There are certain food combinations that, to me, seem timeless. No matter how much we advance in cooking, people always seem to be doing a riff off the same old thing: peanut…
Category: Recipes
Please Change Battery Pack
How annoying is this? I had put together a very good looking meal. Lots of colors: roasted chicken, crispy and golden, pumpkin pasta with bright orange sauce and green beans with caramelized…
Chunky Dal
I usually don’t think too much about garnishing in general. Don’t get me wrong… if I didn’t care how my food looked, I wouldn’t be running a food blog, now would I?…
Cake Day
I’ve mentioned the fact that Saturday is baking day in my house before. Every Saturday, I pick something from the endless list of recipes for cupcakes, brownies, quickbread, muffins, and other desserts,…
Steak and Red Onion Quesadillas
Up until this point, on my blog, I haven’t participated in too many food challenges. I’m not too sure why… maybe it’s because I always had so many food goals to achieve…
Festa Italiana!
By now, I must have about ten different versions of tomato-based pasta sauces on here… I know that I should stop, but really, I can’t help it: other people have a favorite…
An Announcement
I am finally back to the blogging world, and I have an announcement for all of you who have been waiting and praying I would come back (I know you’re out there,…
Pasta with Egg and Shallot
In the tradition of pasta carbonara, I took cooked pasta and uncooked eggs and came up with this. It’s not really the same as carbonara: as you can probably see, the eggs…
Cinnamon Loaf
I once told my roommate my theory of the “unit:” making things where the size of “one” is bigger is best. For example, when you make muffins, you have a dozen little…
Ragú con Salsiccia
Sometimes, I make recipes that I absolutely adore, and then when it comes time to blog about them, I have very little to say. This ragú di salsiccia recipe, for example, which…