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November 12, 2007
Ethan's secret recipes
Last night we had Sunday dinner at J.D.'s house. Mandy's aunt Tamar was in town and made a yummy potato-leek soup (which Ethan ate). And we brought cookies, Jeff's "secret recipe," which is a variation of the standard Nestle one.
After eating a cookie, Ethan, who had been quiet all night (probably because he'd been busy devouring his latest library books in one fell swoop) suddenly announced that he was going to make two of his own "secret recipes." One dessert, and one not dessert.
When we got home he got straight to work on the not dessert one, which turned out to be soup. At first he wanted it to have all the vegetables in the world, then just all the vegetables in Portland. After some discussion he decided to do autumn vegetables that could be found in Portland. So he wrote the whole thing out, carefully deciding how much of everything, such as 1/2 cup of onions, and 1 sunchoke.
Next, the dessert. I can't tell you all the details, since it is, after all, secret, but I can reveal that it has 10 cups of sugar in it. And a pound of chocolate. Then he decided he wanted to make a kind of Rice Krispie treats, only ones that he actually likes, instead of the usual kind. To that end, he added Rice Krispies to his ingredient list. And told us that he was going to count them individually in determining the quantity. Jeff and I just cracked up at that. So, his recipe has 10 cups of sugar... and 50 Rice Krispies.
Posted by ktingey at November 12, 2007 04:20 PM