Cuisine. Culture. Commentary.
When Albert made a special request for chicken parm for our Chrismukkah gift exchange, I had to learn how to make it quickly. Based on all the recipes I looked at, it seemed this is the kind of dish that you can make more complicated with herbs and frying…or easy with baking and some help…
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The Dish: There’s a scene in “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead” where Rose tells Sue Ellen to relax after a rough day by having a glass of wine and putting some cucumber slices on her eyes. When Sue Ellen responds that she’s all out of cucumbers, Rose says, “every girl over twenty-five should have…
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Kofta is a Middle Eastern or Indian meatball. I was lucky enough to find lamb version with masala sauce in the freezer section of Trader Joe’s ($4.99!) that required no more than 8-10 minutes in a pan. They are so flavorful – coriander, cumin, cinnamon, turmeric – so many spices! As long as they like…
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This side dish is basically cheating it’s so easy. Cook some rice (I use a rice cooker because it’s easier than easy, but an old fashioned pot is totes fine) and while there’s about 10 minutes left, sauté mushrooms and onions in butter with salt and pepper. Or if you’re using a rice cooker, it…
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When you think of baked ziti, it’s always marinara and mozz. You’d be amazed at what a difference switching to pesto can make. It’s still the same process of opening up a jar of store-bought sauce…the only difference is the sauce being green instead of red. Cook up 1/2 a box of ziti (this recipe…
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After my curried yogurt with beet and sweet potato chip post, I decided there was a hole in my food blogging. I post big dishes all the time but I rarely ever write about snacks. We all indulge in ‘tween the meal munching but there’s usually little variation. I, myself, am partial to white cheddar Pirate’s…
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I had been snacking on my latest cheese purchase, a goat cheese rolled in smoked paprika (I think) but decided I wanted to do something more with it than put it on crackers. The paprika gave it such a unique smoky flavor (one I don’t associate with the tang of goat cheese) that I thought…
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The first time I had crème fraîche was while I was living in France. Actually, that’s the only time I have ever had it because they don’t really make it here in the US. Sure, restaurants dollop some cream over berries and say it’s crème fraîche, but it’s not the same. In France, the texture…
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I bought some jalapeño chicken sausage with the intention of making some sort of jambalaya inspired rice dish. Intentions are great, but when you get home late with no time to buy any of the other necessary ingredients, intentions mean absolutely nothing. I opened up my fridge to see if there was anything I could…
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Experimenting with grilled cheese is fun. I’m a purist so I don’t believe you can add more than one non-cheese ingredient and still call it a grilled cheese. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t play around with different cheese varieties. This time, I wanted a cow’s milk Alpine cheese and went with Appenzeller Kaserei Tufertsch.…
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Peaches to Apples 