RECIPE: BACON BUNS

ok let's not draw too much attention to how i just spent an entire morning drawing photoshop faces on bacon buns {but molly what is it you do during your days? he said over fried squid and pho. well when i haven't got a glockenspiel part to prepare and when i'm procrastinating that article, it's this.} but i'm well happy i got around to it because if at the new music bake sale i charged people one dollar for just asking for this recipe, i would have doubled my earnings.

it's a swell little recipe, methinks. one that i've made since i was a wee one {only for the longest time my family used roasted chickens}. i think the bacon adds a nice little bite. and with these you don't really need an external dipping sauce of sorts because it is all up in the filling already.

-yeh! 

RECIPE: SRIRACHA CHEEZ-ITS

once upon a vending machine, cheez-its were my jump off whenever some magical force of nature prevented me from choosing the healthier pretzel option because cheez-its are, hands down, the pimped out drug lord of the vending machine. which is my prudish attempt at drawing a parallel between these and crack. at one point last year i used some absurdly delicious old chatham cheese to make cheez-its, and just today i revisited this recipe in my quest to find something savory to sell at the new music bake sale. 

i've about eaten the entire batch today and i don't feel bad about it.

actually yes i do.

but it was worth it.

-yeh!

RECIPE: SWEET POTATO HAMANTASCHEN

there are days when you only eat vegetables and then there are days when you only eat hamantaschen. around these parts we like to call the latter "taking the dollar now." as opposed to saving up your dollars to feel "good" at the end of the day. you know? as in, this weekend i felt super good and happy as i ate about twelve thousand hamantaschen right in a row, but on sunday night my belly h88888ed me. with a capital 8. which isn't to deter you from making these... rather it's to encourage you to make them because they are so good but you should keep some extra humans on hand to help eat them.

oh p.s. if you're like what is a hamantaschen? what is a chag purim? letmegooglethatforyou {bc gods only know i'd get the purim story mixed in with the easter bunny.} 

p.p.s. be on the lookout soon for black sesame hamantaschen and sacrilege spinach + gruyere hamantaschen!

recipe: hamantaschen dough

{based on betty doman's hamantaschen, courtesy of anne schulman {mother of brian of "brian is numnums"}}

2 sticks of butter, softened

4 oz cream cheese, softened

1 egg yolk

pinch of salt

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

powdered sugar, for dusting

in a large bowl with an electric mixer, beat butter, cream cheese, egg yolk, and salt. add flour, half a cup at a time, to form a dough. wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for two hours.

-yeh!

RECIPE: ASIAN SLIDERS

i made sliders based on my family's potsticker filling recipe because i am completely dumpling-ed out in this moment {the past few weeks my hands have formed probably hundreds of dumplings} but i somehow can't get past the delightful combination of fresh ginger and green onions all together in meaty solidarity.

the soft steamed buns provide a wonderful vehicle for these puppies, but they are also great served on a bed of sesame saucy brussels sprouts.

-yeh!