Posts categorized: Savory (79)
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the maple leaf
Elements of sweet, sour, bitter, and herbs, come together for a perfect fall cocktail with notes of caramel and spice.
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Three Cheese Avalanche Pesto Pizza With Chicken, Bacon, and Cashews
When my sister and brother-in-law first moved to Athens, OH a few years ago for my sister’s new job, they were less than thrilled about the dining options in town. But while the food options were somewhat limited and the number of non-chain restaurants were even more limited, they managed to find some really great gems […]
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Apple Butternut Squash Gratin
I first made this apple butternut squash gratin for my sister’s baby shower last year and it was completely devoured. Not a crumb was left. I was a little sad because once I had had a taste of it, I was already dreaming about leftovers. I’ve been meaning to make it again every since, but […]
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Cuban Avocado, Pineapple, and Watercress Salad
April was an unusually rough month for me. Some personal things came up that were pretty hard to deal with, followed closely by the bombings at the Boston marathon, and then a shootout and a manhunt for the bombing suspect in my normally very quiet neighborhood. It was all a lot to take in and […]
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Buffalo Chicken Meatball Subs With Blue Cheese Dressing
Last week I shared my favorite vegetarian game day food, the roasted vegetable enchiladas. It’s packed with smokey, roasted veggies and is utterly delicious. But if you’re looking for something a little on the guilty pleasure side, well, you’ve come to the right place. I was vegetarian for a while, so I don’t think I […]
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Roasted Vegetable Enchiladas
Is football getting in the way of your New Year’s resolution to eat healthier? Well lament no more, because these enchiladas are absolutely deeeelicious and they are loaded with healthy veggies. Joseph first made these enchiladas for me a year and half ago after one of my knee surgeries and afterwards I only vaguely remembered […]
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Best of Pixelated Crumb 2012
Happy New Year, everyone! I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday. I for one have started out 2013 with a bang, becoming an auntie (again – I already have two amazing nieces on my husband’s side)! My sister gave birth to a beautiful 9 lb 4 oz baby named Lexi yesterday. It’s been a pretty great […]
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Spicy, Crunchy Dill Pickles
One of the best things about the end of summer is the abundance of fresh, ripe veggies at their prime. Even better is when you have friends trying desperately to unload their gardens’ bountiful yield. So far I’ve been enjoying zucchini, summer squash, and tomatoes from friends’ gardens. A coworker e-mailed me a few weeks ago and asked if I […]
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Southwestern Quinoa Salad
I have a new favorite quinoa recipe. This southwestern quinoa salad now stands right at the top of the list along with the spinach feta quinoa that I fell head over heals in love with earlier this year. This one’s got some of my favorite ingredients and flavors: black beans, fresh veggies, some southwestern chili […]
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Shrimp, Pea, and Rice Salad With Mango Chutney Vinaigrette
We’re getting to that time of year. Store windows flaunt fall fashions and home good stores have nothing but the dregs of patio furniture and are now hawking dorm room apparel and locker adornments (do kids really buy this stuff to decorate their lockers? When I was in school, I tried to spend as little time […]
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Wild Rice and Edamame Salad
This dish is so many things, and yet it is so simple. It’s the perfect side dish for summer picnics and barbecues, but it also easily works as a light, refreshing dinner or lunch. You could just as easily make it a day or two ahead as you could make it on a weeknight just […]
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Quinoa Shrimp Salad
Remember when I said I was going to be cooking a lot more quinoa? I wasn’t kidding. I’m obsessed. After making the quinoa salad with spinach, feta, and dill several times over the last few weeks, I figured maybe it was time for a new recipe. There are several recipes for quinoa that are more of a […]
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Quinoa Salad With Spinach, Feta, and Dill
Where have I been, you ask? No, I haven’t fallen off a cliff and, no, I haven’t given up on blogging. The last couple weeks have been a whirlwind of work, school, and play and I’m only just now catching my breath. I was hoping to make some lemon lime basil cookies to take on […]
