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 eggs, pork, rice, vegetables on Nov 2nd, 2009
I feel a little guilty when Dave and I spend most of the weekend sleeping in, watching football, reading books, and, in my case, cooking. We are booooring. But then I figure that someday, if everything goes as planned, we’ll have kids and then we won’t be able to spend all weekend being lazy. I [...]
Posted in cheese, fall, gluten free, rice, side dish, vegetables on Oct 17th, 2009
Everyone’s goal for their food blog is different. Are you keeping a log of recipes you make for your own sake – to store them somewhere, or to track your progress as a cook? Do you only publish recipes that you recommend others make? Do you have a blog just to cook along with various [...]
Posted in alcohol, cheese, gluten free, italian, rice, vegetables on Sep 14th, 2009
Although I think that adding green pepper is the easiest way to ruin otherwise perfectly good pizza, I’m not in general a picky eater. There are no common ingredients that I refuse to eat, I’m game to try just about anything, and I think even green pepper has its place. (Caveat: margarine and the like [...]
Posted in gluten free, healthy, indian, rice, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal on Aug 13th, 2009
I’m particular about cookbooks. I’ve gotten into the habit of buying one hopefully comprehensive cookbook per cuisine. It started with Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking and Marcella Hazen’s Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking, then it was Corinne Trang’s Essentials of Asian Cooking, and most recently, Julie Sahni’s Classic Indian Cooking. The thing [...]
Posted in asian, cheese, gluten free, rice, seafood, vegetables on Feb 8th, 2009
A third grader was telling me once about her favorite restaurant, and she said that it served “eggs and bagels and bacon and everything good.” That’s kind of how this sushi roll is – full of fish and cream cheese and avocado and everything good. And then it’s fried. The first time Dave and I [...]
Posted in custard, dessert, gluten free, rice on Nov 18th, 2008
I thought Tuesdays with Dorie was going to mutiny this week. Isabelle chose rice pudding for us to make, but the recipe has a mistake in it regarding the cooking time, and Dorie was traveling without an internet connection and wasn’t able to give us a heads up until many of us had already had [...]
Posted in asian, favorites, gluten free, healthy, one pot meal, rice, seafood, vegetables on Oct 24th, 2008
I’m so proud of this recipe. I actually came up with the idea on my own. Whoa. Not that sushi ingredients mixed up in a bowl is a groundbreaking idea, but that isn’t the point. The point is that I didn’t know there was already a recipe out there when I came up with it. [...]
Posted in asian, healthy, one pot meal, rice, seafood, vegetables on Jun 26th, 2008
I almost always ask Dave if he wants any input on our meals for the upcoming week, looking either for new ideas or for a way to limit all the ideas already swimming around in my head. Sometimes I ask just to be polite, even though I already have a nice plan forming, betting on [...]
Posted in beans, favorites, gluten free, one pot meal, pork, rice, weeknight meal on May 1st, 2008
I love beans. This is a recent revelation, as the only beans I remember eating as a kid were refried or mixed with hot dogs. (And just like that, pork and beans has been added to my “To Cook” list.) I’m not sure if it’s the beans that are so good, or the type of [...]
