Despite my undying love for desserts, I am not a huge cookie fan. Cookie dough is sometimes as far as I get. I like cookies, but I don't looooove them. That is not to say I don't follow the debates on the merits of the New York Times Perfect Chocolate Cookie recipe or read the various comparisons to other "favorite" recipes. I just don't make them ( Read more... )

Now that I am back to work six days a week, it has serious reduced my cooking endeavors - mostly because I am HUNGRY when I get home! So, in lieu of posting what I have made, here is a non-exhaustive list in no particular order of some of the things I want to make once I have time:

• Pasta in Garlic Almond Sauce
  
• Lemon Poppyseed Waffles
  
• French Yogurt ( Read more... )

Mark Bittman of the New York Times is one of my favorite recipes sources. His blog, Bitten, his column The Minimalist, and his cookbook are all places I have procured recipes. And I finally figured out why ( 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... )

Of course I mean granola. Does it count against the granola or for me that I was wearing designer jeans when I made it?

Either way, it's shaping up to be really tasty. The granola is actually for a bread recipe! The Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day has "granola bread" which a friend from high school insisted that I try making. The bread calls ( Read more... )

Breakfast! How I love thee. This weekend, I promised Mr. Hubby a substantial breakfast. We have a special relationship with the morning meal. When we started dating, Hubby was working a lot of graveyard shifts (11pm-7am) at the hotel - I was still in college. Many times I got up at 6am and drove downtown before traffic got heavy to pick him up and ( Read more... )

Today did not have an auspicious start. Cramps are never a good sign. Coffee was in order; my first pot was a dud. Pot number two was better, but after I put the rest in my travel mug to bring along, I forgot it on the counter. Sigh. Did I mention that I was running late, too ( 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... )

Light Wheat Bread
From Peter Reinhart's Bread Baker's Apprentice10-15 minutes mixing; 3.5 hours fermentation, shaping, and proofing; 45-60 minutes baking ( Read more... )

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