Posted in dessert, food to share, make and store recipes on Nov 18th, 2009 No Comments »
Cold Snap! So tonight we had one of our all-time favorite comfort meals, Bob’s Chicken. We concluded our meal with my personal favorite dessert, crème brûlée. (Though molten chocolate cake takes the second place position with the slimmest of margins.) I’m not thrilled with the picture quality for this recipe, so I’ll definitely be making [...]
Posted in carrots, cheap meals, chicken, citrus, comfort, food to share, leftovers, make and store recipes, soup on Nov 13th, 2009 2 Comments »
Fall is fleeting, and winter is closing in on us. One of my favorite things about this part of the year is most people consider it acceptable – even gratifying – to eat soup at least once a week. National Soup Swap Day will be somewhere towards the end of January. I’ll be hosting one [...]
Posted in food to share, herbs, legumes, make and store recipes, sides on Oct 14th, 2009 2 Comments »
Cannellini Beans are ubiquitous this year. I’ve been talking to anyone who will listen about this years food trends. Reading as many food lits as I do, each year seems to garner ingredient trends. This year I see cannellini beans everywhere, along with smoked paprika – well smoked things in general. I’ll remember more later, [...]
Posted in bread, chicken, citrus, food to share, herbs, make and store recipes, sauce on Oct 13th, 2009 No Comments »
Is this technically even a pesto? Or just a texture similar to pesto involving pureed nuts, herbs, garlic and veggies. I don’t know. It seems in essence pesto generally refers to basil, pine nuts, garlic and olive oil, but has been expanded to include about a billion other things to create gourmet accouterments. This recipe [...]
Posted in chicken, comfort, food to share, make and store recipes, mushrooms on Oct 1st, 2009 2 Comments »
My sister had the recipe for college chicken casserole on an index card in her recipe box. The original source was a Cooking Light magazine issue from May 1998. Some time during the last decade, her index card was spilled on and only partially legible. Luckily, nearly everything survives on the Internet. I found a [...]
Posted in beef, cheap meals, comfort, Freezes Well, make and store recipes, soup on Sep 23rd, 2009 4 Comments »
When trying to recreate a recipe, it’s probably a good idea to have tasted it sometime in the last decade. I have this glorious memory of the Beef and Barley Soup served at the Madrigal dinners in my high school. I was a lowly serving wench back in those days, kept out of the kitchen [...]
Posted in food to share, frying, make and store recipes, vegetables on Sep 7th, 2009 No Comments »
Wow! Look at those crisps! When deciding what to serve with French Dip Sandwiches, my mind kept wandering to Houston’s Best. Sandwich. in. the. Free. World. I love the teeny, tiny, crispy french fries they serve as the side dish. In fact, Houston’s is one of only two places I even eat french fries. Steak [...]
Posted in dessert, food to share, herbs, make and store recipes on Sep 6th, 2009 5 Comments »
I haven’t had grasshopper pie since I was a kid, and I’m not even sure what prompted me to remember it. It may have stemmed from my minor obsession with mint. Mint tea, mint drinks, minted lemonade, dark chocolate and mint, mint ice cream, mojitos, you name it. Fresh mint has a very strong, earthy [...]
Posted in citrus, food to share, herbs, make and store recipes on Jul 20th, 2009 No Comments »
Last night I saw the Wallflowers perform at the Red Bute Gardens in Salt Lake City. I thought I was getting a beautiful picture of our picnic setup, but it was super bright and I guess I couldn’t tell it was all shadowy at the time. To the left is a fresh chive hummus I [...]
Posted in bread, easy meals, food to share, herbs, make and store recipes, olives, pasta on Jun 20th, 2009 1 Comment »
This post will wrap up the party food and I’ll be back to our regularly featured programming. I have an exciting plan to recreate an appetizer I had at The Porch Restaurant tomorrow, so tune back in for that. The end of the party preparation had me totally feeling like the Iron Chef. There was [...]
