I had a bit of a craving for something resembling mac 'n' cheese today. Sadly, despite my love of Kraft's dessicated cheese powder when I was but a wee lad, I have seriously outgrown what used to be a major staple of my teenaged diet. Instead, I Googled up a handful of recipes, gathered half-a-dozen semi-random ingredients from my fridge, and set ( Read more... )

Today, in cleaning, I stumbled over a pile of printed-out recipes I'd been meaning to try for a while. Topmost amongst them, modified from an About.com recipe, was ( Seared Chicken Breast with Quick Pan Sauce. )

Back in Thanksgiving of 2007, my mom and sister flew all the way out here to Boston to visit me. A great time was had by all, and we did a ton of fantastically tasty cooking between the three of us. One of the things my mom made was her incredibly good stuffing -- great stuff, even without a turkey (hey, with three of us, we had leftovers enough ( Read more... )

I'm feeling a bit under the weather, and I have been since yesterday. Today I called in sick to work. Yesterday, though, I gutted it out and went in... but all day I was dragging about and feeling like crap. As the day ended, I found myself thinking fondly of soup... specifically, chicken and dumpling soup. I swung by the grocery store on the ( Read more... )

I had an odd craving for pizza yesterday afternoon at work. Not wishing to spend $15 or so on buying a pizza from a good local joint, I naturally went shopping and spent over $100 on groceries. *facepalm ( Read more... )

Based on the recipe from Madhur Jaffrey's Quick & Easy Indian Cooking.

( Mega-spicy Chappal Kebab. )

In my kitchen, on my bookshelf of cookbooks, there is a book I picked up on a whim from Borders a few months back. It was on clearance, you see, but it caught my eye -- Homestyle Stir-Fry, from Bay Books. (Bay Books is the publisher, and there doesn't seem to be a definitive author listed on the copyright page at the end of the book, so... *shrug ( Read more... )

I've got a great cookbook that I bought last summer -- Quick & Easy Thai, by Nancie McDermott. It's got a ton of great recipes in it, and there are more than a handful that I've been wanting to make but have lacked either time or ingredients for. This weekend, I finally had enough time to relax and make something I've had my eye on for a while: ( Yellow Curry Chicken with Potatoes. )

Adapted from Rhonda Lauren Parkinson's The Everything Chinese Cookbook. I didn't quite have all the ingrendients vegetable-wise that the recipe recommended, so I ended up snagging what fresh vegetables I had from my refrigerator and using them. It turned out surprisingly well, I think.

( Chicken Chow Mein. )

About a decade or so back, I stumbled over an author named Michaele Roessner. As far as I know, she only published three books... but all of them I found fantastically good. The latter two were mystical Renaissance period dramas, set in Italy around the time Caterina De'Medici was growing up: The Stars Dispose and The Stars Compel.The thing is, ( Read more... )