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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Taco salad
A recipe in four stages: Pretending to Be Healthy, BEEF, The Good Stuff, and The Purpose of This Whole Endeavor.
Pan-seared swai
Om Nom Nom is actually useful, instead of just being a venue to show off pictures of yummy food! I steal and modify Gloria’s recipe for pan-seared swai.
Crack noodles
Spaghetti noodles with sesame oil, peanut oil, sesame seeds, peanut butter, soy sauce, ginger… So called not because they crack (the verb) but because they are like crack (the noun).
Cheese & wine chicken
Cheese. Wine. Chicken. What more could you need? If the answer is “corn bread stuffing,” this recipe still has you covered.