Posted in chocolate, custard, dessert, gluten free, tuesdays with dorie on Aug 10th, 2010
I was doubting Dorie when I mixed up the custard for this ice cream. It’s made like any other custard-based ice cream, so I would have sworn that Dorie threw “ganache” in the title just to make it sound fancier and more decadent, when in fact it was just standard chocolate ice cream. Oh, how [...]
Posted in beans, gluten free, healthy, salad, vegetables on Aug 5th, 2010
I am not a fan of those recipes that try to hide vegetables in foods where they clearly don’t belong. For one thing, “deceptive” is not a word I want applied to any of my relationships. For another, I strongly believe that if you cook vegetables correctly, they’re so tasty that there’s no reason to [...]
Posted in gluten free, grilling, healthy, lamb, sandwiches, vegetables on Jul 31st, 2010
I actually made this back in February, but I figured most of the world was covered in snow in February and thus, not doing much grilling. Haha, suckers, grilling season lasts year round in the desert! Well, year round unless there’s an extra dose of heat in the summer, in which case you’re huddled inside [...]
Posted in citrus, gluten free, grilling, healthy, potatoes, summer, vegetables on Jul 29th, 2010
Last year I said, “You know what always makes me twitchy? Hearing people talk about how they just have sooo many zucchini or tomatoes or whatever from their garden.” Squeeeee!!!! And now I am one of those people! I am I am I am I am!!! Okay, sort of. I have hundreds of tomatoes growing, [...]
Posted in citrus, fruit, gluten free, grilling, mexican, pork, vegetables on Jul 15th, 2010
I try not to be picky. I like to call myself ‘particular’ – about the quality of ingredients and the care put into the preparation of a dish; Dave calls it persnickety. But eliminating whole categories of food from my diet because of a random childhood prejudice seems like a perfect way to cheat myself [...]
Posted in beans, gluten free, good as leftovers, rice, side dish, vegetables on Jun 20th, 2010
Side dishes aren’t my strong suit. I often find myself googling dorky things like “what to serve with Jamaican jerk chicken?” Rice and peas kept coming up, and I kept bypassing it. Who wants green peas mixed with plain white rice? It turns out, of course, that rice and peas is nothing of the sort. [...]
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 cheese, citrus, gluten free, good as leftovers, healthy, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal, whole grains on May 22nd, 2010
I have annoying eating habits at work. Carrots – crunchy. Bananas – smelly. Hard-boiled eggs – crunchy (during the peeling) and smelly. My officemate is very tolerant. And on our first day in the office together, she asked me, “So is that how you stay thin? By eating healthy all the time?” Hmm… Call me [...]
Posted in custard, dessert, gluten free, tuesdays with dorie on May 3rd, 2010
I used to be so good with caramel. For years, I made caramel with no problems, and then when I made this hazelnut cake, everything changed. I can’t remember how many batches of caramel I made for that cake, each one forming crystals instead of turning amber; I do remember that even the final batch [...]
Posted in beef, breakfast, favorites, gluten free, pork, potatoes, vegetables on May 2nd, 2010
One time at the zoo, I walked by the reindeer exhibit, but they weren’t out. Huh, I thought. Bummer. I would have liked to see the reindeer. But on the other side of the path, there was another animal to ooh and ahh over, and I moved on. When the reindeer came back out just [...]