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Deviled Eggs With Prosciutto
I have always loved deviled eggs. My first memory of eating them was at a wedding when I was a little girl. I don’t even remember whose wedding it was (a second cousin maybe?) but what I do remember are all the big beautiful shiny, poofy dresses (or so I thought at the time – […]
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Quick and Easy Pizza Sauce
Ironically, the same day Joseph and I went to the store to stock up on lots of garlic and olive oil so that we could start making our own garlic olive oil for our pizza instead of buying it, the store was out of the fresh tomato sauce we usually buy for pizza. Why not […]
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Roasted Garlic Olive Oil
Although not that many pizza recipes end up here on Pixelated Crumb, we do in fact make pizza quite often. Once a week in fact, usually Fridays. I can’t tell you how much I look forward to pizza night, and it’s not just the eating part. Pizza is one of my favorite things to make. […]
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Healthy Five Layer Dip With Baked Chili Tortilla Chips
If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that I should listen when my sister makes a food recommendation. So when she called me up nearly two weeks ago after the NFL conference championships to tell me about this fantastic layer dip, I was all ears. It seemed so perfect for the Super Bowl that I […]
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Pineapple and Cucumber Guacamole
The cookbook Truly Mexican has, count them, eight recipes for guacamole. Eight! If that’s not enough to get your blood pumping, then I don’t know what is. Pineapple seems to be on sale everywhere, and I’m a huge fan of fresh pineapple, so I was especially excited about the pineapple and cucumber guacamole.
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Tequila and Lime Turkey Chili
OK everyone, put on your game hat and pull out the tequila ’cause it’s game time! What could possibly be better fare for the Super Bowl than this tequila and lime turkey chili? It’s hearty, it’s meaty, it’s easy, it’s boozy, and it is Deeelicious with a capital D (and some extra “e”s apparently). I […]
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Lightened Up Broccoli Cheddar Soup
Ok, with that streak of six straight cookie/bar recipes interrupted only by a cocktail recipe still weighing on my conscience, I figured maybe it was about time for something, I don’t know, with a little less butter and sugar. First up was the wild mushroom, zucchini and goat cheese frittata, and now, broccoli cheddar soup. […]
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Wild Mushroom, Zucchini, and Goat Cheese Frittata (and a Giveaway!)
I woke up this morning with a mission: make a frittata. Even though I’ve eaten many a frittata ordered at a restaurant, I’ve never actually made one at home before. And what with all the cookies, holiday parties (you’d think those would be over by now, but my office just got around to our party […]
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Ginger-Garlic Tofu
Phew! I can’t believe it’s only been a week since Thanksgiving. I don’t know about you, but I’m still reveling in the memory of all that great food. Since we left all the leftovers (or what remained of them!) back in DC on Monday, Joseph and I have had to fend for ourselves again back […]
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Sweet Potato and Kale Pizza
Remember my sweet potato and kale craving and my accidental overabundance of kale? Well, when I saw this pizza on Two Peas and Their Pod, I knew I had to have it. I counted the days and minutes until I could have it and we finally got to make it last weekend. And again this […]
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Pasta With Sweet Potatoes, Tomatoes, Garlicky Kale, and Bacon
I woke up one morning a few weeks ago craving sweet potatoes and kale. It just felt like the perfect fall veggie combo and even though it may seem like all I eat around here in the fall are pumpkiny baked goods, I do in fact still eat vegetables (well, vegetables that aren’t baked up […]
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Cornbread Salad With Black Beans, Red Bell Peppers, and Cherry Tomatoes
As much as I love fall, I’ve been happy that it has still been fairly warm in Boston. Most importantly, the farmers’ market still has tomatoes and honestly, that’s all I need to fend off fears of snow and ice. I love fall and living in New England, it doesn’t really get any better. The […]
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Lightened Up Corn Chowder
This lightened up corn chowder is not only healthier, but tastier with a more prominent corn flavor that's rounded out with bacon and fresh thyme and basil.
