Posted in cheese, italian, pasta, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal on Feb 21st, 2010
I’m all about taking water out of ingredients. Zucchini, eggplant, cabbage, tomatoes, tofu, even bread for French toast. Water doesn’t contribute flavor, so if it isn’t improving texture, I have no use for it.
In this recipe, ricotta is drained in cheesecloth for several hours, then baked. What I thought would happen is [...]
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 cheese, pasta, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal, whole grains on Jan 28th, 2010
I don’t think I do too badly with self-control. I can sit at home all day with banana cream pie in the fridge and not even think about it until it’s time for dessert and tea. I don’t drink alcohol on weekdays (those extra calories are saved for dessert), and it isn’t a [...]
Posted in fruit, gluten free, good as leftovers, healthy, nuts, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal on Nov 14th, 2009
I sort of hate when I find great recipes from blogs that come from a cookbook I already own. I guess it makes sense – now it isn’t just words on a page because someone (in this case, a number of people) is actually recommending it. But man, I sure wish that I [...]
Posted in beans, favorites, healthy, sandwiches, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal, whole grains on Oct 15th, 2009
I believe that people are what they think they are, which is just a less fancy way of saying that you can do just about anything you think you can do. I remember in high school, I consistently got an 89% in my classes, and I always wondered why I hadn’t worked just a [...]
Posted in cheese, favorites, one pot meal, pasta, summer, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal on Aug 21st, 2009
I know I’ve been harping on my love of summer lately, and I did the same thing last year. Honestly, while summer is undoubtedly my favorite season, fall is a not-too-distant second, and really, there are aspects I like about every season. But summer doesn’t just have sunlight and warmth and lightning bugs [...]
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 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 [...]
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 cheese, healthy, one pot meal, pasta, soup, spring, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal on Jul 23rd, 2009
It turns out that pea-picking is way more fun than strawberry picking. For one thing, it isn’t nearly as crowded. Shocking, I know, that strawberries are more popular than peas. There’s also nothing squishy lurking under the foliage, and the peas are plentiful and just demanding to be picked. And pick [...]
