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This isn’t a terribly original recipe, but it’s dead easy and absolutely delicious. It’s a mashup of the Penzey’s recipe for chicken tacos, and a chicken taco recipe from a back issue of Real Simple. It’s become my go-to taco recipe 1 lbs boneless, skinless chicken breasts canola or vegetable oil 1 onion, diced salt [...]
16 oz cole slaw 1 bag broccoli slaw 1 C grated carrot 1 C grated celery 1 C green onion, sliced 1 C toasted almond slices 1 C sunflower seeds 1 package ramen noodles, crumbled 2 T sesame seeds 1/2 cup oil 1/4 cup rice wine vinegar 1/4 cup soy sauce 1/4 cup honey 1/2 [...]
I have been spoiled, in that until recently I have always lived near at least one really good Indian restaurant. Now that the closest one with decent food is about 30 minutes away, I have been making do with a lot of Trader Joe’s frozen Indian dishes. That is, until about a month ago, [...]
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Surprise! Just when you think this blog is defunct, I bust out with a new post. When I set out to make egg parm tonight, I didn’t plan to blog it. I had never made it before, so I didn’t know how it would turn out. It ended up being so delicious, though, that I [...]
Ever feel stuck in a rut during grilling season? We often do, but the desire to use the grill often wins out over the lack of perceived options. Since we don’t get to spend a lot of time at home these days, we tend to focus on how we can make the most of our [...]
I’m willing to bet that most of you thought I forgot how to blog. Well, I didn’t forget how – I just haven’t had much of a chance to do so. Starting a little bit after my most recent post last autumn, I started a new job – a new job that requires me to [...]
It’s that time of year, friends. There’s a singular nip in the air most mornings. My cat wants to spend every waking moment roaming down by the river. I bought a long sleeved shirt and broke out an extra blanket for the bed. Finally, today, I turned the heat on. [...]
I admit it: I have been shameful in updating my blog. Since it’s the American thing to do, I will offer up a bevy of excuses. Almost one month ago, I quit taking Ambien. I also quit ingesting caffeine of any kind. And naps were straight out the window! Needless to say– sleep deprived, I [...]
Hi friends! If you’d like a little idea of what I’ve been baking lately, mosey on over to The Life and Loves of Grumpy’s Honeybunch. I’ve got a guest post on her blog while she’s on vacation, and it’s delicious: Blackberry Polenta Muffins. One word: yum! Posted in Cooking Tagged: blackberries muffins, breads, food [...]
Fourth of July, you say? But today is the first day of August! Yes, yes. However, I have been promising a recap of the menu for our Fourth of July Fiesta. I keep my promises! You’ve still got over a month of summer left, and this menu would be great for a cookout or barbecue [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I was planning my grocery shopping and asked my husband if there was anything he would like for dinner that night. After some consideration, he proffered, “Fried pork chops.” As soon as he said the words I was transported to my early childhood. I had not yet started living with my [...]
For the second week in a row, the Bread Baker’s Apprentice has taken on a couple of family-favorite foods. I have to admit, when I saw cornbread in the Bread Baker’s Apprentice, I was immediately skeptical. This cornbread was baked in the oven in a cake pan, had tons of sugar in it, used four [...]
Two weeks of cinnamon-laden breads? You might think that it would be overkill. I’ve grumbled about all these enriched breads before, but I take it all back. This cinnamon raisin walnut bread reminded me so much of the cinnamon raisin bread my grandma made when I was a little girl. There are a few differences, [...]
Look! I am fulfilling my promises in a very timely fashion. Here’s the final new recipe that I am going to provide to you from my Fourth of July Fiesta: tostones. And here’s the promise of great things to come! My next non-Bread Baker’s Apprentice post will be a recap of [...]
I promised when I posted the fresh pineapple salsa recipe last week that the recipe for the pork tacos I served it with would be forthcoming. Alas, I do not get to talk about scurvy again in this post. However, I do get to talk about pig, and that is always a delight. I chose [...]
Pineapple is one of my favorite fruits. Generally speaking, I love fruit, so this may come as no surprise. Pineapples long fascinated me with the way the turned up in weird places: the pediments of houses, carved into furniture, ceramic figurine. I learned, when I took a course in American Architecture several years ago, that [...]
I am going to apologize in advance for the woeful dearth of pictures I took of these cinnamon rolls and their making. They were easy and delicious, but I made them as part of my Fourth of July Fiesta. As such, I had a million kitchen projects going and didn’t get enough pictures. [...]
I made this salad a little while back, when radishes were first coming into season. I can’t resist making a cucumber salad; the cucumbers provide a perfect palette for building delicate vegetable flavors in a salad. In this salad, I really wanted to feature the crisp radishes. They had deep magenta color and the promise [...]
Ciabatta bread: this bread, along with bagels, focaccia, and sourdough baguettes tipped me from wondering if I should bake through the entire Bread Baker’s Apprentice to jumping in. I didn’t have to think long with a list of breads like that, but I briefly questioned the decision. Ciabatta, thus named because it is shaped like [...]
