Posted in asian, favorites, healthy, one pot meal, tofu, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal on May 31st, 2009
A friend of mine once, oh-so-innocently, asked me if I had any recipes with napa cabbage. Poor guy. You have to be careful talking to me about food, because I can go on forever. I sent him longwinded comments about a bunch of recipes. I also sent a recipe for tofu [...]
Posted in chocolate, cookies, dessert, tuesdays with dorie on May 26th, 2009
(chilled and therefore solid here)
One of my favorite things about the weekend is coffee. On weekdays, I limit myself to a big mug of black tea each day, maybe two mugs on Friday. But I have to be careful with caffeine, because even one mug of black tea makes me a little excited. [...]
Posted in cheese, gluten free, potatoes, side dish on May 25th, 2009
You know the expression, “your eyes were bigger than your stomach?” Yeah, that never happens to me. I have quite the stomach. What I do instead of over-anticipating my appetite is over-anticipate my desire to cook. When it came time to actually make the meal that included these potatoes, I was [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, daring bakers, french, recipe comparisons, yeast bread on May 24th, 2009
Someone must have told me “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” at a particularly impressionable age. Either that, or I’ve struggled through learning enough new subjects that I recognize the value of practice. Or maybe I’m just obsessive.
This was my first time making croissants, and it wasn’t perfect, which immediately [...]
Posted in citrus, dessert, freezer friendly, fruit, gluten free, healthy, spring on May 21st, 2009
I think I’ve developed a warped sense of nutrition. For the most part, I maximize fruits and vegetables, minimize carbs, focus on lean, usually vegetarian proteins, and avoid alcohol. But this all gets thrown out the window on the weekends, when all I do is try not to overeat and hopefully get some [...]
Posted in gluten free, healthy, soup, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal on May 20th, 2009
I recently had a friend visit, and somehow, her week-long trip turned into a wine and cheese fest. The wine part of the trip started immediately. We didn’t start hitting the cheese until the third day, but once we’d started, it quickly escalated. On her last night, for a grand finale, we [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, freezer friendly, fruit, quick bread, tuesdays with dorie on May 19th, 2009
I recently told someone that neither Dave or I like mangoes. Exactly one week later, Dave brought home four mangoes from work. Um…dude, we don’t like mangoes, remember?
But it turns out that I do like mangoes! I just don’t like the unripe ones I was buying from the grocery store. These [...]
Posted in citrus, custard, dessert, fruit, pie, tuesdays with dorie on May 14th, 2009
You know how a lot of citrus recipes warn you to be careful not to get any of the white pith when you zest the fruit, because it’s bitter? Well, guess what?
Bitter is good.
This was my first whole lemon dessert, where everything but the seeds is included. It was simple. Blend sugar [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, freezer friendly, fruit, quick bread, spring on May 10th, 2009
What’s fun about going through phases with certain foods, like my recent scone phase, is that it gives you a chance to really explore that category. I’ve made all sorts of scones in the past few months – cream scones, scones made with lighter dairy but more butter, scones filled with fresh fruit and [...]
Posted in cake, chocolate, dessert, italian, tuesdays with dorie on May 5th, 2009
I would be curious to see a statistical analysis of the Tuesdays with Dorie recipes chosen so far. I figure we’ve made our way through about a third of the book, maybe a little less. But we’ve made 12 out of 18 of the celebration cakes (and that’s not including the Perfect Party [...]
