Posted in easy meals, sides, vegetables on Oct 6th, 2011 2 Comments »
“Crunchy Green Beans with Almonds and Butter!” cries the smallest of my small ones. Not that he’s very small any more, as he’s approaching his fifth birthday. This is likely both my children’s very favorite vegetable, yet hell hath no fury if I run out of slivered almonds. The proper name for the tiny french [...]
Posted in cheap meals, comfort, sides, vegetables on Nov 17th, 2010 5 Comments »
I never knew so many people struggle with preparing mashed potatoes at home! I frequently hear from readers or friends that they consistently fail with mashed potatoes. And conversely, people (especially my friend Rachel) claim to crave my mashed potatoes. Back in the hey day of my Sunday dinners, I used to make mashed potatoes [...]
Posted in cheese, comfort, sides, vegetables on May 29th, 2010 1 Comment »
Some potatoes au gratin recipes are cheeseless – simply potatoes made in a cream sauce. When I hear potatoes au gratin, I really hear melted cheese disguised as a vegetable. I always feel robbed if I order them, and the cheese is mysteriously absent. This recipe is adapted from my mac and cheese recipe, which [...]
Posted in cabbage, cheap meals, Mexican, seafood on Jan 18th, 2010 2 Comments »
Fish tacos were a bizarre and astonishing menu item when I first moved to Austin back in the mid 90′s. I certainly never saw them on the menu in the midwest, and frankly, they took a long time for me to warm up to. SMIL loves this restaurant Z’Tejas. Like ridiculously beyond over-enthusaistically loves this [...]
Posted in appetizers, food to share, vegetables on Jan 8th, 2010 6 Comments »
Mediterranean Diets are often considered amongst the most healthy in the world and have been found to significantly increase life expectancy. I’m thinking much of this could be due to the amount of labor involved in making a Mediterranean appetizer plate. Seriously, to make 7 fresh pitas, baba ghanoush, tabouleh, and hummus took me about [...]
Posted in asparagus, food to share, soup, vegetables on Dec 24th, 2009 1 Comment »
Happy Holidays my dear readers! I hope this season fills you with love and warmth and your kitchen feels like the happiest place in your home. This year has flown by me. I know that’s trite and ridiculous, and I’m showing my age but seriously. That’s how it has felt. It feels like it *should* [...]
Posted in chicken, citrus, easy meals, sides, vegetables on Dec 16th, 2009 No Comments »
I’m back! Sorry for the long hiatus in posting. Life has just been beyond busy, and frankly, I’ve been suffering from a lack of inspiration so I’ve been cooking many meals which I’ve already blogged. I’ve been focusing my creative juices in some other places, some worthwhile, some not so much. Anyway, I sought out [...]
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 bread, vegetables on Oct 9th, 2009 2 Comments »
I’ve been thinking about pumpkin bread ever since I left San Francisco. My nephew is obsessed, which in and of itself is a curiosity, since for the time being he’s generally offended by food. 85% of canned pumpkin hails from a small town, that I guess could be considered a suburb of where I grew [...]
Posted in asparagus, citrus, comfort, sauce on Sep 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
I’ve always shyed away from hollandaise sauce in restaurants, mainly, because I thought it was a yellow mayonnaise. The horror, I have a life altering fear of mayonnaise. I’m working on it, albeit halfheartedly, since for health reasons, why would one ever attempt to learn to love mayonnaise? That said, I like butter, I really [...]