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Bifana – Sliced Pork Tenderloin With Caramelized Onions and Garlic Aioli on Focaccia
The coupon for $15 off at Ceia Kitchen and Bar in Newburyport, MA that I got at the Techmunch conference a few weeks ago was all the motivation we needed to make a day trip. Joseph and I headed to Newburyport for my first real excursion since knee surgery and I hobbled around town moving […]
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Spinach and Cheese Strata
I’ve never been much of a breakfast person, but boy do I love brunch. Growing up, breakfast was always this big question mark of what I was going to throw down my gullet before running to catch the bus to school. I seriously detested milk which meant that cereal was out of the question (so soggy, so […]
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Hiyayakko (Japanese Cold Tofu)
Well, it’s August now and it’s gonna be a hot one. I grew up in Washington, D.C., a city where all the locals know enough to flee for as much of August as they can to avoid the sickeningly hot, sticky days (and nights). Did you know that D.C. was actually built on a swamp? […]
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Shrimp Burgers With Homemade Roasted Garlic-Orange Aioli
This is another one of those recipes that I passed on to Joseph and helpfully suggested that he could make it for me if he wanted. Actually, I found this recipe through the same Food 52 e-mail as those killer ribs, so I’m clearly onto something, because these shrimp burgers were pretty amazing too. While […]
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Seriously Delicious Ribs
As I said last time, since my knee surgery I’ve been pulling my weight around the house by suggesting to Joseph what he can make for me. And when I opened my weekly e-mail from Food52 last weekend, I immediately clicked on their menu suggestions for 4th of July and stopped scrolling when I got to […]
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Caramelized Onion Jam With Dark Rum
In addition to the two cakes I made for the bridal shower, I also made an onion jam. Actually, no, Joseph made it and I stood around and tried to be useful. When I did step in to help, my reward was a splatter of oil and butter jumping straight from the pan to my […]
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Chinese Chicken Salad
Meet my new favorite salad: the Chinese chicken salad from Ellie Krieger’s The Food You Crave. It’s a stunning salad bursting with vibrant purple, green, and orange and it’s got all the right textures going on with juicy mandarin oranges, crispy napa and red cabbage, and crunchy water chestnuts. The tangy soy ginger Chinese/Pan-Asian inspired dressing […]
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oven baked garlic fries with garlic aioli
Whew, this has been one crazy long weekend! When we weren’t busy seeing friends and family, running errands (including multiple visits to grocery and liquor stores), we were in the kitchen cooking. Trust me, you’ve got lots to look forward to in the coming days! Joseph e-mailed me at work earlier last week telling me […]
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Bourbon Rosemary Pecans
Heading to a Memorial Day barbecue and want to bring your hosts something to go with the beer? And maybe you have some bourbon left over from your Kentucky Derby party?These salty sweet nuts are a delicious treat that they will love and you can throw them together pretty quickly. I first made rosemary pecans a few weeks ago […]
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Adobo Baby Back Ribs
It’s somewhat ironic that my husband, who is Filipino, loves to cook so much – especially Asian food – and yet he never cooks Filipino food! My mother-in-law makes amazing Filipino food, including pancit, chicken and pork adobo, sinigang, and my absolute favorite, lumpia. Joseph says that he doesn’t cook Filipino food because his mom’s […]
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Glazed Vermont Ham With Pineapple Mustard Sauce
True to form, I’ve told you about dessert before dinner. What can I say, I was really excited about that key lime coconut cake! But the dinner definitely held up to the dessert that followed. We didn’t really have any plans for Easter dinner, but wanted something that was easy and celebrated spring. We had planned […]
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Unagi-Don (Unagi Sushi Rice Bowl)
If you had told me 15 years ago that one of my absolute favorite foods was eel, I would have laughed and told you you were out of your mind. I mean, who eats eel? That’s just craziness. today, freshwater eel, or unagi, is absolutely one of my favorite things. When we go out for […]
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Springtime Sampler
We finally had some decent weather this past weekend and I was absolutely desperate to get out of the house. We’d never been to New Bedford, a town hailed for being one of the most important whaling ports in the 19th Century, so we made the one hour drive down from Boston and checked out […]
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Oven Fried Chicken
