Posted in appetizers, cheese, cookies, freezer friendly on May 5th, 2010
You guys know I’m a major dough-eater, right? Okay, well, if not, there you go – cookie dough, cake batter, brownie batter, any of that – major weakness. As embarrassing as this story is, I will tell you that I have actually reached into the oven to take one more spoonful of pound cake batter [...]
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 appetizers, dips, gluten free, vegetables on Oct 26th, 2009
Crusty bread, cheese, cured sausage, fruit. It’s a seriously underestimated meal. Yes, a meal. Not a particularly healthy one, I admit, but it does cover all of the nutritional bases, as long as you make an extra effort to eat a lot of the fruit. It doesn’t hurt to use 100% whole wheat bread either. [...]
Posted in appetizers, healthy, vegetables, vegetarian on Oct 5th, 2009
I’ve started my annual football season tradition of planning to eat snacks on Sundays instead of a full dinner, which will invariably last two weeks before I forget all about it and go back to planning a meal and then whining that “I don’t feel like cooking, I just wanna relax!” My life is so [...]
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. Invariably, his [...]
Posted in appetizers, dessert, freezer friendly on Jul 15th, 2009
Remember when I made these? I was like, they’re so easy! Just cut out some puff pastry rounds, top with fruit and sugar, and bake until beautiful and buttery and perfect! Um. “Easy” isn’t really my thing when it comes to baking. I am determined to overcomplicate things. So I made my own puff pastry [...]
Posted in appetizers, dessert, dips, fruit, gluten free, healthy on Feb 22nd, 2009
Dave and I, for better or worse, don’t have the types of jobs that we can just forget about when we leave work at the end of the day. As a result, we often have to work on weekends. One particularly stressful weekend, I decided that we should make weekend working an event, where we [...]
Posted in appetizers, dips, gluten free, healthy, vegetables, vegetarian on Jan 23rd, 2009
I don’t blame Tuesdays with Dorie for my pants being too tight to button by the end of 2008. I blame unemployment. Instead of grabbing my standard healthy snacks and eating them at work because they were the only food available, I would pass over the bananas and carrots at home and fill up on [...]
Posted in appetizers, asian, dips, gluten free, nuts, outdoor cooking, vegetables on Nov 12th, 2008
I keep my eye out for vegetables dips that aren’t ridiculously unhealthy. The thing is, when I serve some sort of meat that’s finger food, I don’t like to serve a vegetable that requires silverware. The perfect accompaniment is crudité (snobby way of saying vegetables eaten as a snack) with a dip, but most dips [...]
