I don’t currently have any strong food aversions, but when I was a kid, I refused to eat soybean products. My mom would painstakingly make soy milk by hand, soaking the soybeans and then wringing them through a cheesecloth – but I refused to drink it. And, being a Chinese family, she also cooked a [...]
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Red Curry Tofu
Posted in Asian, Entrees, Quick on July 30, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Tuesdays with Dorie – Summer Fruit Galette
Posted in Sweets, Tuesdays with Dorie on July 29, 2008 | 18 Comments »
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe was selected by Michelle in Colorado Springs. I was excited to make Dorie’s Summer Fruit Galette (pages 366-367 in “Baking: from my home to yours.” I’d never made a galette before, though I knew it would be very much like a pie. I decided to use a mix of [...]
Saturday Brunch
Posted in Breakfast/Brunch, Sweets on July 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A good friend of ours was in town for the weekend, so we had him over for brunch. Saturday brunch is always one of my favorite meals of the week. On Saturdays, we almost always have brunch in the late morning rather than breakfast and then a separate lunch later on. And it’s usually something [...]
Chicken Pot Pie
Posted in Entrees on July 25, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Chicken pot pie doesn’t sound like anything special, but this was a great dinner! I admit, I didn’t work too hard on making it look nice – I was starting to run low on time and just wanted to get the pies into the oven – but they tasted great. I really don’t think I’ve [...]
Using up leftovers
Posted in Asian, Entrees, Quick on July 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Do you have a favorite way of using up leftovers? I almost always make fried rice. I don’t think I’ve ever made two versions of fried rice that were exactly the same b/c I really do just throw whatever I have available into it. It’s funny, because when I was a kid, [...]
Chicken and Shrimp Pad Thai
Posted in Asian, Entrees on July 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Pad thai is one of those dishes I never thought I would attempt at home. The first time I had pad thai was during my first week of college and Thai food was completely foreign to me. A friend suggested the pad thai, telling me that it was a dish that most people [...]
Jambalaya
Posted in Entrees on July 22, 2008 | 8 Comments »
During a visit to the farmer’s market last week, I found myself drawn to a package of free range andouille pork sausage at one vendor. I didn’t have a plan for it, which is unusual for me. I’m kind of Type-A – I make a menu of the week’s meals and only buy what I [...]
Cobbler for Tuesdays with Dorie
Posted in Sweets, Tuesdays with Dorie on July 22, 2008 | 15 Comments »
The recipe selected this week for Tuesdays with Dorie is the cherry rhubarb cobbler on page 415 of Dorie’s “Baking, from my home to yours.” Not only had I never made a cobbler, but I realized after reading the recipe that I never really knew what a cobbler was. I think I always confused cobblers [...]
A Cookie for World Peace
Posted in Sweets on July 20, 2008 | 11 Comments »
A friend of Dorie Greenspan’s dubbed these cookies as “World Peace Cookies” with the philosophy that if everybody in the world had these cookies, the world would be at peace. That’s a lot of pressure for a cookie to live up to, and I’m not entirely sure cookies could solve the world’s problems, but I [...]
Honey and Hoisin Glazed Chicken Wings
Posted in Entrees on July 19, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Chicken wings may be my favorite part of the chicken. I rarely cook with chicken breast. It’s the most expensive cut of the chicken, and it dries out so easily. The last time I cooked with chicken breasts, it was wrapped in bacon. I don’t mind paying [...]
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