When we were little, my sister received this kid’s cookbook that we just loved. There are actually only three recipes I remember making from it, but we made them over and over again. There was the yummy, chunky apple sauce, these awesome cakes that you put in an ice cream cone and that looked like […]
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Penne With Roasted Tomatoes, Garlic, and White Beans
Have you ever gone to dinner at someone’s house and before they serve you the food they say, “Uh, I hope you like garlic,” with just the slightest touch of hesitation? Like garlic? Are you kidding? I can’t get enough! Now, to be fair, I have on occasion turned down an everything bagel because I […]
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Prosciutto, Mozzarella, Tomato, and Spinach Panini
I don’t know about you, but I am so incredibly ready for spring. Winter in Boston was brutal with 38 inches of snow in January alone. The snow has finally (mostly) melted and they’re talking about temps in the 50s this weekend. I’d like to say that I’ll be out enjoying the weather, but I’m […]
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Prosciutto and Sweet Potato Risotto
I get so carried away sometimes with finding new recipes and cooking that I forget to actually blog about the things I cook! Case in point, I was on the phone with my sister yesterday and she said that as soon as I’m back on my feet she’d love to see a risotto recipe on […]
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Fried Rice With Ham and Pineapple
Joseph and I have a handful of recipes that we always keep readily available for the weeks when we don’t have any groceries and don’t have time to sit down and actually plan before going to the store. They’re all mostly healthy, quick, easy, and good. We’ve had this fried rice recipe in our arsenal […]
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Seared Duck With Duck Fat, Pan-roasted Fingerling Potatoes, Haricots Verts, and Balsamic Cherry Reduction
Growing up in my family, the idea of eating duck was much like the idea of eating your pet. It’s not that we had ducks, but they were almost like a family mascot. My dad did an amazing Donald Duck impersonation which my sister and I requested about five times a day. As a reward, […]
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Barbecue Chicken Pizza
I love condiments. I slather a ton of mustard on my burgers, I like lots of ketchup with my fries, but barbecue sauce has always been my favorite. When we were kids and my parents took us out for dinner, we almost always ordered chicken tenders. It worked out perfectly because they came with a […]
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Guacamole
It seems to me that almost every conversation about guacamole has at least one or two people claim that they make the best guacamole ever. I mean, the thing about guacamole is that it is always pretty darn delicious. But, not to toot my own horn or anything, I’ve had several people try my guacamole […]
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Spicy Sweet Potato “Fries”
Who doesn’t love a good sweet potato fry? I know that given the choice at a restaurant, I will never pick regular ol’ fries over sweet potatoes fries. They’re just so irresistible! They’re sweet, salty, and oh so addictive. This recipe takes sweet potato fries to the next level. Now, I have to warn you, […]
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Joseph’s Turkey Burger du Jour
I was vegetarian for several years and ate enough veggie burgers to keep Gardenburger and Boca in business. Then, when I was eating poultry again, I went on a business trip to Atlanta and a coworker ordered a turkey burger. I was sort of shocked by the idea (turkey??), but since after about 10 years […]
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Chicken Piccata With Lemon, Capers and Artichoke Hearts
This is another one of those recipes that I fell in love with before I had even tried it, based solely on the ingredients. It’s got wine and lemon (two of my favorite things) and they’re accented by briny capers and artichoke hearts. The chicken gets pounded, making it extra tender and juicy. In fact, […]
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Chipotle Chilaquiles
We concluded our week of Rick Bayless recipes with the recipe that first introduced us to the genius of Rick Bayless: chipotle chilaquiles. I didn’t even know what chilaquiles were until we went to dinner with our friends, Christina and Adam, about a year ago. They made served us this spectacular green stuff unlike anything […]
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Creamy Corn Soup With ham and Roasted Poblanos
The next recipe in the lineup from our week-long celebration of Rick Bayless is a wonderful, creamy corn soup. In the recipe, Bayless says that you can use either chicken or ham and ham just seemed like an obvious choice to me. Of course chicken would work wonderfully, but I really liked the idea of […]
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Smoky Chipotle Salsa With Pan-Roasted Tomatillos