Another egg bread? I know, you must be sick of them. Seems like the Bread Baker’s Apprentice is front-loaded with enriched breads, a fate cast upon it by the rigors of alphabetical order. I thought I was tired of egg breads until I sliced into this challah. I had never eaten challah before, but believe [...]
Several months ago, I fell off the bandwagon for writing a monthly “Pie of the Month” feature for Appoggiatura. The rigors of working, cooking, developing recipes, and applying all of this to baked good started making it difficult. Testing pie recipes (and cake and cookie and all of that good stuff) is more difficult than [...]
There is an old adage that goes something like “Pork fat rules.” I tend to think that if a maxim has been repeated ad infinitum there is usually a reason it got to be that way. Take this Casatiello, for example. It’s an Italian variant of brioche of Neopolitan origin: a little less eggy, studded [...]
Right now I feel like I am in college again. I am racing against the deadline to get this first Daring Cooks post written; it’s due tonight by midnight. I thought it was to be posted tomorrow and only realized this when I started seeing all the recipes in my Google Reader tonight! Yikes! I am [...]
A celebration always calls for a little something sweet. Or so, at least, I think. Over Memorial Day weekend, Jeremy and I travelled up to the D.C. area to visit his brother and family. My sister-in-law’s birthday was the night before we went up, so we wanted to do something for her birthday. We decided [...]
Radish leaf pesto. Sounds a bit odd, doesn’t it? Last year when radishes were in season I learned that the leaves of radishes are completely edible. I thought that this was great news. I love radishes, and I like green leafy things. (n.b. I have to totally disagree with the Texas A&M Ag Department [...]
When I told my husband that I was making brioche this week he was interested, as usual, in the bread he would be trying. “So what’s in brioche?” “Oh, just a few sticks of butter, 5 eggs, and some whole milk. A little sugar–” It was at this point that he cut me off saying his angina had [...]
Last weekend I found myself in Blacksburg, VA on Saturday morning, with a long drive ahead of me back to West Point. I decided to check out their farmers’ market so I wouldn’t miss out on a week of local shopping. It was quite possible the best market I have been to. After making the [...]
Guacamole is a food I am often very picky about. Some are too smooth, some near blended, other too bland, and some just aren’t chip friendly. Texture ends up being the trait that makes it or breaks it as a great dip for me. If the flavor is off, I can squeeze over some lime [...]
Since embarking on the Bread Baker’s Apprentice challenge, I have really been looking forward to making the bagels. Before I moved to Virginia, I had a small problem– shall we say– with bagels. In particular, everything bagels are irresistable to me. I love them. I’ll eat them plain, buttered, with raspberry jam. Nothing compares to [...]
For the second bread I am baking from the Bread Baker’s Apprentice, I chose to make the Christopsomos version of the Artos breads. The Christopsomos is a Christmas-season bread, filled with dried fruits, and with a cross laminated on top. The bread can be made with a wild-yeast starter (a barm) or a poolish. So, [...]
Wow, I have been really lazy about updating ye olde blog lately, haven’t I? I just sat and flipped through pictures from my camera and realized that I’ve done some cooking. I’ve taken some pictures. I just haven’t written about it. So, it’s time to play a little catch up. Plus, I promise that for [...]
A couple of weeks ago, Nicole over at Pinch My Salt threw out the idea on Facebook that she was thinking of forming a group of people to bake their way through Peter Reinhart’s The Bread Baker’s Apprentice. I thought this was a great idea, and threw my name in immediately. I have been wanting to [...]
I feel a little ashamed posting two spaghetti recipes back-to-back. But, I’ve got neither the time to blog nor the time to cook lately to provide me with an alternative. Today marks the third morning I’ve woken up in our new house. After packing my kitchen up completely over a week ago, I have been [...]
When I found out I was going to receive a couple ounces of dried morels, I couldn’t have been more excited. I had just gotten married and gone to dinner at my favorite Athens restaurant. I was lucky enough to be there when they had gotten some morels, and I had an amazing first course [...]
It’s been a little while, right? I’ve been cooking for myself, but I haven’t had many good solo recipes. A lot of old favorites repeated, some cold pizza here and there, making enough food to eat off of for a couple of days– all of sudden, three months pass. Then, a night comes where I [...]
If you’re following me on Twitter, you might have seen my ecstatic post about finding blood oranges. Here in Athens, finding common delicacies like Meyer lemons and blood oranges are rare occasions indeed. I’ve seen Meyer lemons once, a year ago, and I’ve stumbled upon blood oranges two or three times. This, all in course [...]
So, today marks one year of writing this blog. It has certainly changed from what I initially set out to accomplish. My personal little recipe collection actually has handful of you out there reading it. I am amazed that I have stuck with this through all the stresses of work and such this past year. [...]
When I heard that March 20 was National Ravioli Day, I was immediately reminded of one of my first blog posts: Ravioli di Bruschetta. (n.b.: for a complete listing of all the national food holidays, check out this website). It was a great dish, and I made it last year because I had heard the same bit [...]
