Today Catherine (ambiguously ONE of my two roommates) and I went to a local Asian grocery store, United Noodles. I had heard of it before but had never actually been inside. I don't know if you know this about me, but I LOVE grocery stores. Even if I have no idea what the labels say, I love the variety and just getting a sense of how they're ( Read more... )

Yay! Another food post ( Read more... )

I've been really inconsistent about making this at all a food blog, partially because it isn't one, BUT as you know, I will post something about cooking on rare occasion.

Tonight's creation was a Greek Lemon and Orzo Soup, for which I'd found a recipe ages and ages ago and never got around to trying ( Read more... )

I love it when I find good recipes that are simple, cheap, AND tasty. Today's was from my roommate's Arabesque cookbook, and it's lentils with pasta, caramelized onions, and parsley. SUPER easy. And all you need is 1/2 cup of lentils (I used brown ones), 4 oz. of tagliatelle (I used spaghetti instead), a large onion, a large handful of parsley, ( Read more... )

Today’s cooking endeavor was Cottage Cheese & Apple Pancakes, another recipe lifted from my roommate’s The New Moosewood Cookbook. When I was making them, they didn’t taste THAT amazing, and I was considering adding more apple next time, but then I put some plain yogurt on top, and the flavor was enhanced like WHOA. I cooked about half the batch ( Read more... )

I like how HAVING to cook for myself makes me find interesting recipes to try. Tonight’s was from a cookbook belonging to one of my roommates, Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant and is a recipe for Turkish Spinach and Lentil Soup. It’s actually vegan, but not in the “ew, I can tell this is substituting vegan-friendly food for the REAL ingredient” ( Read more... )

So, this was my second Thanksgiving away from home, but it was way better than last year. The days leading up to Thanksgiving (and on Thanksgiving itself), I ended up teaching a lot of lessons about American food and American holidays, so I was DEFINITELY in the mood for some celebrating. We actually made eggnog in one of my classes (recipe hereI ( Read more... )

Okay, it’s been nearly two weeks, so this one’s gonna be fairly long…again.

( On pumpkin festivals, Austrian culture, teaching so far, FOOD, knitting, weather, and TV )

Got it from Tellis after all. Hidden under the cut just in case anyone else wants to try it. Don't be afraid of the word "prawn" - just think "shrimp". He also thinks cilantro is called coriander. Silly Brit.

( Prawn curry recipe )

First, CURRY

This might be something like the prawn curry we made yesterday, but I'm not actually sure where Tellis got the recipe from. I do know that we had fresh diced tomatoes in ours, which made the sauce red then, but otherwise all the ingredients look right. (Though I guess I don't really know what creamed coconut IS - we used coconut ( Read more... )