I LOVE this salsa. It’s amazing how 4 little ingredients make something so good. The chipotle chiles give it a smokiness, the tomatillo lends it some tang, and then the roasted garlic…well, it’s roasted garlic!! Fantastic. I poured it all over my red chile chicken and rice with black beans, it would be great over eggs, […]
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Red Chile Chicken and Rice With Black Beans
For as long as I can remember, black beans and rice has been one of my favorite dishes. I went to this awesome bilingual daycare in DC when I was really little and every Friday we got black beans and rice. I lived for those black beans and rice…. When I was 19, I spent […]
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Chipotle Shrimp
This is a Rick Bayless week for us. On Sunday we sat down to figure out what we wanted to make for the week before heading to the grocery and we surrounded ourselves with a bunch of cookbooks. Somehow every single recipe we decided on ended up being from Bayless. I guess because it’s been […]
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Spicy Garlicky Cashew Chicken and Chilled Sesame Spinach
There are some recipes that you know you’re going to love just by a quick glance at the ingredients. This is one of those recipes. Cashews, with their rich, creamy, salty nuttiness are one of my favorite nuts, I love cilantro and I love, love, love garlic. And if you ask me, almost any dish […]
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Curried Lentil Soup
Ok, I promised you something healthy after all those cookies and here it is. Believe me, it’s worth the wait. I found out about this recipe from my friend, Anne, who is an incredible cook. After every amazing meal that she cooks everyone oohs and aahs over her creations and she always, always responds by […]
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Healthy Mac and Cheese (aka Mac ‘n Squash)
Running out of Thanksgiving leftovers? Trying to squeeze in some healthy food to make up for all that pie and stuffing? Well, look no further than this lightened up version of mac n’ cheese. I should tell you up front that this mac n’ cheese is not going to be the same as the ooey […]
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day(s) of feasting
Thanksgiving morning began with individual monkey breads – monkey bread that my mother-in-law made in muffin tins so we each had our own piece of gooey, warm, sticky monkey bread to pull apart and devour. It was the beginning of a magnificent day of feasting. Thanksgiving dinner included a ridiculously succulent turkey; stuffing; a butternut […]
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Chicken a la Veracruzana
Joseph is on this great kick where he’s trying all these slow cooker recipes from Rick Bayless’ Mexican Everyday. It’s wonderful. Slow cookers are great because you just throw stuff in the slow cooker and then several hours later you open it up and there’s your meal, hot and succulent, just waiting to be ladled […]
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Pasta With Butternut Squash, Sage, and Pine Nuts
Ok, so clearly we’re really into fall foods. We just can’t stop buying butternut squash. One Monday night when we had a butternut squash lying around waiting to be eaten, I saw this recipe on the kitchn and thought, perfect! A quick Monday night dinner and we have all the ingredients! The problem was that […]
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butternut squash and sage soup with sage breadcrumbs
Ok, so here’s another butternut squash soup that you have to try. I think Joseph and I actually liked this one better than the last one. The sage is a really nice flavor and the breadcrumbs give it a little texture and a lot of richness. Possibly too much richness. I think I won’t add […]
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Spicy Cauliflower Soup
Like I’ve said before, I think cauliflower gets a bad rap but it can be quite deliscious when prepared well. I was excited to see a cauliflower soup recipe in Alice Water’s The Art of Simple Food because soup weather is in full swing and how can you go wrong with Alice? For the first […]
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Baked Chicken Meatballs and Spaghetti
It’s amazing to me how quickly fall came. It’s like it was 90 degrees one day, and 50 the next. I like fall a lot, but I hate how short it is. But when it cooled off, I was thinking about food (as I very often do, especially when I’m consoling myself over the weather) […]
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Thai Basil Chicken
My boss got me a subscription to Cook’s Illustrated last Christmas and I love it. The first recipe that we made from the magazine was this Thai basil chicken dish and we’ve made it many, many times since then. It’s juicy, it’s spicy, it’s garlicy, and it has Thai basil. I first fell in love […]
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Butternut Squash Soup
Ok, so I know how long it’s been since my last post. Don’t worry, I have been eating, I’ve just been out of town a lot (including an amazing food and wine festival in Disney World!) and have been really busy. But I do have some great things to share with you (just wait for […]
