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Short Stack Editions Giveaway! — Family Meal // Tacos with Roasted Corn and Crispy Prosciutto

July 8, 2015 by effingdelicious 6 Comments

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Wanna win TWO Short Stack Editions of your very own? Share your #FamilyMeal on Instagram and tag us– @EffingDelicious! Winners will be chosen at random on Wednesday, July 15, 2015, and notified via social media; yadda yadda yadda, you know the drill <3

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In the food world, “family meal” is a time when an entire restaurant gets together and shares a bite to eat. From dishwashers to head chef, everyone gets an equal share (if their ass gets there time). It’s nothing fancy. Usually leftovers and odd bits from kidnapped from the walk-in– but it’s a nourishing ritual that gets the whole gang a minute off their feet to feel like a team. No one’s too good to dig in, and it starts service off on well-fed note.

Family meal is something we’ve instituted on blog cook days, too. It keeps our heads level and blood sugar stable while we crank through a month’s work of prep and photography; it helps us reduce food waste and feed our hungry studio guests; it gives Lucy a chance to show off while I knock out a load of dishes (oooooor check and re-check instagram); it gives us a chance to sit down, tell dumb jokes, gossip, and listen to Biscuits on repeat.

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Chicken Pot Pie

April 12, 2015 by effingdelicious Leave a Comment

Chicken Pot Pie

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This lousy Smarch weather has got us down. Despite being basically April, there’s like 8 inches of fresh fucking powder on the ground in Chicago. We’re cold, we’re over it, and we need to snuggle up to something hearty.

Chicken Pot Pie is the coziest of all foods. Somewhere between pastry and stew, it’s the culinary equivalent of napping in a sunbeam. Except it’s, like, a sunbeam made by a chorus of heavenly grandmothers. And it’s easier than it sounds. A little poached chicken here, a pie crust there, and you’re out of the kitchen with less than 30 minutes of hands-on time.

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Spicy Cheddar Cornbread Biscuits

September 28, 2014 by effingdelicious Leave a Comment

Spicy Cheddar Cornbread Biscuits

Spicy Cheddar Cornbread Biscuits

No adult human should have to suffer the injustice of choosing between cornbread and biscuits. Especially not when these little carb-nuggets have got your back.

Packed with cheese and spiked with jalapenos, they can work with a hearty bowl of chili as well as they do scrambled eggs and bacon. They’re the culinary equivalent of a black push-up bra. They make whatever you put on top look good but, frankly, you don’t need to add a damn thing to bring the room to their knees.

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Buttermilk Donuts with Orange and Cinnamon

April 7, 2013 by effingdelicious Leave a Comment

Buttermilk Donuts with Orange and Cinnamon

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We don’t need to tell you why donuts are delicious, you already fucking know.

You were born knowing why donuts are delicious. The empirical fact that donuts are the most perfect food in the world is hard-wired into your DNA. Even terrible donuts— the hockey pucks full of synthetic tasting goop and weird greasy crullers— are pretty OK, but no donut is better than the sweet, carb-y comfort of one that’s homemade….

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Jesus’ Birthday Cake

December 23, 2012 by effingdelicious Leave a Comment

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I (Rachel) grew up fairly religious. It was more because it was the thing you did in a small town with lots of corn rather than actual devotion, but the holidays were always particularly reverent. While there definitely was Santa Claus and presents and good, good secular shit, we totally kept the Christ in Christmas.

Despite the religion, it wasn’t the most stable environment. We tried, our parents tried, but it always stayed a mess. Christmas time, though, was always a time when we were on our best behavior. Even when things were patently not good, we would rally and put the trouble behind us. I think that we saw the Holy Family and realized that if Joseph could buy a line about Mary getting knocked up— knocked up by GOD— before he even got a piece, and that he could love her and that child AND be a real father to Him; the least we could do was be sweet for a few weeks of the year.

The big JC and relatives influenced most of our big family traditions, but the best tradition, by far, was spending Christmas Eve with my mom making Him a birthday cake. It was usually just a microwave cake— the kind that came in a plastic tray and had pleasantly chemical chocolate fudge frosting— or a box mix, but every few years we would go really wild and make it from scratch. Those were the best years.

Even when it was just a box cake, we always turned it into a bit of a production. Or it felt that way to me. I bugged my mom for weeks to go get ingredients and we agonized, in a good way, over what flavor to get. My brother and I would take turns actually insisting that Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, preferred Butterscotch or Chocolate Fudge, respectively. Which conveniently happened to be our favorite flavor.

