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 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 gluten free, potatoes, side dish, vegetables on Nov 21st, 2009
Isn’t that turnip the cutest little thing? Like an old crazed bald man, with just a few errant hairs.
In truth, when I was planning this dish, I had to call a friend to give me some root vegetable knowledge. Which is the one that looks like a white carrot? (A parsnip, it [...]
Posted in breakfast, eggs, fall, gluten free, one pot meal, pork, potatoes, vegetables on Oct 30th, 2009
While I can be, shall we say, particular about preparation, I think keeping an open mind is so important when it comes to both ingredients and certain dishes.
For example, stuffing. There’s nothing unpleasant about bread, seasonings, aromatics, and broth baked until the flavors are blended and the top is crispy. When people say [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, fall, freezer friendly, potatoes, quick bread, tuesdays with dorie on Oct 20th, 2009
I love that not just one, but two of this month’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipes are non-desserts. I haven’t baked a TWD dessert in weeks! I’ve gone almost a month with choosing all of my own desserts!
I don’t mean to complain; obviously I like being part of the group, or, well, I wouldn’t [...]
Posted in beans, breakfast, eggs, favorites, potatoes, vegetarian on Sep 21st, 2009
Do you have a food you love from your hometown that you can’t get anymore? For New Mexicans, that food will always be Hatch green chile. It’s ubiquitous in New Mexico, and you won’t just find it in enchiladas and chile rellenos and the like, but in more unexpected places, like eggs and [...]
Posted in cheese, gluten free, potatoes, side dish on Sep 17th, 2009
Bad habit: I cook new recipes at a much faster rate than I get around to writing about them here. By the time I’m ready to put them in the blog, I can’t remember what motivated me to make them in the first place. So instead of including some sort of personalized story that hopefully [...]
Posted in cheese, gluten free, one pot meal, pie, potatoes, summer, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal on Aug 16th, 2009
Dave and I have this conversation nearly once a week:
Me (whining, after baking all day): I’ve been cooking all day and I’m tired and I haven’t even stupid started dinner. Stupid stupid stupid.
Dave: Okay. We’ll order pizza.
Me: We can’t order pizza! I bought ingredients for dinner! If we don’t use them tonight, [...]
Posted in cheese, favorites, gluten free, healthy, potatoes, salad, summer, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal on Aug 2nd, 2009
This is a bit of a misnomer for me, as I haven’t found a convenient farmers market since we moved to Pennsylvania last January. We drove half an hour to one last year and bought some nice eggs, but it didn’t have much in the way of produce. I hear there’s another, 30 [...]
Posted in french, gluten free, potatoes, side dish on Jun 5th, 2009
When I saw this recipe is a recent issue of Cooks Illustrated, it was immediately registered as “for special occasions only.” Seriously, I consider regular mashed potatoes fairly decadent, much less the cheese-laden variety. But then I managed to create a special occasion: Dave and I found a cheap, good bottle of Pinot [...]
