Posted in seafood on Feb 27th, 2009
Something I regret about my trip to Scotland a few years ago is that I didn’t eat fish and chips while I was there. I don’t remember many of the meals that I ate there. What really sticks out is the desserts, in particular chocolate lumpy bumpy, a combination of mousse, cake, and [...]
Posted in chocolate, cookies, dessert, nuts, tuesdays with dorie on Feb 24th, 2009
I haven’t missed a Tuesday with Dorie since I joined the group last April. There were a few times, when I was traveling or something, where it was close, but for the most part, it’s been easy. I never really understood what the big deal was with people who only made half the [...]
Posted in appetizers, dessert, dips, fruit, gluten free, healthy on Feb 22nd, 2009
Dave and I, for better or worse, don’t have the types of jobs that we can just forget about when we leave work at the end of the day. As a result, we often have to work on weekends. One particularly stressful weekend, I decided that we should make weekend working an event, [...]
Posted in beans, freezer friendly, gluten free, healthy, outdoor cooking, vegetables, vegetarian on Feb 20th, 2009
When my sister plans meals for once-a-month freezer cooking, she usually tests a small batch of a recipe before making a larger batch to freeze. This is good practice, I recently learned. A few months ago, I made vegetarian chili to bring on a camping trip, and even though I was experimenting with [...]
Posted in cake, chocolate, dessert, tuesdays with dorie on Feb 17th, 2009
You know what the best thing about this cake was? No worries about getting crumbs in the frosting!
But really the best thing was the rich chocolate cake layered with fluffy vanilla frosting, which pretty much sums up my favorite dessert. I used to get it all the time in college at my favorite [...]
Posted in beef, gluten free, sandwiches, soup on Feb 15th, 2009
Dave and I don’t eat a lot of beef; in fact, this is only the fourth beef recipe on my site. To us, there are environmental factors to consider with eating beef, as well as humanitarian, health, and cost issues. Plus we just plain like vegetarian food. So when we had pot [...]
Posted in cake, chocolate, dessert, recipe comparisons on Feb 12th, 2009
I started thinking about a Valentine’s Day blog post as soon as I pulled these heart-shaped silicone baking cups out of my Christmas stocking. And if you’re making heart-shaped cupcakes, they should be bright red. And if you’re making heart-shaped bright red cupcakes, they should be covered in heart-shaped pink and red sprinkles. [...]
Posted in custard, dessert, gluten free, tuesdays with dorie on Feb 10th, 2009
When you make a commitment to bake a recipe every single week, some of those weeks are by necessity going to be half-assed. It’s not that I’m any less interested in floating islands than any other dessert – it sounds tasty, and it’s definitely not something I have experience with – it just happens [...]
Posted in asian, cheese, gluten free, rice, seafood, vegetables on Feb 8th, 2009
A third grader was telling me once about her favorite restaurant, and she said that it served “eggs and bagels and bacon and everything good.” That’s kind of how this sushi roll is – full of fish and cream cheese and avocado and everything good. And then it’s fried.
The first time Dave and [...]
Posted in chocolate, cookies, dessert, tuesdays with dorie on Feb 3rd, 2009
This week, I’m one of those reviewers – the ones who tweak the recipe beyond recognition, then say the recipe sucks and no one should bother making it.
Except for the ‘beyond recognition’ and ‘the recipe sucks’ parts, at least. For whatever reason, I took it upon myself to, um, improve upon this recipe. [...]
