Posted in favorites, freezer friendly, gluten free, healthy, mexican, potatoes, seafood, vegetables, weeknight meal on Feb 11th, 2010
I need every weekday meal to be exactly like this one.
First, it took only 20 minutes of actual effort. Sliced potatoes are softened in the microwave right in the baking dish. Meanwhile, I pureed a few other ingredients, mostly straight from cans, with my immersion blender. Then I laid some fish filets [...]
Posted in casserole, cheese, favorites, freezer friendly, pasta, vegetables, vegetarian, whole grains on Jan 21st, 2010
I am officially out of recipes to share. I am now raiding my “Probably Not” folder – the rejects that either didn’t taste good or didn’t photograph well. I’ll spare you that ones that didn’t taste good.
It seems like I could just make something new and blog about it, right? The thing [...]
Posted in breakfast, freezer friendly, quick bread on Jan 14th, 2010
I got scooped! I was just about to write an entry on these scones a few days ago and decided to go with the apple muffins instead. The next day Michelle posted about them. What are the chances?
Actually, considering that these first appeared on Barefoot Contessa Saturday morning, and by the time [...]
Posted in freezer friendly, gluten free, good as leftovers, lamb, winter/holidays on Jan 7th, 2010
Whenever I eat lamb, my first whiff of it always seems a little…off. Is lamb like feety cheese – stinky, but in a good way? Or am I just attuned to beef, and I’m surprised when the lamb smells different? Whatever, I’ve decided that I officially like lamb. Stinky or not.
This [...]
Posted in dinner party, freezer friendly, gluten free, potatoes, side dish on Dec 20th, 2009
Trust me, you don’t need a recipe for twice-baked potatoes. You know what makes twice-baked potatoes so good? Fat. The more butter and sour cream you add, the better your potatoes will be. The less you add, the better you’ll feel about eating those potatoes.
Decide what your goals are – if [...]
Posted in cookies, dessert, freezer friendly, french, tuesdays with dorie on Dec 8th, 2009
I was all excited about these cookies after I mixed up the dough, which tasted amazing. I was looking forward to how pretty they’d look once they were baked, tall and flat with glittery sugar around their edges.
Then I saw that there was some flavor variations that I could have played with. Because what’s [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, freezer friendly, fruit, tuesdays with dorie, yeast bread on Dec 4th, 2009
I’m very comfortable cutting recipes in half. Some people say that they don’t like to deal with the math, but I come from a family of three engineers and a math teacher, so I can handle math. Plus, I’m cooking for just two people now, and I lived alone for six years before [...]
Posted in chocolate, cookies, dessert, favorites, freezer friendly, winter/holidays on Nov 26th, 2009
It’s Thanksgiving! And that means it’s officially Christmastime!
Right?
Oh, it means something about giving thanks? Hmm. That’s cool too.
Still, once the feast is over, it’s all about Christmas. I used to try to hold off thinking about, hearing, and seeing anything Christmas-related until Thanksgiving, but you can imagine how successful that strategy [...]
Posted in chicken, freezer friendly, pie, pork, vegetables on Nov 23rd, 2009
Dave got yelled at over these empanadas. I’m not much of a yeller normally; I’m more of a silent treatment and glower type of person. But there was no time for that; action needed to be taken immediately.
It’s all because I made the filling a couple of days before I planned to form [...]
Posted in freezer friendly, good as leftovers, mexican, pork, recipe comparisons on Nov 18th, 2009
A carne adovada comparison post is a very bad idea because:
1. I don’t love cooking with meat, with the constant hand-washing and being careful not to contaminate cooked meat tools with raw meat tools.
2. My limited counter space makes working with large roasts difficult.
3. The oven was on for four hours – in July.
4. One [...]