About a half an hour before bed, after the sprinkles and white plastic tubes of writing icing and church, my dad would turn out the lights, and we knew it was time to gather around the cake with a box of unlit candles. My brother and I took turns, putting one candle in the cake for each person we could remember that was present at the Nativity, lighting them one by one. I typically made sure all of the animals were present and accounted for while Zach tried slipping in extra Wisemen whose names sounded strikingly similar to Ninja Turtles. Whoever named the most got to blow out the candles and then we’d sing Happy Birthday to Jesus, actually out loud, without a hint of irony, and totally off key.

Whatever remained after we each ate our fill became property of Santa, and was served with a glass bottle of Coca-Cola, and some chex mix for the reindeer in a big, lemon yellow, plastic bowl.

Part of becoming an adult means choosing what you want to take from your childhood and putting it into your real life. Choosing what and who your family is, and how to best navigate those relationships. You aren’t stuck completely with the past, but you also aren’t left to face the future without a template.

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While my faith is radically different than when I was a kid, and the four of us don’t get together for the holidays, making Jesus a birthday cake and lighting the candles on Christmas Eve is something I’ve held on to. Maybe it’s because I fucking love cake, or because, regardless of any divine status, a dude who asked people to be excellent to each other, to break from their classist, capitalist bullshit, and to stop using God as an excuse to be dicks totally deserves a dope birthday. It is definitely something that makes my holidays feel complete and I’m glad it’s stuck around.

This year, Jesus is getting a cake that’s the birthday tradition from another one of my favorite families. Earlier this year, Lucy and I got to celebrate our sweet friend Ashley’s commitment to her partner Karen and their family. Lucy did an incredible job photographing the day, and I had the honor of baking. Part of that honor included making Mary Phillips’ Chocolate Banana Sour Cream Cake, a treasured family recipe from Ashley’s beloved grandmother.

Moist is probably the worst word on the planet, but it aptly describes this cake. It is so moist. It’s yielding. It’s tender. It has an inexplicably delicate crumb that turns the modest cocoa powder into an explosion of dark chocolate goodness and is just hardly scented with bananas and looks like cakes do on TV every single stinking time.

It is, without question, the most delicious cake that has ever existed.

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Mary Phillips’ Chocolate Banana Sour Cream Cake — For Jesus.
 
Slightly adapted, but completely courtesy of Mary Phillips and her beautiful grandchild Ashley Horan
Ingredients
  • 2 c. Sugar
  • 1 c. Shortening
  • 2 ½ c. Cake Flour— Lilly White is going to give you a better cake, if it’s available in your area.
  • 2 tsp. Baking Soda
  • ¼ tsp. Salt
  • ½ c. Natural Process Cocoa Powder
  • 2 c. (or 4 medium) Bananas, mashed
  • 2 eggs
  • ½ cup Buttermilk
  • 1 c. Boiling Water
Instructions
  1. Makes one 13x9” sheet cake, or 24 cupcakes.
  2. Preheat your oven to 350°. Grease a cake pan, line with parchment, grease again, and dust lightly with cocoa powder, or drop cupcake liners into your tins.
  3. In your stand mixer, cream together the Shortening and Sugar.
  4. Put some Water on to boil.
  5. Sift together Cake Flour, Baking Soda, Salt, and Cocoa Powder, and set aside in a separate bowl.
  6. In yet another bowl, smush or blend the Bananas, Eggs, and Buttermilk.
  7. Add ⅓ of the Flour mixture to the Shortening and Sugar. Mix until hardly combined. Add ½ of the Banana mixture, mix until combined, and then add ½ of the Boiling water, and stir until things kind of look like batter.
  8. Add ½ of the remaining Flour mixture, followed by the last of the Banana mixture and Boiling water, just like you did before.
  9. Finish it all off with the last of the Flour mixture, and stir by hand with a rubber spatula, being sure to scrape the sides down well.
  10. Evenly distribute in the prepared pan. Bake until just set in the center, a few moist crumbs should cling to a toothpick but it shouldn’t look like pudding; 45 minutes for a 13x9”, 20 minutes for cupcakes.
  11. Cool completely and top with Chocolate Frosting and sprinkles, or just a dusting of powdered sugar.
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Mashed Potatoes

November 18, 2012 by effingdelicious Leave a Comment

Mashed Potatoes

Mashed potatoes are the platonic ideal of comfort food. They’re nostalgic and carby and fluffy but creamy and go with pretty much everything. You can dress them up on top of a rustic shepherds pie or stir in endless cheeses, pork products, or even some kale– but we think these spuds are best with nothing more than a fork.

Perfect mashed potatoes aren’t difficult to make, but there is one thing that can get in the way of your carb-coma fantasy….

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