Wednesday, February 20, 2013
I’ve been wanting to increase the amount of fish that we eat since it’s good for you and Rob and I both like it, but the sustainability issue is one that really bothers me. Ideally, I’d like to limit my part in fishing species out of existence. Sardines are generally regarded as a good choice [...]
Monday, February 11, 2013
Hot fudge sauce always seemed sort of like not a pain, exactly, but like more effort than you needed for chocolate sauce. When you could just melt some chocolate and cream together and have a perfect ganache for any occasion, why would you bother with all of those extra ingredients and I never had corn [...]
This one, I’m sorry to report, was a bust, pasty and pretty bland. I don’t necessarily want to blame the recipe since I tweaked it a fair amount, but it’s hard to imagine that any of the changes (no sherry in the house, so deglazed with white wine; no leeks at our grocery store, so [...]
As I’ve been putting together my list of potential dishes for this project, I’ve had a few criteria in mind. The main ones though are whether I’ve made this particular thing before and whether it’s likely to be delicious. I’ve always liked twice-baked potatoes when I’ve come across them, but when I’ve baked potatoes at [...]
I’ve had this Cauliflower, Fennel, and White Bean Salad recipe printed out and in my recipe binder for, oh, looks like about four years now. I was inspired to finally make it because of the namesake salad at my favorite lunch place near the office: a mix of fennel, chickpeas, and olives with coriander leaves [...]
Somehow, I’d never gotten around to making my own hummus. I eat a lot of hummus and I’ve made plenty of other pureed bean dips, but just had never done it. It was never an issue when I worked near Sahadi’s and had regular access to their frankly perfect version, but I’m not in that [...]
I have access to a lot of new cookbooks as part of my job. It’s a pretty fantastic perk, really, but the growing stack on top of my fridge is starting to stress me out a little. There’s so much good stuff in there just going to waste. So, in the flush of excitement at [...]
This is a current favorite dinner around here, spicy ground beef wrapped up in lettuce. I know I started with a recipe for these at one point, but I’m honestly not sure anymore where it came from anymore and it’s more of a loose outline than a recipe anyway. For two people, you start with [...]
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
This Brazilian fish stew, moqueca, was absolutely delicious: tomatoes, peppers, coconut milk, onion, and citrus. The fish is marinated in lime juice before being cooked and I remember thinking that was strange, since it would be ceviche-ified before it was cooked, but it ended up making perfect sense; “cooking” it a little beforehand helped keep [...]
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I’ve been eating a lot of watermelon this summer. It’s never really blown my skirt up in years past, but for some reason I just can’t get enough of it now. Cold, sweet, juicy watermelon is exactly what I want on these hot, sticky days. Going through a watermelon a week or so piles up [...]
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