Slowly but surely I am ticking items off my "want to make" list of dishes!

Next up: Pasta in garlic-almond sauce from GourmetYum. Hubby had seconds and said, "Well, that is repeatable!" High praise. Leftovers were today's lunch. That was from half the recipe! The sauce is creamy, but with just a small amount of Parmesan cheese, it's not terrible ( Read more... )

Sorry, before I had a chance to post again, I got a dinner invitation. The Hubby was over helping his friend paint the nursery for their impending baby (3 weeks!). He texted me to see if I wanted him to come pick me up and have dinner/watch a movie with the painting crew. Oh, and what did I want for dinner that serves 4 hungry people: 1 pregnant, 2 ( Read more... )

While dinner was in the oven, I sat down at the computer to catch up on my blog roll and f-list. What do I find as my enchiladas are cooking? Erin is making enchilada sauce (among other things) and Bridget comments about the dilemma of food blogging and copyrights. As I don't consider myself a "real" blogger, I don't think about that so much, but ( Read more... )

So I have been getting good mileage out of the bread from the other day. Sunday we ate it with basic spaghetti and red sauce. Monday it accompanied dinner as garlic bread. This morning it was toast with breakfast!


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After spending the morning with the in-laws yesterday, Hubby had to work (1pm-11pm - boo!). Despite having a ridiculous sweet tooth, I was sugared out. We are talking veggie cravings. Since I didn't have to feed the veggie-hater, I got to have one of my favorite meals - a bowl of roasted veggies. The best part?


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Pad Thai from Mollie Katzen's Still Life With MenuServes 4-6, takes 45-60 minutes ( Read more... )

Sorry to be so boring, but I've spent more time cooking than much else. So here's a better photo of Tuesday's chili that isn't so "giant-pot-o-stuff"


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Since I have most days "off," not currently having a job and all, I have lots of time. When I don't have a lot of spare time, I allocate it fairly well. When I have gobs and gobs of it, I fritter it away and hardly accomplish anything. Grr. I'm working on it, though ( Read more... )

Today was lots of fun with angifrass and Jeanne. Quilting and cooking and yummy lunch! We went to the Midtown Global Market to have lunch where I ate at an African place and had "Veggie Delight," a coconut-milk-rich concoction of bell peppers, carrots, and spinach on curried rice. Mmmmm. They also have a small produce market there with organic fruit for 99 ( Read more... )

At the recommendation of my aunt, I tried a bread recipe from Rose Levy Beranbaum, author of several books including The Bread Bible and The Cake Bible. After reasonable success with whole wheat bread from King Arthur's site, I thought I would try something different. The wheat bread recipe I tried uses about half whole wheat, half bread flour and ( Read more... )