Tag: tomatoes
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Need an Easy Dinner Next Monday?
Food-related blog news.Dear Reader, I am sharing a bit of exciting news — as of today, my good friend Sarah Yee and I are starting a little food business! As you all know, we both love to cook. Now, we’ll be channeling this passion and skills into cooking for our community through Josephine. What’s Josephine? Josephine is…
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One More Way to Keep
Your Home Cool in the Summer:
Quinoa, Cucumber, Tomato SaladDouble-feature bonus posts this week! My offering to you, Dear Reader, for being a faithful audience. Enjoy! A few years ago, I found myself buying one of those cup-salads from Whole Foods a lot in the summer. I liked it so much I figured I should start making it, so I can (a)get it without…
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Upo trials – Part 3!
Ginisang UpoSo we wrassled another upo into submission.. K and I took a kind of lame bbq class a while ago, but they did provide us with a useful tip of how to cut things:
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Beat the Heat: Part Zillion!
Zucchini Basil SaladFresh back from a cross-country road trip through 4 national parks, three rolls of campfire-cooked Pillsbury products, and too many kinds of 80+-degree weather, I give you… Cold Zucchini Basil Salad A variation from simply real health I googled after a random Instagram find. Ingredients: 1 large heirloom tomato, sliced into bite-sized pieces 3-4 zucchini total (prefer a…
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Chef Crusoe the Dachshund on Bruschetta
File this one under: Entertaining Videos for Your Monday Commute I even timed it so the East Coasters might get it in time.. While I have a special place in my heart for Martin Yan’s video from Saveur on how to make Cong You Bing (Scallion Pancakes), the latest food video I am captivated by…
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“Chardegg Cakes” Revisited
I’ve made several different sets of this since the first time I shared this recipe (click here for the first post on it), and both settled on a preferred base of ingredients, and eaten enough of them to stop making them for a while (what, about a month of eating them every weekday is not…
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Sunday Prep Day:
Chardegg Cakes for Breakf*stDear Readers, I hope you enjoyed the guest blogs! Many thanks to both Alex and Kris for their generous contributions. In honor of the J_______ brothers’ penchant for delicious chicken dinners, check out HuffPo’s “8 Chicken Dinners that are Anything But Boring,” Relatedly, I may share a lettuce wrap combo in a later blog too.…
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Panzanella: no-cook recipe #3 for the summer heat
So I was looking for a swift way to use all the tomato loot from my garden in the warm summer days, while still getting the individual flavors of them.. Cribbed and modified from Ina Garten’s Panzanella recipe from Food network. Ingredients 3 tablespoons good olive oil 1 small French bread or boule, cut into…
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Heat Wave, Part II:
Gazpacho!Mark Bitterman‘s Gazpacho recipe and some tips from my friend Katherine got me to try making gazpacho about a year ago, and tonight’s continued hot humid weather in the Northwest called for a revisit of cooking without heating elements. Unfortunately, I failed at that last bit, since I like my onions and garlic sautéed instead…
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Cauliflower & Sausage Casserole
The Kitchn’s Cauliflower Sausage Casserole caught my eye since it did not for once call for loads of cheese, per your traditional Midwestern casserole (er, ‘hot dish’) style. While loads of cheese is delicious, it’s arguably not the healthiest for you, and definitely not the best for lactose-intolerant yours truly. The Kitchn’s version used chicken…