Posted in asian, healthy, one pot meal, pasta, soup, whole grains on Jan 2nd, 2010
I don’t get sick very often, which I chalk up mostly to luck (or I guess good genes). It probably also helps that I try to eat bunches of fruits and vegetables, drink a lot of water, get plenty of sleep, and exercise regularly.
Of course, over the holidays, I tend to grab a cookie [...]
Posted in asian, chicken, favorites, gluten free, mushrooms, soup on Dec 6th, 2009
Cooking and eating, I think I manage to do ambitiously. I just really like food, and I want to enjoy it as much as absolutely possible. That means I need to eat whatever is offered to me with an open mind. My desire to try new foods is driven by curiosity, but [...]
Posted in asian, custard, dessert, gluten free on Nov 28th, 2009
Dave’s attitude toward restaurants has changed dramatically over the past few months, and I love it. He used to think of eating out as simply a way to get food with minimal effort; the faster he could get in and out, the better. I remember impatiently waiting for our orders to be taken, [...]
Posted in asian, favorites, healthy, one pot meal, tofu, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal on May 31st, 2009
A friend of mine once, oh-so-innocently, asked me if I had any recipes with napa cabbage. Poor guy. You have to be careful talking to me about food, because I can go on forever. I sent him longwinded comments about a bunch of recipes. I also sent a recipe for tofu [...]
Posted in asian, cheese, gluten free, rice, seafood, vegetables on Feb 8th, 2009
A third grader was telling me once about her favorite restaurant, and she said that it served “eggs and bagels and bacon and everything good.” That’s kind of how this sushi roll is – full of fish and cream cheese and avocado and everything good. And then it’s fried.
The first time Dave and [...]
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 [...]
Posted in asian, favorites, gluten free, healthy, one pot meal, rice, seafood, vegetables on Oct 24th, 2008
I’m so proud of this recipe. I actually came up with the idea on my own. Whoa. Not that sushi ingredients mixed up in a bowl is a groundbreaking idea, but that isn’t the point. The point is that I didn’t know there was already a recipe out there when I [...]
Posted in appetizers, asian, dips, healthy, one pot meal, seafood, vegetables on Jul 25th, 2008
I am not a collector of cookbooks. I do have one full shelf of about twenty or so, but I’m not one to idly buy any book I get excited about. Unless I’m interested in a very good proportion of the recipes in the book, I won’t buy it.
Unless it’s only three dollars, [...]
Posted in asian, healthy, one pot meal, rice, seafood, vegetables on Jun 26th, 2008
I almost always ask Dave if he wants any input on our meals for the upcoming week, looking either for new ideas or for a way to limit all the ideas already swimming around in my head. Sometimes I ask just to be polite, even though I already have a nice plan forming, betting [...]
Posted in asian, favorites, healthy, one pot meal, pork, rice, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal on Apr 10th, 2008
I’m not very good at mise en place. I know that isn’t a sign of a particularly good cook, but I must be getting better lately because the kitchen isn’t so messy when I’m done cooking. I didn’t do a good job with this recipe though. I read “cook beans for 5-8 [...]
