Posted in bread, breakfast, freezer friendly, fruit, healthy, quick bread, whole grains on Sep 30th, 2009
Everything I eat is evaluated based on its ratio of nutrition to flavor. That sounds tedious but it isn’t. It’s really just answering one simple question that I think most of us ask before we dig in: Is it worth it?
For example, macaroni and cheese: very indulgent, but also very delicious. Definitely [...]
Posted in chocolate, dessert, nuts, tuesdays with dorie on Sep 29th, 2009
My favorite way to spend my oh-so-generous three-dollar allowance as a kid, was, surprise!, candy. Well, that and cheap stationary from Walgreens (which I still have, because, I don’t know why). Once a week, my friend Katie and I would walk to Walgreens and wander up and down the candy aisle, picking out [...]
Posted in side dish, vegetables on Sep 28th, 2009
I’m pretty sure I’m the worst yoga-er ever. I think it provides a pretty good workout, but, honestly, it kind of bores me. I know I’m supposed to get all meditative and stuff, but I don’t, and I end up bored, and I end up not doing yoga at all, and that’s no [...]
Posted in cake, dessert, fall, freezer friendly, recipe comparisons on Sep 25th, 2009
You know what’s totally unfair, considering that I’m in general more interested in food than Dave? He has a more sensitive palate than me. What the hell?
I made these cupcakes when he wasn’t around, and I had to do three separate “tastings” (eating all three in one sitting, unfrosted) over a couple of days [...]
Posted in appetizers, cheese, dips, gluten free, nuts, vegetables, vegetarian on Sep 24th, 2009
Dave is, it should come as no surprise to me by now, quite a good match for me. I used to wish that he was as excited about food as I was. I’d ask him for meal ideas, I’d demand feedback after trying a new recipe, and I wished he’d cook with me. [...]
Posted in cookies, dessert, freezer friendly, fruit, tuesdays with dorie on Sep 22nd, 2009
I often write blog entries in my head while I cook. While I was rolling out the dough and forming these pufflets, I was planning to tell you that I do not recommend this recipe. That it was my least favorite Dorie Greenspan recipe so far. That the dough was impossible to [...]
Posted in beans, breakfast, eggs, favorites, potatoes, vegetarian on Sep 21st, 2009
Do you have a food you love from your hometown that you can’t get anymore? For New Mexicans, that food will always be Hatch green chile. It’s ubiquitous in New Mexico, and you won’t just find it in enchiladas and chile rellenos and the like, but in more unexpected places, like eggs and [...]
Posted in cheese, gluten free, potatoes, side dish on Sep 17th, 2009
Bad habit: I cook new recipes at a much faster rate than I get around to writing about them here. By the time I’m ready to put them in the blog, I can’t remember what motivated me to make them in the first place. So instead of including some sort of personalized story that hopefully [...]
Posted in dessert, fall, freezer friendly, fruit, pie, tuesdays with dorie on Sep 15th, 2009
I have officially relinquished my annual Fight Against Fall. Usually I’m very stubborn about waiting until October before I want to think about apples, pumpkin, or candy corn. But, eh. It got cold early this year, and we’re going to be really busy in October, so I figured I’d better soak up [...]
Posted in cheese, gluten free, italian, rice, vegetables on Sep 14th, 2009
Although I think that adding green pepper is the easiest way to ruin otherwise perfectly good pizza, I’m not in general a picky eater. There are no common ingredients that I refuse to eat, I’m game to try just about anything, and I think even green pepper has its place. (Caveat: margarine and [...]
