Posted in appetizers, asian, healthy, pork on Jan 31st, 2008
I am not good at timing my cooking. I had grand plans for these potstickers to be part of an all day sporadic eating event during the NFL championship games. We’d eat potstickers in the first game, hot and sour soup at the beginning of the second game, and dessert sometime later. But my timing [...]
Flan, crème caramel, whatever. Turns out, there’s only the teeniest of differences. I was struggling to think of a dessert that fit a precise set of requirements – compatibility with the red wine we’d be drinking that night, not chocolate, and most importantly, not requiring any trips to the store. I really thought I’d hit [...]
Posted in citrus, custard, daring bakers, dessert, fruit, pie, winter/holidays on Jan 28th, 2008
I saw so excited to see that this month’s Daring Baker challenge was lemon meringue pie! Not only do I love lemon, but the one lemon meringue pie I’ve made was several years ago and was only partially successful. It seemed to me like this had to potential to be a fairly difficult challenge – [...]
As much as I love a good, fluffy pancake, sometimes it’s good to mix it up, you know? Especially when there’s somehow all these extra apples laying around. (Who didn’t eat their daily apple this week? I’m blaming Dave.) And I think most of us know where to look when we want to “mix it [...]
Posted in citrus, favorites, healthy, one pot meal, seafood, vegetables, weeknight meal on Jan 24th, 2008
For Dave’s birthday, my parents took us out to eat at a brewery. Everyone loved the beer they ordered (except for my 8-month pregnant sister, who had to settle for soda), but I think I was the only one who enjoyed their food. Oh, and I did enjoy my food. Rarely do I finish my [...]
Posted in appetizers, eggs, gluten free, seafood on Jan 22nd, 2008
I know, I know, deviled eggs? Does anyone really need a recipe for deviled eggs, or a blog entry about them? But, these have an extra ingredient that I assure you, makes a blog entry just for them worthwhile. (Plus, look how cute they are in pictures! They look like little boats from the side!) [...]
Posted in bread, french, pizza, seafood, vegetarian, yeast bread on Jan 21st, 2008
Like many people I know, I worked at a pizza joint as a teenager. One night, as another employee handed a pizza to a customer, I caught a whiff of an awful odor – like rotting fish, ruining a perfectly good pizza. This was my first firsthand experience with anchovies. Yuck. It took Cooks Illustrated [...]
Posted in asian, bread, favorites, good as leftovers, healthy, pork, quick bread, vegetables on Jan 18th, 2008
I haven’t been reading food blogs long – only about a week longer than I’ve had my own, in fact – but I’m already playing favorites. One of the blogs that first caught my attention and held it is Jen’s use real butter. Jen’s blog has what I consider the three requisite aspects of a [...]
Posted in cake, dessert, fall, nuts, winter/holidays on Jan 16th, 2008
For someone who’s been very interested in food and cooking for a large part of her life, I was late catching onto Martha Stewart fanhood. I just didn’t know much about her, for whatever reason. I didn’t watch her show, I didn’t read her magazine, and I hadn’t made any of her recipes. But then [...]
Posted in bread, favorites, yeast bread on Jan 14th, 2008
Recently, I’ve noticed a lot of people trying out homemade bread for the first time. I remember my first time making yeast bread. I was nervous about everything – the amount of flour I was kneading into the dough, the rising time, the baking temperature. There’s so much uncertainty involved with bread baking, and I’m [...]
