Posted in alcohol, cheese, favorites, freezer friendly, good as leftovers, italian, pasta, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal on Aug 19th, 2010
People keep asking me how my recent vacation was, and I can’t think of any response other “so, so good.” How else do you sum up a week of playing in the waves, drinking margaritas, snorkeling, baking cookies, swimming with sea lions, watching shooting stars, eating shrimp tacos, and just basically everything that is good. [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, freezer friendly, french, recipe comparisons, yeast bread on Jun 13th, 2010
I worked in a lab for years, but I never absolutely loved it. You’d think I would have, considering that I basically mixed up ingredients and baked them, but I guess without that crucial eating-the-batter – sorry, of course I mean that eating-the-result step, it just wasn’t as fun. Plus I could never get the [...]
Posted in freezer friendly, gluten free, grilling, sandwiches, turkey on May 26th, 2010
Working full-time sure is…time-consuming, isn’t it? I haven’t figured out yet what has to give. (First choice – chores!) Cooking, blogging, photography, gardening, exercising…sleeping. It’s hard to balance everything. It’s possible that I should cut down on meals that require grinding your own meat, huh? Well, I would consider that, except that these burgers were [...]
Posted in chocolate, custard, dessert, freezer friendly, fruit, pie, summer on May 25th, 2010
The rest of the country (hemisphere, I suppose) is gearing up for summer. Here in the desert though, we’ve been there for a while. This weekend Dave and I hiked over seven miles in 90 degree weather. It’s a dry heat though! (Actually, the hike wasn’t bad at all – it was either shady or [...]
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 bread, breakfast, freezer friendly, quick bread, tuesdays with dorie on Apr 20th, 2010
I was all set to make the tiniest portion of this recipe and serve little bitty biscuits with salad for dinner. And then Dorie mentioned ham sandwiches in the headnote and I started thinking about adding eggs and cheese to that and suddenly I was making extra dough to freeze. Breakfast sandwiches are on my [...]
Posted in cheese, freezer friendly, italian, pasta, vegetables, vegetarian on Apr 2nd, 2010
Spring break was last week. I miss it already. On the other hand, I’m apparently bad at spring break. I had plans to do all these big things, and then when I didn’t get every single one of them done, to perfection, every day, I got all annoyed. Plus, you know what I did instead [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, freezer friendly, french, whole grains, yeast bread on Mar 25th, 2010
This recipe cracks me up. Each little brioche roll has 1¼ tablespoons of butter in it, so it doesn’t matter how much whole grain you use – these are not good for you. They are, however, good. Of course they don’t have much in common with their white flour cousins, which, if we were talking [...]
Posted in casserole, cheese, chicken, freezer friendly, good as leftovers, italian, pasta, vegetables on Mar 24th, 2010
I’m hardcore – I made an Emeril recipe more complicated. I did skip a few of his steps, so maybe I’m not completely ridiculous. It’s just that if I’m going to go through all the trouble of making lasagna, with cooking chicken, stirring béchamel, layering and baking, I might as well go all the way [...]
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 over the [...]
