Posts under ‘Recipes’

I decided this Thanksgiving will not be traditional. Why serve turkey, for example, when I live just a block or so from excellent Peking duck? Why serve green bean casserole when I can serve garlicky Romano beans with rosemary, every ingredient of which will be grown or produced within 100 miles of here? Why serve [...]

In recent years, I’ve become less and less of a dessert eater. I’m caught up by the savory far more than the sweet, and would rather cap off dinner with a really good glass of port or single malt scotch than a slice of chocolate torte. A bite here, a bite there, that’s really all [...]

This is the story of a friend named Sam, and how she inspired me to try something new. See, back in September, Sam pulled off an all-out (and ultimately v. successful) blitz of fundraising for Race for the Cure, setting herself what sounded like an impossible goal and then going after it with every resource [...]

Since I am a girl who takes being called a “potato eater” as a compliment, it should come as no surprise to anyone that I love gnocchi. I mean, really. Does it get any better than pillowy potato dumplings swathed in sauce?
Rarely, my friends. The answer is, rarely.
But in all my life, I can only [...]

I would really rather not be writing this post.
I would really rather not have eaten this particular meal at this particular time.
I would prefer to have stumbled across it, like so many other recipes posted by food bloggers I know and enjoy, and would prefer to have just made it whenever, unnoticed. I would prefer [...]

Ever since I arrived in California, I’ve been over-buying produce. That’s not to say that I’m wasting it—it’s quite possible that I’m eating a closer-to-vegetarian diet than I have ever eaten in my life—but it is requiring me to come up with interesting ways to use what I’ve got in fairly short order so I [...]

Not long ago, Kalyn of Kalyn’s Kitchen posted a fabulous-looking recipe for chard stems. It had never occurred to me to cook chard stems separately from the rest of the chard—while I realize they’re tougher than the leaves and require a slightly longer cooking time, I’ve always circumvented that issue by just cooking them first, [...]

No matter where I live, no matter where I go, I will always hold the standard high for Iowa sweet corn. It’s hands-down fabulous, whether in a dish or on its own, and I plan to eat at least a few corn-only meals this summer, just in honor of its sheer amazingness. I don’t know [...]

I consider the day the Oscars ceremony airs to be something of a national holiday. I love movies, but for years, have harbored a not-so-secret obsession: I must see all the Best Picture nominees before the award show, and I keep a list from the second the nominations press conference ends to track how many [...]

More snow fell on Iowa City today, and the weather put me in a mood to cook, and to think about cooking. Luckily, today is also the last day to be part of the 2007 Foodbloggers’ Recipe Collection (which is why I’m going back on all that big talk about how I was done blogging [...]