Overall, this recipe was a hit and I wanted to make it again right away. It was a little difficult to roll after getting it out of the freezer because the butter was oozing from the seams and it seemed a bit messy to make. Still, the final product tasted great and my boyfriend ate 5 rolls with his dinner ( Read more... )

For a while there, it seemed to be all the rage to post Crispy Kale photos. It sounded intriguing but I just filed it away in the Recipes To Try folder. My boyfriend doesn't care much for kale, you see. So we got spinach instead for our leafy greens. But then last summer I saw kale chips being sold for $8 for a small box and remembered that I had ( Read more... )

Heading out to the grill? I found this recipe when I was looking for a new way to make pork kabobs. I skipped the green peppers and used onions and zucchini instead. I chopped the onions into wedgees and also tossed some thick coin-shaped slices of zucchini in grapeseed oil to coat and then shook on some salt. Made skewers of pork, onion, and ( Read more... )

Time to trot out all the recipes I've tried that use summer ingredients. Made this one last year and liked it a lot. Brian liked that it wasn't too sweet but thought it was almost a little too buttery/fatty. And since he's not such a blueberry fan anyhow, he wasn't so keen on it (even though he did eat 2 pieces). I liked eating this for breakfast ( Read more... )

Having cooked up Spicy Cumin Lamb Shoulder Chops yet again, I looked at all the grease left in the pan. On the cutting board stood a few more big pieces of fat I had trimmed from the chops before cooking them. I'm not sure why there's so much fat in lamb but it seems to be the fattiest of the meats I regularly cook up. Maybe it's because fat is ( Read more... )

With all the bread making attempts, we frequently have some leftover stale bread. I imagine this soup would also be great during the summer for those of you with a surplus of fresh tomatoes. This is the version I made after reading a bunch of recipes for Pappa al Pomodoro. Yum! We were already happy with it and then it got really really tasty the ( Read more... )

AnnieEats mentioned a recipe for Confetti Cabbage Salad with Spicy Peanut Dressing. After poking around online, I think she was using this recipe. I decided to adapt it a bit to suit the ingredients I had at home, producing this recipe for Spicy Sesame Napa Cabbage and Carrot Salad. I later tried it with green cabbage too but I like Napa Cabbage more. I ( Read more... )

Those of you with access with Fairway Market in NYC, go indulge yourself with a bottle of their house-branded balsamic vinegar. Tastes like the balsamics that have been aged for 12 years but at a much more affordable price. When we got home, our previous bottle of balsamic vinegar tasted like lighter fluid in comparison to Fairway's balsamic. Good ( Read more... )

So have you been practicing baking bread since my last post about using the Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day method? I hope a few of you tried it. I had promised to come back with variations and then got busy with other things. (No wait, I mean...I wanted to give you a chance to practice the basic version first ( Read more... )

Want a hearty hot breakfast this weekend without needing to do a lot of work in the morning? I assembled this casserole the night before and kept it in the fridge overnight. Next morning, I popped it in the oven, went for a run, and came back to a hot breakfast. This one's another good dish for using up stale bread ( Read more... )