Thanksgiving Feast 2012

Thanksgiving was a great success at the not so big blue house.  We had food coming out our ears and spent it with great friends who are also Seattle "transplants" like us.

Oven roasted turkey.  Jeff wasn't pleased that it wasn't a nice shade of brown, but I think it tasted great.

More pictures after the break!

Thai Iced Tea

Sorry for yet another repost, folks.  Things are getting busy in the not so big blue house and I don't anticipate them getting any better before the holidays are over.  So without further adieu, here is a slightly edited repost of Thai iced tea that Jeff put together in February 2009.

One of my favorite drinks to get at a Thai restaurant is the Thai iced tea. It's the perfect drink for a hot summer day and it complements the food nicely. The one bad thing is the only place you can get a good glass of it is at a Thai restaurant or maybe at a Bubble Tea stand. For quite some time now I've been searching for a method of brewing and assembling the drink at home. I'm glad to say my search has been successful.

Chef for Windows 8

Chef is an app for Windows 8 by Downtown Bellevue(disclaimer:  Jeff is a part of this group) which became available in the Windows 8 Store yesterday.  I'm so excited that they had their app published that I decided to share here.  So, what is Chef?  It's a recipe organizing, menu planning, shopping list creation app.  Want more details?  I'll explain more after the break.

Buttermilk Rolls

With Halloween behind us, I'm setting my sights on Thanksgiving.  One of our guests' favorite things on our Thanksgiving table is Jeff's buttermilk rolls.  This is a slightly edited repost of his recipe from our old blog.  Enjoy.

White bread is a great place to start for the starting baker, it's straight forward and with careful steps pretty hard to mess up. These buttermilk rolls are soft, fluffly and have one hell of a buttermilk taste. They complement a meal perfectly and will fill your home with a wonderful smell.


The following recipe is from Peter Reinhart's Bread Bakers Apprentice (White Bread variation 2). The book is great and I would highly recommend to anyone interested in the science behind bread baking. This is my go to recipe for bread, dinner rolls, hot dog buns and hamburger buns. The same dough can be shaped into each of these and the results are delicious. This post will show you how to make the roll variation.