busy and important schedules to read this blog versace bags.
  
  The fact that some of you leave complimentary comments or send me flattering emails is truly icing on this blogger’s cake. It makes my day when you ask me a cooking question (I feel so skilled and knowledgeable), tell me that you made one of my recipes (you’re so domestic), share a Dude Diet success (wonderland bodies everywhere), or contact me just to say that you too get panic attacks (solidarity!). I literally want to hug each and every one of you.
  
  In honor of this momentous occasion in Domesticate Me’s history, I whipped up something special. While I considered doing a “Happy Rebirth-Day” cake of some sort, or perhaps a strong champagne cocktail, I decided that today called for real food. So without further ado, I give you Grilled Halibut Tacos with Peach Salsa headphone amp.
  • shenghou
  • 2014/05/21 16:49
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