Smitten Kitchenis another favorite blog of mine. Deb’s pictures are beautiful, as is the food. She posted about making homemade Oreo cookies. I highly encourage you to check out her site. Chocolate wafer cookies on baking sheet. As Cauli will be away on a business trip, I decided to have some girls over for some [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Savory Clafoutis and a Tomato Chickpea Salad
Posted in salad, vegetarian, tagged chickpea salad, clafoutis on September 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I started this blog with a plum clafoutis, and it has taken a savory clafoutis to remind me how far I still have to go. The savory clafoutis wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t recipe repertoire worthy. Part of my journey in discovering cooking is to build up consistently good recipes - recipes I’d be happy to [...]
German Peasant Soup
Posted in soup on September 17, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Friday night, Cauli and I had some friends over for soup, Scrabble, and beer. The soup is a reciepe I got from Lex Culinaria: German Peasant Soup. I made this for the first time last year, and it’s incredible. We’ve been freezing carmelized onions in batches, so I pulled some out from the freezer and [...]
Cauliflower Popcorn
Posted in side dish, vegetarian on September 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Cauliflower, the vegetable, has been a favorite of mine for awhile, just as Cauliflower the person has. In the past I’ve steamed cauliflower, mashed it up, and mixed with butter and salt – kind of like mashed potatoes. Nothing very interesting. Recently I bought a head of cauliflower and wanted to do something different with [...]
Weekend Brunch: Dutch Babies with Blackberry Sauce
Posted in brunch on September 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Another blog that I’ve repeatedly returned to for recipes is Orangette, especially for brunch ideas. Searching through her recipe archives this week, I came across dutch babies, an eggy, buttery, pancake-type breakfast dish. The recipe is pretty simple: melt butter in an oven safe skillet; mix eggs, flour, and half and half; bake for 25 [...]
Doctor Kracker
Posted in grocery on September 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I discovered Doctor Kracker at Whole Foods this week. I bought their seeded spelt cracker and it’s very good. I’ve been eating them with hummus, greek salad, and soup (Mexican Chicken Tortilla, or I should say Mexican Chicken Spelt Cracker). If you like thick, whole grain crackers studded with seeds, you should try them. Now [...]
Lamb-Stuffed Bell Peppers with Yogurt-Mint Sauce
Posted in lamb on September 10, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I made a modified version of this filling this weekend as a pizza topping, and it was fantastic! We had leftover ground lamb and I thought that stuffed bell peppers would be a healthy and interesting way to reuse the leftovers. I sauteed some onions in olive oil and added the lamb and cooked it [...]
A Call for Recipes: Cornbread
Posted in bread on September 7, 2007 | 3 Comments »
As summer slowly winds down, my mind turns to winter meals: hot soups, hearty stews, and chili. We recently got Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker Cookbook and I’m eager to explore it’s chapter on chili. The only problem is that I don’t have a good cornbread recipe. Actually, let’s be honest, I don’t have ANY [...]
Easy Coucous Lunch
Posted in lunch on September 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
*I wrote this post a while ago and have been holding on to it because I don’t have a picture. But I’m going to post anyway. After having beef for two meals in a row awhile back, my body felt like it needed a break. I decided to pre-make some couscous for the week, vaguely [...]
Weekday Breakfast
Posted in breakfast on September 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Our attempt at breakfast on the weekdays is still staggering along, and earlier this week I made scrambled eggs with sauteed shiitake mushrooms, a bit of ground sage, and some feta cheese. You can seen our breakfast scene in the picture. Yes, that’s a brain on Cauli’s coffee cup. A present from me. It says, [...]
