Posted in beef, good as leftovers, one pot meal, spring on Apr 28th, 2010
Can someone explain to me why the only way I can buy brisket in my tiny town is to get the whole brisket? (And why are there no dried currants? Or mini-cupcake liners?) I didn’t even know what a whole brisket looked like before last month. First off, it’s huge. Who needs to buy 15 [...]
Posted in chocolate, cookies, dessert, fruit, nuts, tuesdays with dorie on Apr 26th, 2010
Hey, didn’t Tuesdays with Dorie already make these, a chocolate version, a long time ago? And didn’t I already lodge a complaint against cookies that are more add-in than dough? Seriously, sometimes the chocolate chips in chocolate chip cookies get in my way. And wait, didn’t I already decide that, hey, add-ins maybe aren’t such [...]
Posted in sandwiches, seafood on Apr 25th, 2010
In retrospect, this probably wasn’t the best weeknight meal ever. The thing is, I eat very differently on weekdays and weekends. On weekdays, it’s all about the vegetables and the fruit and the light bean dips and all this healthy stuff, and that’s all very well and good, but by the weekend, I do not [...]
Posted in good as leftovers, salad, side dish, summer, vegetables on Apr 21st, 2010
“Here, taste this”, I requested, bringing Dave a cornichon. He obliged, then made a face. “Euck, it’s a pickle.” I sighed. Brined food is Dave’s single food hangup, but the cornichons had seemed relatively mild to me. I was hoping he wouldn’t mind them. I went back into the kitchen to finish the salad, snacking [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, freezer friendly, quick bread, tuesdays with dorie on Apr 20th, 2010
I was all set to make the tiniest portion of this recipe and serve little bitty biscuits with salad for dinner. And then Dorie mentioned ham sandwiches in the headnote and I started thinking about adding eggs and cheese to that and suddenly I was making extra dough to freeze. Breakfast sandwiches are on my [...]
Posted in bread, cheese, fruit, italian, pizza, pork, vegetables, yeast bread on Apr 18th, 2010
I went to dinner at a fancy pizza place with my parents and Dave a few months ago, and my dad ordered a pizza that seemed appropriate for him – cheeseburger. Because the more meat, the better! Hold the vegetables please, is generally his motto. Oh, I laughed and laughed when his pizza arrived covered [...]
Do you know where the name for my blog came from? I mean, besides Dave kind of just blurting it out and me realizing it was perfect. I was looking for something that at least somewhat related to my science background – I kind of wanted to be discussing not just the outcome of recipes, [...]
Posted in cheese, gluten free, pie, potatoes, side dish, vegetables, vegetarian on Apr 14th, 2010
I have a hard time figuring out where I fit on the healthy eating spectrum. Some things are obvious. I eat a lot of fresh fruits, vegetables, and lean proteins: good. I also eat dessert often, although not necessarily a lot of it: still, bad. But everything in between, I’m not so sure. For example, [...]
Posted in cake, citrus, dessert, nuts, tuesdays with dorie on Apr 13th, 2010
This cake fit so seamlessly into my weekend that I hardly know what to say about it. I mixed it up and baked it early Friday evening, and I grabbed a bite here and another there throughout the weekend until there was nothing left. With the ingredients stirred by hand, and the light lemony almond [...]
Posted in chicken, grilling, mexican, vegetables on Apr 11th, 2010
I guess they don’t call it “manning” the grill for nothing. Why is it that so many men who have no interest in cooking inside are willing to stand outside and grill? I really thought I’d be the one doing the grilling around here, just like I do the ovening and the stoving, but so [...]
