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 minutes” and I [...]
Sometimes I don’t know what gets into me. Last week, I became determined to make my own sushi. But what possible good could this serve? I certainly wasn’t expecting to exceed the quality of the sushi restaurants I’ve been to. I couldn’t, or at least didn’t want to, make it any healthier. And with the [...]
Posted in appetizers, asian, beans, chicken, healthy, pork, soup, tofu, vegetarian on Feb 5th, 2008
I have backlog of soups to be blogged, so I’m going to throw them all into one soupfest entry. First up is lentil soup, which I was excited about because I found the fancy French lentils, but it seems like I’m cursed to never quite have all the right ingredients for this soup. The first [...]
Posted in appetizers, asian, healthy, pork on Jan 31st, 2008
I am not good at timing my cooking. I had grand plans for these potstickers to be part of an all day sporadic eating event during the NFL championship games. We’d eat potstickers in the first game, hot and sour soup at the beginning of the second game, and dessert sometime later. But my timing [...]
Posted in asian, bread, favorites, good as leftovers, healthy, pork, quick bread, vegetables on Jan 18th, 2008
I haven’t been reading food blogs long – only about a week longer than I’ve had my own, in fact – but I’m already playing favorites. One of the blogs that first caught my attention and held it is Jen’s use real butter. Jen’s blog has what I consider the three requisite aspects of a [...]
Posted in asian, favorites, healthy, one pot meal, pasta, seafood on Jan 2nd, 2008
I always seem to fool myself into thinking that pad thai is a good weeknight meal. Then I’ll get home from work and start prepping ingredients, and then I’m prepping and prepping and finally asking Dave to help because I’ve been in the kitchen over half an hour and I haven’t even started cooking yet. [...]