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Quick and Easy Cornbread
Growing up I loved corn bread, but rarely actually got the good stuff. You see my mom, as wonderful as she is, is convinced that the best corn bread is just cornmeal mixed with water. She may have put some other stuff in there, but that’s pretty much what it tasted like. Her early years […]
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Turkey and Bean Chili
I didn’t watch much football growing up, but for several years close family friends would come over to watch the Superbowl with us. My mom would make a huge pot of chili, a salad, and brownies ahead of time and she and Amy, the mom of our friends, would go out to get dinner and […]
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Maple-Mustard Pork Tenderloin With Caramelized Apples
As long as I’ve known my sister (i.e. my whole life), she’s been replete with ideas both good and bad. For example, when we were kids she liked to play “chef” and take random ingredients in the small kitchen at our after school program and “cook” (or rather, mix) them and then serve them to […]
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fresh arugula and tomato fettuccine
I am so excited to tell you about this dish. My sister and brother-in-law gave us a pasta roller attachment for our KitchenAid mixer and I’ve been itching to try it. But we’ve been going out of town nearly every weekend and it didn’t seem wise to try to tackle it for the first time […]
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Ginger-Miso Halibut in Shiitake and Edamame Broth With Soba Noodles
While we were in DC celebrating my Dad’s, Joseph’s and my birthdays, my mom wanted to cook a meal together (well, my dad’s very helpful participation was on the cleaning up side of things). Joseph found a striped bass recipe on epicurious.com that looked pretty good. My mom had some beautiful halibut already, so we […]
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Zucchini Pasta With Almonds
I mentioned before that my sister had sent me a zucchini pasta recipe super similar to a Smitten Kitchen recipe that I was already planning on making. My sister raved about this recipe from Cooking Light, so I had to try it and see how it compared. The recipes both share all the same key […]
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Roasted Pork Loin With Parsley-Shallot Sauce
Want a quick, relatively healthy, but really nice meal? Look no further than Ellie Krieger’s roasted pork loin with parsley-shallot sauce. Joseph cooked the pork while I prepared the roasted cauliflower (yes, I know I got the easy part). Joseph used Thomas Keller’s technique of searing the pork before putting it in the oven to […]
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roasted cauliflower
I love roasted veggies. Already delicious vegetables get a sweetened lift and and tender bite in a hot, hot oven. If you’re not a huge cauliflower fan, you’ve got to try them roasted. The olive oil, salt, and pepper bring out of the best of cauliflower and just a pinch of nutmeg lends the slightest […]
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zucchini lemon pasta
There are a few food blogs that I check pretty regularly, but hands down my favorite is Smitten Kitchen. When I saw this recipe of hers there was no question about whether I was going to make it, it was when. You see, I love any quick simple pasta that involves lemon. Oh, and […]
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Thomas Keller’s Caramelized sea Scallops
Joseph insisted that instead of going out for his birthday, he wanted to make a nice meal at home and break open a bottle of wine that we brought back from our honeymoon in Napa last year. One of the restaurants that we went to on our honeymoon was Thomas Keller’s Ad Hoc (French Laundry […]
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Shrimp Tacos With Tomato, Radish, and Habañero
Ok, it’s been a while since I’ve shared a recipe and here I am sharing another Rick Bayless recipe, also from Mexican Everyday. This is the perfect summer meal — nice and light, crisp, and refreshing. These tacos do pack a bit of heat from the habeñero, which is considerably spicier than jalepeños, but nothing […]
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Fettuccine with Creamy Red Pepper-Feta Sauce
Joseph and I love to have the ingredients around for this pasta from Ellie Krieger because it’s fast, easy, relatively healthy, and the ingredients keep for a little while so you don’t need to make it right away. In fact, we got the ingredients before our trip to Europe a few weeks ago and didn’t […]
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Chicken in Escabeche of Caramelized Onions, Carrots, and Jalapeños
My main contribution for this dish was eating it. Yes, that’s right, Joseph did all the work and I came along, snapped some photos, ate it up, and now I’m writing it up here like I have some ownership of it. That’s what marriage is for, right? The recipe comes from Rick Bayless’ Mexican Everyday. […]
