Nothing is quite as good as Homemade Bread

I sincerely doubt there is anything quite as good as Homemade Bread.  The smell, the taste, the chew…*sigh* For a wedding gift my sweet Aunt L gave us the Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day book.  It looks beautiful … Continue reading

Smoked Gouda Lasagna with Eggplants and Zucchini

Over the weekend Lidia Bastianich was on PBS making an Eggplant and Zucchini lasagna that she fed her mom.  I’ve been thinking about that lasagna, like, non-stop since then.  Here’s the thing though – C’s been having some heartburn lately, … Continue reading

Green Beans can substitute for Lentils, right?

So last night I decided to make Martha Stewart’s Mustard-Glazed Salmon with Lentils (Everyday Food, Nov. 2012, p.74). Except, I didn’t have canned lentils or grainy mustard. I figured Dijon is a spicy mustard, so I’ll use that.  Oh, and … Continue reading

*sigh* I tried to make Pad Thai.

Two days ago I attempted Pad Thai. I overcooked the noodles, used too much sauce and – in an attempt to appease my non-Bok-Choy-loving husband – I roasted the Bok Choy.  I roasted it because roasting transforms vegetables from mundane … Continue reading

Awesome Sandwich. AWESOME.

For lunch today I made/invented a new awesome sandwich. We had some leftover Baguette from the BanhMi sandwiches I made for lunch yesterday. **C picked his pate off his sandwich, piling it on my plate with a yucky look on … Continue reading

Tonight: Glazed Meatloaf and Accordion Potatoes with Chives and Sage Butter; Last Night: Using the Garlic Confit

LAST NIGHT: I hurt my knee so C took over dinner responsibilities last night. He made a box of rigatoni.  While it was cooking he scooped out a few cloves of the sweet garlic from the confit’d jar, and added … Continue reading

I started out making pasta….

I was going to make pasta for dinner tonight.  With a parmesan cream sauce.  Using some of the garlic confit I made this morning. Then I thought, Um, since I used the recipe for the Confit from Michael Psilakis’ Cookbook , shouldn’t I actually … Continue reading

A Thank You Gift, Garlic Confit, and some Lunch

I needed to make a thank you gift today.  I didn’t feel like baking. CHOCOLATE DIPPED MARSHMALLOWS TO THE RESCUE!!! These are super-duper easy and pretty fast, if you use the microwave and have everything already on hand.  I grabbed … Continue reading

Grown Up Grilled Cheese for lunch

Now, I’m not one of those people that die – DIE, I tell you! – for grilled cheese sandwiches.  They’re nice, but they’re not my thing. C, E, and the babies LURV them though. So I’m over ruled.  I have learned … Continue reading

Making Fish for Dinner (Was gonna be Tofu, but C groaned)

I’m making Tilapia for dinner. I’d forgotten I’d pulled it out of the freezer yesterday. C asked what’s for dinner tonight & when I told him I was making Banh Mi (Vietnamese sandwiches made with crispy layers of tofu, crunchy … Continue reading