A truly beautiful breakfast
(from last weekend, when I felt inspired to make a Spanish tortilla but only had a single fingerling potato in the larder)
View Article0725 A Day of Improv Meals
Breakfast: sausages, an asiago bagel sliced into four pieces of toast, fried eggs for Shane and slices of tomato for me. Weekend Edition Sunday and the puzzle. Coffee. A late morning attempt at...
View Article0815 Pisto Manchego
Photo by zordor Without actually realizing it, I think I’ve been making pisto manchego all summer. A Spanish take on ratatouille, it is peasant food at its finest – putting together a bit of...
View Article0823 Watery Pork Goulash
I’m not exaggerating when I say that I planned my entire day around this meal. See, I’d planned on making this for dinner on Sunday night – a dish that requires 3 hours in the oven is just not...
View Article0913 Vegan Chili
I had a damned good cup of chili at Monk’s Kettle, and that, along with Tina’s enthusiasm for her new slow cooker, inspired me to make chili tonight. Well, last night and today, really, as I did all of...
View Article1007 Stewed
It’s on, baby! Dinner tonight was entirely made up, just me chopping things and sticking them in the enameled pot. I knew we had a bunch of veg, and I knew I wanted to make something that would cook...
View Article1031 Spicy Pepper Jelly
I’ve got to warn you on this one: this recipe will make your house smell weird. And, if you have a small kitchen and it’s a cold day, it’ll continue to smell weird for the rest of the day. It was all...
View Article25 Recipes #3: Carnitas
Or, as I referred to it, Chipotle at Home. Because seriously, it smelled like Chipotle up in our house. Before I get to the delicious parts of this meal,I want to start with a confession. For the...
View ArticleSpontaneous Stuffed Peppers
OK, this dish wasn’t that spontaneous as it was on this week’s menu – but it was spontaneous in the sense that I made it up as I went along. And oh my god, was it fantastic. So fantastic, in fact,...
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