Posted in beans, healthy, pasta, spring, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal on Jun 30th, 2010
I had my doubts about this salad the whole time I was shopping for it, making it, testing it for seasoning, and serving it. But now, weeks later, my doubts are gone and I want some more. Except with better peas. Most of the doubts came from an unsuccessful shopping trip for ingredients. Sometimes I [...]
Posted in alcohol, cake, dessert, tuesdays with dorie on Jun 29th, 2010
Someone brought a rum bundt cake into work last week, and oh my god, was it good. Tender, extremely moist, and intensely rummy, I could hardly resist grabbing one wedge after another. My officemate, who apparently has far better self-control than I, cut herself a piece and set it aside until the end of the [...]
The best part about having a full-time job is having people to offload desserts to. No, I’m kidding, the best part is the money. No! It’s the feeling of self-worth I get from changing out of my pajamas before noon. Or it’s the belief that I’m making a difference in the world. The knowledge that [...]
Posted in cheese, citrus, healthy, one pot meal, pasta, spring, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal on Jun 24th, 2010
I feel like I used to have this room (my life), and it had some stuff in it; mostly stuff I liked (cooking, reading, teaching, gardening), although of course there were things I didn’t (cleaning). My main problem was that it was too empty. There was too much space, and I could never get it [...]
Posted in cake, chocolate, dessert, fruit, tuesdays with dorie on Jun 22nd, 2010
Most of us probably had the same first experience with plain yogurt. You think it’s going to be yogurt, but not quite so vanilla-ey! And then, ew, wtf, this tastes like sour cream. Force down a few bites; toss in trash. That was the end of my plain yogurt experience for several years. And then [...]
Posted in beans, gluten free, good as leftovers, rice, side dish, vegetables on Jun 20th, 2010
Side dishes aren’t my strong suit. I often find myself googling dorky things like “what to serve with Jamaican jerk chicken?” Rice and peas kept coming up, and I kept bypassing it. Who wants green peas mixed with plain white rice? It turns out, of course, that rice and peas is nothing of the sort. [...]
Sometimes (most times) I get cranky after going to the grocery store here. It isn’t a bad little store, but it just doesn’t have the selection I had in Philadelphia. I’m spoiled. I miss good seafood and more cheese options than I know what to do with and organic produce and looseleaf tea. One thing [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, chocolate, fruit, tuesdays with dorie, whole grains, yeast bread on Jun 15th, 2010
Dave has recently encountered an enviable problem. After starting to exercise a few months ago for the first time in years, he started losing weight too fast. Losing weight. Too fast. So now we’re trying to come up with ways to get him more healthy calories that don’t create much more work. Hard-boiled eggs, peanut [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, freezer friendly, french, recipe comparisons, yeast bread on Jun 13th, 2010
I worked in a lab for years, but I never absolutely loved it. You’d think I would have, considering that I basically mixed up ingredients and baked them, but I guess without that crucial eating-the-batter – sorry, of course I mean that eating-the-result step, it just wasn’t as fun. Plus I could never get the [...]
Posted in dessert, fruit, quick bread, spring, tuesdays with dorie on Jun 7th, 2010
Dave and I ate dessert first this weekend, but not in the fun-loving, live life to its fullest, carefree kind of way. More in the ‘it’s too hot outside to grill dinner until the sun goes down’ kind of way. 110 degrees, people. I told you I live in the desert. But whatever, I got [...]
