Quick Tagine-Style Chicken with Couscous This is from a tiny little Rachael Ray cookbook called Top 30 30-Minute Meals. I’ve made it before and it’s quite good – a very flavorful and easy dish to pull together, and it reheats great for lunch. I like the dried fruit in it. Sesame-spiced turkey meatballs Smashed chickpea … Continue reading »
Category Archives: baking
Recent Recipes – Internet Edition
Whole Wheat Sandwich Bread I wanted to have some sandwich bread on hand and had recently come across this recipe, so I thought I’d try it. It came out quite well, though one of the loaves didn’t rise as much as the other. Not sure if I didn’t quite get the dough divided in half … Continue reading »
Recent Recipes – Cookbooks Edition
Olive Oil Ricotta Cake – The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook (December) Per her notes on this recipe, I split the cake into two layers and filled it with some of the Blue Apple Jam. I made two, and they were both a hit and quite easy to pull together. The cake itself wasn’t super sweet, and could easily … Continue reading »
Recent Recipes – Internet Edition
Basic Ranch Dressing Recipe Super easy to put together, which I did just over 24 hours before I planned to serve it. The flavors really developed in the time it sat in the fridge, and it is quite good. I substituted plain yogurt for the sour cream just because that’s what I had on hand. … Continue reading »
Recent Recipes
Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Brownies Oh, Joy the Baker. It’s all so delicious and these are no exception. Even when you make the (expensive) mistake of using almond butter instead of peanut butter. The pretzels stay crunchy (for a few days, anyway) and the sea salt on top was a brilliant trick that I am … Continue reading »
On Cooking
Let me start by explaining why I love to cook. Cooking is love. There is nothing in the world like creating a wonderful dish and seeing someone you care about enjoy it. Seeing the person smile and make that scrunched-forehead-while-chewing “OMG this is amazing” face… Seeing a hand reach for more… Sharing your techniques… Beautiful. … Continue reading »
Recent Recipes
Here’s another roundup of things I’ve cooked recently. Since I don’t have the constant influx of produce from the CSA and going to the market every weekend, what I’m trying to do is cook from recipes I’ve already found, for the most part. So I’m digging through my delicious bookmarks and poking around in my … Continue reading »
Brunch Ring
This was the other dish I made for my January brunch, and is yet another recipe from the January 2010 Vegetarian Times. This one was a big hit. Tasted great, looked impressive, and was easy to make. Essentially, it’s a tofu scramble encased in puff pastry. In this case the scramble uses some Indian spices, … Continue reading »
Pear & Cranberry Bread
I served this Pear & Cranberry Bread from Coconut & Lime at my January brunch party, along with a delicious tofu-based entree, the recipe for which you will see in a couple of days. This bread was quite easy to make, though it does require a food processor (or at least a better blender than … Continue reading »
Apple Cider Muffins
The weather has started to edge into fall, which means at night I start getting cravings for tea and carbs. So, when I spotted this Apple Cider Muffin recipe on Serious Eats, I knew I needed to kick off my muffin baking season with them. I picked up some cider and some stayman apples and … Continue reading »
