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Thursday, November 15th, 2007We love Cook’s Illustrated and watching America’s Test Kitchen on TV. More than once, Oak or I have said, that would be a fun job… just testing and tasting recipes all day!! (Of course, this is a passing thought.. as making the same dish 35 times with different equipment would surely get [...]
What is in my broccoli soup?? BROCCOLI!
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007This entry title is inspired by one of our favorite Gordon Ramsay quotes. Hell’s Kitchen; someone made a broccoli soup that was curried, or in some way overcomplicated for Chef Ramsay’s taste. So, when I saw a recipe for broccoli soup in the September 2007 issue of Everyday Food, I just had [...]
Faking Chinese
Monday, September 17th, 2007Everyone makes fun of my obsession with bad Chinese food. I just can’t help myself. I don’t care if it’s strip mall Chinese or mall Chinese, I’ll eat it. Of course, I also do enjoy the quality stuff as well.
Until recently the only place that we ate Chinese food was out at [...]
Panzanella
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007On Friday night, we didn’t particularly feel like cooking. So we went to Panzanella. Panzanella is owned by the same co-op as the Weaver Street Market, which means that they have tons of fresh and local ingredients. Yum. I had “Niman ranch pork loin marsala” and Oak had “Yukon gold potato gnocchi.” Both were [...]
Quinoa
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007I first heard of quinoa when I was watching the fast-food focused documentary Super Size Me. Morgan Spurlock was about to go on his mission of eating McDonalds 3 meals a day for a month, and his health-food obsessed vegan girlfriend made him his “last meal” - I think it was roasted vegetable [...]
Summer food and feet
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006Another success with the Le Creuset: Braised short ribs. Though, we actually used beef back ribs, I’m not sure I would have been able to tell the difference anyway. Oak was so excited about cleaning the pot because everything wiped off easily, even after constant use for 4 hours. Amazing. [...]
Le Creuset
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006Among many other professional cookware items, we received a 5.5 qt round Le Creuset pot (in Kiwi) for our wedding (thanks Mom and Dave!) Tonight we used it for the first time and made some delicious pasta sauce.
Some things to ponder :
How to care for your Le Creuset - very important.
Possible recipes:
Red wine pot [...]
Hot dog night
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006So, we had our first official hot dog night. Nathan’s hot dogs (our personal favorite) were on sale at Harris Teeter. We stocked up on mustard varieties, sauerkraut (just for Oak) and waffle fries. After searching the grocery store to no avail, we even made some NY red onion sauce inspired by [...]
Exploring the puff
Tuesday, December 20th, 2005Oak and I are completely, utterly obsessed with Good Eats. After seeing an inspirational episode on puff pastry (complete with catchy puff pastry theme song).
So, we decided to freely experiment with the stuff, and the results were very delicious indeed! See the rest of the photos on My flickr page.
