We didn’t always eat salad in my house. I don’t remember when the bowl of greens dressed in a simple vinaigrette first made an appearance… my mother seems to think she always…
Category: Recipes
Tuna Casserole-ish
I was not raised in a typical American household. My mother is a trained cook, and while she never went professional, her ability to replicate restaurant dishes from one taste is frankly…
Soup
More than any other time of year, I feel like winter screams for a certain kind of food, and that food is made in a deep stock pot. Winter is soup time….
Lasagna… replaced.
When I first learned how to cook (that is, cook things besides Kraft Dinner, omelettes and grilled cheese) more than three years ago, one of the first things I learned how to…
Pasta
I’ve been being a student recently, and thus have had very little time to post. But I haven’t forgotten about you, dear reader! Here’s a recipe for a pasta dish I made…
Spicy Roasted Chicken Thighs
I’ve been meaning to post about this chicken recipe for awhile. I got it off Luisa‘s site: it’s a recipe for spicy roasted chicken thighs. I accidentally forgot to mix the tomato…
Thanksgiving
I know… I know. I’ve been bad. It isn’t even that I haven’t been cooking! I have tons of recipes to share, plus I just got back from England, where I ate…
Rice Pudding
Sometimes, you just need something hot and delicious. I made myself rice pudding on one of those days recently, and of course, when I told my friend, she laughed at me. Aren’t…
Ratatouille
It’s a really good thing I got interested in cooking, or else I would have spent all of last July eating stuck-together spaghetti with a bit of jarred sauce. Let me explain….
Fried Eggs
What is it about fried eggs? They’re like a completely different animal from scrambled eggs or omelettes. There’s something about the barely cooked yolk breaking all over whatever else is on your…