Adventures in Eclectic Home Cooking
Posted in Site News on Dec 8th, 2010
We’ve been a little quiet here due to the holidays (Chanukah followed shortly after Thanksgiving this year) and then a rather unpleasant bought of the flu, but we simply can’t ignore this very important day! Get Cooking’s 2nd birthday! We’ve learned so much in the last two years, and hopefully you have too. We’ve explored [...]
Posted in Site News on Nov 22nd, 2010
A few months ago, I added a little feature to our sidebar here that pulls in interesting food related articles we are reading. It includes a mix of great posts from our blog roll, and also interesting food posts from non-food blogs. If you want to see the kinds of posts that are influencing me [...]
I could run off a huge list of excuses about the lack of posts lately, but I find those kinds of posts tiresome and I bet you do too. The most interesting reason that I’ve been a bit absent here is that it’s just been too gorgeous out to hang out in a hot kitchen. [...]
This may be premature, but tonight, after over 3 months of a very gripping sinus infection that took my senses of smell and taste captive (which you may remember me mentioning a few posts ago), I inhaled and I could smell! Then, I made a gravy for a chicken pot pie, and not only could [...]
Posted in Site News on Oct 19th, 2009
Just Bento published a guest post by yours truly this morning. The post features my take on Mabo Dofu, a Chinese turned Japanese dish that I fell in love with some years ago. The dish is simple, satisfying, while still tantalizing to the tongue and taste buds; it’s one of my favorites. It gave me [...]
After a long week of packing, moving and unpacking, eating mostly instant foods or takeout, it was refreshing to have a day off to enjoy the weather and some fresh, unprocessed produce before returning to work tomorrow. Because we noticed many of the cherry blossoms in our neighborhood blooming, we thought it would be a [...]
Posted in Site News on Apr 15th, 2009
Things have been a bit slow here at Get Cooking because Jen and I are in the process of moving to an apartment of our very own. We have mostly been cooking our favorite staples on repeat and enjoying delicious lunch boxes for days on end. While it has been tasty and comforting, there has [...]
