Posted in gluten free, healthy, salad, side dish, summer, vegetables on Aug 29th, 2009
Salads can be tricky, because if I’m eating a big bowl of vegetables, it better be healthy, you know? But there’s the whole salad dressing issue. Vinaigrette is the standard lighter option, but even it’s usually based on olive oil. Coleslaw is no exception to the salad dressing problem. Many coleslaws are simply cabbage, mayonnaise [...]
Posted in bread, freezer friendly, pizza, quick bread on Aug 27th, 2009
I’m not exactly Ms. Spontaneous. I like a Plan. I like following the Plan. I do not like when the Plan is disrupted. Dave was supposed to stop at the farm stand after work one day to pick up some corn on the cob for black bean and corn quesadillas, but the farm stand was [...]
Posted in citrus, custard, dessert, fruit, pie, tuesdays with dorie on Aug 25th, 2009
Oh, how times change. I had kind of thought that last year’s lemon cream tart would be my first and last citrus cream experience. Seriously, that is a lot of butter. But apparently, my attitude toward rich foods has slowly evolved from ‘this is way too fattening for me to indulge in more than a [...]
Posted in alcohol, cake, cheese, custard, dessert, freezer friendly, fruit, summer on Aug 23rd, 2009
My brother became known as the family cheesecake maker early on. I think we were still teenagers when he started getting cheesecake cookbooks. In one of those, there was a recipe for amaretto peach cheesecake that became a family favorite. I’m guessing it’s a Kraft recipe that’s widely available on the internet, but, frankly, I [...]
Posted in cheese, favorites, one pot meal, pasta, summer, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal on Aug 21st, 2009
I know I’ve been harping on my love of summer lately, and I did the same thing last year. Honestly, while summer is undoubtedly my favorite season, fall is a not-too-distant second, and really, there are aspects I like about every season. But summer doesn’t just have sunlight and warmth and lightning bugs and beach [...]
Posted in cake, cookies, dessert, fall, fruit, nuts, tuesdays with dorie on Aug 18th, 2009
My sister’s kids are very early risers. There are times when they get up so early that their parents have to creep into their room and tell them “It’s still night! Go back to sleep!” I feel that way in August with food bloggers: It’s still summer! Put away the pumpkin! In revolt against making [...]
Posted in cheese, gluten free, one pot meal, pie, potatoes, summer, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal on Aug 16th, 2009
Dave and I have this conversation nearly once a week: Me (whining, after baking all day): I’ve been cooking all day and I’m tired and I haven’t even stupid started dinner. Stupid stupid stupid. Dave: Okay. We’ll order pizza. Me: We can’t order pizza! I bought ingredients for dinner! If we don’t use them tonight, [...]
Posted in gluten free, healthy, indian, rice, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal on Aug 13th, 2009
I’m particular about cookbooks. I’ve gotten into the habit of buying one hopefully comprehensive cookbook per cuisine. It started with Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking and Marcella Hazen’s Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking, then it was Corinne Trang’s Essentials of Asian Cooking, and most recently, Julie Sahni’s Classic Indian Cooking. The thing [...]
Posted in chocolate, cookies, dessert, tuesdays with dorie on Aug 11th, 2009
It took me a long time to understand edge people. In fact, my family is so squarely middle piece people that I didn’t even know brownie edge lovers existed until college. When my roommate and I would go out for dessert, I’d order a big piece of chocolate torte (with a side of mini cream [...]
“I’m gonna go torch my birthday cake. Do you want to watch?” It was late and I was crabby, so I thought I would get more of a reaction. But apparently I’d already shown Dave a picture of the cake I was planning to make for my birthday, so he knew exactly what I was [...]
