Posted in appetizers, cheese, fruit, gluten free, nuts, pork on Feb 27th, 2010
Stuffed dates are part of one my favorite days recently – one of those that, for whatever reason, just ended up being particularly awesome. Some great friends visited us in Philadelphia shortly before we moved. After walking around the famous historical sites and before seeing one of my favorite musicians play; before walking up the [...]
Posted in appetizers, beans, gluten free, healthy, italian, vegetables on Feb 24th, 2010
No matter how hard I try, I can’t get excited about the Thanksgiving feast. Turkey, stuffing, cranberries – I don’t know, they’re all just fine, but Thanksgiving isn’t the eat-until-you-pop day for me that it is for a lot of people. I do love the idea of a free for all food day though. I [...]
Posted in citrus, cookies, dessert, tuesdays with dorie, whole grains on Feb 23rd, 2010
The problem with wheat germ cookies is that my mind focuses on the wheat germ part instead of the cookie part. So then these are healthy and therefore perfectly acceptable to eat with my tea – before breakfast. Wheat germ, people! Whole grains! Cookie schmookie. Plus – they’re so good! No joke. I had my [...]
Posted in cheese, italian, pasta, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal on Feb 21st, 2010
I’m all about taking water out of ingredients. Zucchini, eggplant, cabbage, tomatoes, tofu, even bread for French toast. Water doesn’t contribute flavor, so if it isn’t improving texture, I have no use for it. In this recipe, ricotta is drained in cheesecloth for several hours, then baked. What I thought would happen is the cheese [...]
Posted in chocolate, cookies, dessert, tuesdays with dorie on Feb 16th, 2010
Before I joined Tuesdays with Dorie, I baked chocolate chip cookies a couple times a month. They were my standard weeknight dessert; I’d eat dinner early and then by the time I was ready to drink my evening tea, I was hungry for a dessert, and a cookie or two was just the right portion. [...]
Posted in favorites, freezer friendly, gluten free, healthy, mexican, potatoes, seafood, vegetables, weeknight meal on Feb 11th, 2010
I need every weekday meal to be exactly like this one. First, it took only 20 minutes of actual effort. Sliced potatoes are softened in the microwave right in the baking dish. Meanwhile, I pureed a few other ingredients, mostly straight from cans, with my immersion blender. Then I laid some fish filets over the [...]
Posted in chocolate, cookies, dessert, tuesdays with dorie on Feb 9th, 2010
You can laugh, based on years on my often-but-not-always-positive critiques of Dorie’s recipes, but I actually think I’m pretty open-minded about desserts. For example, I definitely already have a favorite brownie recipe. It’s evenly balanced between cakey and fudgy, which is exactly how I like my brownies. When one report after another started rolling in [...]
Posted in cheese, mushrooms, sandwiches, vegetables, vegetarian on Feb 5th, 2010
I wouldn’t say that I get tired of pizza, but with nothing to break our Friday night pizza routine lately, I thought a break might be in order. I considered some of my other favorite take-out options that I could make at home and decided, mm, big cheesy toasted sandwiches. As much as I love [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, quick bread, whole grains on Feb 2nd, 2010
Dave gets a man magazine – not one with naked ladies, but one about fashion and supposedly culture and, I don’t know, other manly stuff. I know he’ll insist that I clarify that he doesn’t pay for it. Anyway, the last issue had an article about getting in shape in which the author claims that [...]
Posted in cake, chocolate, dessert, tuesdays with dorie on Feb 1st, 2010
It’s a lobster!!! Get your mind out of the gutter. I’ve come full circle on milk chocolate. As a kid, like most of us I think, I didn’t like dark chocolate at all. Ew, too bitter! Recently, I’ve felt the opposite. Milk chocolate was too sweet – where’s the chocolate flavor? But now milk chocolate [...]
