Adventures in Eclectic Home Cooking
Posted in Recipes on Aug 10th, 2009
With very little effort, this dish reminds me of a Syrian dish my grandmother used to make with lamb, Swiss chard and chick peas. Collards are an amazing leafy green that are relatively easy to find in the frozen section of grocery stores all year round in my region. This hearty side is packed with [...]
Posted in Recipes on Aug 2nd, 2009
I love egg salad, but whenever I eat it, I can’t help but feel guilty. My guilt probably stems from the fact that I’d never sit and eat more than two hard boiled eggs, but I would eat several heaping servings of egg salad without a second thought. I have the same difficulty saying no [...]
Posted in Food Features on May 28th, 2009
Shamefully, I let the end of a delicious loaf of marble rye go stale longer ago than I care to admit. For the last few days, I’ve been keeping an eye out for recipes that called for hard bread. At first I thought I’d make it into bread crumbs but my laziness for cleaning crumbs [...]
Earlier this week I was invited to an impromptu potluck event for a large number of people. I wasn’t sure what other people might be bringing and knew I would have less than 2 hours to cook and get over to the event. I had no time to shop and still not very many fresh [...]
Posted in Guilty Pleasures, Recipes, Technique on Apr 7th, 2009
Brussels sprouts have a bad reputation. At some point when we were kids, we heard a rumor that they were gross. They were the “punishment” vegetable kids on TV were always forced to eat. Surely they were part of a nationwide parental scheme to fool children into being “healthy.” And who even knew what they [...]
Posted in Recipes on Apr 1st, 2009
This post is a companion piece to a recipe I wrote as guest blogger on Just Bento, Curried Lentil “Risotto”. Please check it out there and let me know if you enjoy it. Together, these have been some of my favorite recipes lately. Thank you Maki for giving me a little space on your awesome [...]
Posted in Recipes on Mar 19th, 2009
Sauces are perhaps my favorite type of food to cook. They can be so versatile in flavor and texture. They liven up ordinary ingredients. This velvety lemon mushroom sauce can be used as an ingredient in many recipes, simply poured over a bowl of pasta, or served aside a warm cut of meat or a [...]
Posted in Food Features, Recipes on Mar 14th, 2009
After a recent trip to the local wholesale warehouse, we ended up several pounds of almonds, pecans and walnuts on our hands. Emily over at Dragonfly: Tales from the Phantom Rickshaw posted a recipe for almond milk that sounded like such a simple and tasty use for almonds, I just had to try it. Good [...]
Posted in Equipment, Guilty Pleasures on Mar 5th, 2009
Many of you may know, that I, like Alton Brown, hate kitchen gadgets that only do one thing. To justify the real estate taken up by a huge gadget like a waffle iron, I try to find as many unusual uses for the thing as possible. That’s why I was thrilled to read about Maki’s [...]
Posted in Recipes on Mar 1st, 2009
Winter is still holding on to us tight here in New York. Today we had what I hope will be our last snow of the season. Most vegetables are coming out of my freezer and pantry these days, instead of fresh from the market. Earlier this winter, when everything was fresher, I was content to [...]
