Spinach! There was baby spinach at the store! Oh how I have missed spinach salads. Granted, spinach salad will forever be known as "poop salad" at Chez Splash, because the night before the recall was announced lo these few months ago, I'd made a huge spinach salad with one of the e coli infested brands. The next day the dwinn came home and said, "You ( Read more... )

I've been pretty good for the last few months at cooking a week at a time for lunches. I fell off the wagon for a few weeks due to various circumstances and enabled by lure of the greek salad at Oasis, but today I made curry with a commercial yellow curry powder, red potatos, diced tomatoes, chickpeas, green pepper and coconut milk over orzo pasta ( Read more... )

I think there's a certain amount of irony in the fact that as I was puttering in the kitchen before coming to write this post, I dropped a full bottle of steak sauce on my toe.

Anyway, tell me what to do with tofu! Got favorite recipes? Preparation tips? Dos and don'ts? Lay 'em on me.

So, not keen on tomato sauce to go with tonight's pasta, I decide to throw together some greek-ish dressing. Rummaging through the pantry I find the oil, the vinegar, lemon juice, and from the spice rack I grab the cilantro, dill, garlic salt, black pepper, and on a whim, the paprika and ginger. Merrily, I pour and swish and dash and pinch ( Read more... )

I hate writing.

I also hate my cats right at this moment.

However, I do not hate the yummy roasted aparagus and roasted brussel sprouts with dill and paprika that I made to go with dinner.

I think I am close to achieving regular status at Pancheros (where I get my regular burrito fix). The nice gentleman who runs the register now recognizes me and almost knows my order.

In less pleasant news, OMG SNOW. Okay, so it's barely visible and not sticking. Still. SNOW.

I ran across this the other day and had a little dorkgasm. I ( Read more... )

This went over really well at our work potluck, so I thought I'd share.

( white bean soup )

Oh, for another four days off ( Read more... )