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% [...]
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. [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Posted in appetizers, bread, cheese, daring bakers, dips, yeast bread on Sep 27th, 2008
This is the first Daring Baker recipe that has not only been from a cookbook I own, but was a recipe that I had planned to make soon anyway. Since football season started a few weeks ago, I’ve made Sunday into a snack day instead of serving an actual meal, which gives me a [...]
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 appetizers, beans, dips, healthy, vegetarian on Jun 6th, 2008
Oh my gosh, this was such a great meal. I had something similar at a restaurant a while ago when Dave and I stopped for lunch in Syracuse’s university area. I got the vegetarian combination plate, which included hummus, falafel, baba ganoush, pita, and I think tabbouleh. I was trying to recreate [...]
Posted in appetizers, cheese, dips, healthy on Feb 4th, 2008
This post comes too late. Two days ago, everyone was planning their snacks for the Superbowl. Today, we’re recovering from overeating, overdrinking, and how did the Giants beat the Patriots? But I think these dishes have their place on any day. Now that I’ve tried them myself and can attest [...]
Posted in appetizers, dips, vegetables on Dec 6th, 2007
There are those people who love vegetables. They want nothing more than a big plate of perfectly steamed broccoli or braised Brussels sprouts. My husband is like this, and so is my mom. These people are lucky.
I don’t hate vegetables. If they’re cooked just right, I find them pretty darn edible. [...]
