Monthly Archive: May 2012

Freshly Squeezed Lemonade

ingredients 1 1/2 C fresh lemon juice (about 7 lemons) 1 1/2 C sugar 8 C water mint leaves (optional) directions Start off by making simple syrup, boil one cup of water with the...

Math and Baking: Austin Ford

Austin Ford’s PhD is as fresh as a just plucked plum.  On Friday, May 18, 2012, he successfully defended his mathematics thesis on…wait for it…”The Structural and Dispersive Properties of Classical and Quantum Waves...

Crumbed Morels

ingredients 2 morels 1 egg, beaten 10 Ritz crackers, crumbed 1 shallot, finely diced 2 T unsalted butter directions Shake the morels gently to loosen any debris.  Cut the stem off and slice into...

Morels with Soft Scrambled Eggs

ingredients 2 morels 2 eggs, beaten 1 shallot, finely diced 1 T butter directions Preheat oven to 350° F.  Gently shake the morels to remove any “forest debris” (yep, that’s exactly what the chef...

Recursive Celery

My idea of a fantastic evening is one spent puttering around the kitchen with a glass of wine, and Norah Jones on the radio.  It was during one of these putterings that my friend...