Posted in dinner, pasta, tagged meatballs, spaghetti on December 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The 200th post!! Nothing more to say than watch the video below and be surprised! amazed! bedazzled!
Ingredients
Source: Me!
1 package spaghetti
1 jar tomato sauce
1 lb. ground beef
1/2 tsp. basil
1/2 tsp. oregano
dash of red pepper flakes
1/4 tsp. thyme
salt and pepper
1 egg, lightly beaten
1/2-3/4 cup bread crumbs
1/2 cup parmesan cheese
Directions
Preheat oven to 375 [...]
Posted in Vegetarian, dinner, tagged butternut squash, bread pudding on October 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Until this week I was unaware that bread pudding could be anything but a warm, amazing dessert that includes some variation of bananas, apples, currants, caramel and white or dark chocolate. But now there’s new territory to explore. As our first exploration into bread pudding possibilities, we found scrumptious results that eliminated any skepticism or [...]
Posted in Vegetarian, dinner, side dishes, tagged potstickers, vegetable on September 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some nights, dinner in our house is a bit of a mish-mosh of eating what we have in the house. Recently, we had grilled hot dogs (with the works — relish, mustard and ketchup) served in homemade challah with these potstickers on the side! Perhaps not the most usual combination of side dish and entree, [...]
Posted in Vegetarian, dinner, tagged lasagna, lighter veggie on August 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Don’t worry, “lighter” doesn’t mean it’s lame on taste. This lasagna has all the savory ingredients of regular lasagna, except instead of using ricotta cheese you use cottage cheese. It is delicious and will feed you (you=2-3 people) for three nights in a row. As the cookbook writes, it’s “so rich with vegetables, herbs and [...]
Posted in Vegetarian, dinner, pizza, tagged caramelized onion, leek, pizza, tomato pesto on August 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Even though pizza on the grill may be pretty much the best way to cook pizza at home, this is a close second with no grill necessary. And a grill can’t be necessary for recipes in our house because we don’t have one. So, here’s the deal: make some dough from your favorite recipe (and [...]
Posted in Vegetarian, dinner, side dishes, tarts, tagged galette, mushroom, stilton on July 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
So the galette wasn’t quite round or perfectly pleated, but the result was divine. If you like strong cheese and lots of varied mushrooms, start making the dough now. The dough takes the longest since it needs an hour in the freezer and an hour in the fridge. But don’t worry, you can use that [...]
Posted in dinner, tagged moussaka on July 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Moussaka is a fun word to say. It’s also a delicious dinner to eat. Imagine a Greek-style lasagna with eggplant instead of noodles and different spices. The eggplant may have been sliced a little too thin because when we ate it, it felt as if we were forking a delicious mush of food into our [...]
Posted in dinner, fish, tagged garlic, risotto, shrimp, spring on June 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Chef Gordon Ramsay says one of the the marks of a “really good chef” is being able to consistently produce good risotto night after night after night. Well, we don’t have risotto that often, but I can say that from the first time I made the dish (which was a complete disaster) and up to [...]
