This is a take on a chilaquiles recipe I found while browsing Epicurious, but with cornbread replacing deep-fried corn tortillas. Chilaquiles is essentially “Mexican lasagna” in that it is a baked casserole, made by alternating layers of starch, meat, cheese, and other tasty things. It was experimental and—while delicious—the recipe we used needs tweaking, so [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2009’
Thaime for dinner!
There was a Thai food truck back at CMU which I frequented for lunch, and because vegetarian selections were $1 cheaper, I usually ended up getting the strangely delicious Thai basil eggplant. I’ve never been a huge Eggplant Fan, but Thai cooking can make anything taste exciting and new! Much of this magic is due [...]
apple pie
Way back for the Fourth of July, I was charged with making apple pies for our “cookout” (indoors, with air conditioning). This was also when I learned that the Bronx is apparently secretly obsessed with pies?
I used a recipe recommended by these fine people, Grandma Opel’s apple pie. It’s somewhat nontraditional in that you make [...]
Some Indian Food I Made The Other Day
I’ve been saying I’d write something in this newfangled internets machine, so here we go. All of these recipes together will serve 5-6.
Tamarind-Chile Chicken with Mint
approx. 1 lb chicken of some variety, cut into bite size pieces
1 inch ginger, peeled and minced
sliced green chiles to taste (crushed red pepper is ok too, again to taste)
2 [...]
Bavarian-Californian Fusion Cuisine
Congratulations on our 100th post! (Not this one, the last one.) Woooo~ okay.
I consider pork to be the most mysterious of all the meats. An extremely reputable online encyclopedia has this to say:
Meat refers to animal tissue, especially that which is consumed as food. There are various kinds of meat, ranging from white meat such [...]
Chicken Lettuce Wraps
It’s hard to follow up Monsieur Georges’ decadent posts, but I’ll try!
Chicken lettuce wraps are one of those dishes which I can never remember the origin of – are they really anywhere close to “authentic” asian food, or is PF Chang’s overpriced asian fusion menu responsible for them? A quick Google search yielded no concrete [...]
Cav
I mentioned in my “randomly getting to meet Nobuo Uematsu for free” post that I tasty food beforehand. I went with my friends Chris and Steve, who were visiting from Santa Cruz to see some dessicated corpse in a museum or something. Here is a picture of them eating brunch the next day and looking [...]
And a cookie recipe, before I forget it
I like bananas, but ours had gone bad. I like chocolate, and it’s even better with bananas! Also I like oatmeal cookies, but have never been a huge fan of raisins. The obvious solution: Chocolate chip-banana-oatmeal cookies. Recipes exist on the internet already, and this is the one I employed.
Chocolate chip-banana-oatmeal cookies
1 1/2 c all-purpose [...]
Risotto… it takes forever, but it is delicious!
The last few items in our weekly CSA box were cherry tomatoes, canteloupe, and some summer squash. Summer squashes are the ones that you can eat basically fresh, like zucchini and crookneck squash. All you need to do is cut ‘em up, add salt, and maybe toss them in a pan with olive oil for [...]
Personally, I find eggplants kind of unsettling…
Our first CSA box had eggplants in them (also peaches, summer squash, and lots of cherry tomatoes). They were weird and stripey, like this one except with more white. So this is what we made!
Eggplant Lasagna
2 medium eggplants, sliced lengthwise into 1/4 inch thick slices
olive oil, salt, pepper
6 uncooked lasagna noodles (or enough for 2 [...]