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Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
Homemade pasta and marinara
Healthy & Delicious: Turkey Sausage and Arugula with Whole-Wheat Pasta
Kristen, I totally have a writer crush. I love every recipe that you post here. Thanks!
Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
I had a huge collection of children's cookbooks, so I can't really remember which one was first. Somehow, though, I always picked out the recipes that my parents disapproved of - either because they sounded terrible, or because they had hard-to-find or expensive ingredients (who puts such things in a kids cookbook?). I distinctly remember some sort of casserole with cheese and Spam, and my dad poking at the uncanned meat to see it move...
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Am I wrong about my definition of a cappuccino?
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Healthy & Delicious: Lemon Basil Pasta Salad
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Cakespy: Nanaimo Bars
Ok, I've never heard this name before. How do you pronounce it?
Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
Homemade pasta and marinara
Healthy & Delicious: Turkey Sausage and Arugula with Whole-Wheat Pasta
Kristen, I totally have a writer crush. I love every recipe that you post here. Thanks!
Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
I had a huge collection of children's cookbooks, so I can't really remember which one was first. Somehow, though, I always picked out the recipes that my parents disapproved of - either because they sounded terrible, or because they had hard-to-find or expensive ingredients (who puts such things in a kids cookbook?). I distinctly remember some sort of casserole with cheese and Spam, and my dad poking at the uncanned meat to see it move...
Cook the Book: 'Zingerman's Guide to Better Bacon'
Bacon makes everything it touches smoky and salty and porky and perfect.
Frozen Pea Pops for Kids
I think it's cute, and I'm also a fan of snacking on frozen peas, so I'm totally in.
Cook the Book: 'Bite-Size Desserts'
A cut-out sugar cookie
Cook the Book: 'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'
Olives, bread, and wine. Oh, to be alone for a meal...
Seriously Italian: Farfalle with Zucchini and Gorgonzola
Just made this. It's probably the cheese I picked (some generic gorgonzola crumbles, the only choice at my market), but I think it would have been PERFECT if I had used a whole pound of farfalle instead of just 1/2. It would have cut the strong cheese taste a bit, and my husband would have been happier with the diluted veggies.
In any case, it's definitely on my make-again list! Thanks!!!
Cook the Book: 'Real Cajun'
Learning to go out to the back yard and pick asparagus from the asparagus patch and strawberries from the strawberry patch with my mom.
Cook the Book: ''Wichcraft'
grilled combo of cheeses w/ green chile
Cook the Book: 'Urban Italian'
any non-traditional pizza. my current fave is red chile and chorizo.
Photo of the Day: Baby vs. Chinese Food
Too cute. It looks like the Chinese food is winning... but not for long...
Brand loyalty...which products?
De Cecco pasta
Ghiradelli chocolate chips
Brown Cow yogurt
Beeler's bacon
Boulder Canyon potato chips
Real Fritos
Coca-Cola
Not particularly loyal about most other things... of course, I'm probably just kidding myself...
Fancy Restaurants Should Implement an Early 'Baby Seating'
I agree with Zach, and think it's only to a restaurant's advantage to do this. Sure, I can take my baby out to a restaurant at 5:00 on my own, no special program required. It will be nearly empty, I can contain any chaos (or sweep up the crying child and get out of there as necessary), and it's a good learning experience; the earlier I start teaching my child how to behave at a restaurant, the better.
But do I do this? Very, very rarely. It's so much easier to eat at home or arrange take-out. (Since having a baby, I learned that almost any restaurant, except for the very highest tier, will happily let you pay for a meal packed directly into to-go boxes.) However, if a restaurant reminded me that I was welcome, at a convenient time for them, I might just be lured back into the outside world...
Sunday Brunch: The Best Silver Dollar Pancakes Ever
4 eggs, 2 cups sour cream, and only 1/4 cup flour? That can't be right... ?
Cook the Book: 'Kneadlessly Simple'
Challah. So much fun to shape.
Cook the Book: 'On the Line'
Grilled gently and put on a fish taco with a fresh corn tortilla and some good avocado and tomato
Lentil and Sausage Soup
This was great. I was worried that it wouldn't be filling enough for dinner, but the lentils added bulk... and as was mentioned in the intro, the sausage, cheese, and balsamic combined to make it nice and hearty. Adding it to my file.
Cook the Book: 'Almost Meatless'
Black bean and chorizo tortas, with avocado, feta, and tomatillo salsa. One link of chorizo for four sandwiches, but it adds such a great sausage-y flavor.
College Eats!
My low point was probably white rice made with boullion. My mom called and asked what I was eating and I told her "chicken and rice.". She asked about a vegetable and I didn't have the heart to give her more info.
Then there was the semester of farmers market apples and peanut butter sandwiches. But for the most part I ate pretty well in college... Really...
Serious Heat: Habanero Turkey Chili
I made this tonight. REALLY good... But 4-6 servings is underestimating by a lot. It's more like 10.
A Look at 'Semi-Homemade' Magazine
Wow. No doubt in my mind those are sponsored, and not "Sandra's preferences" - otherwise why not ID the brand of "cream of mushroom soup with garlic"? In that case, someone's not paying to play like they're supposed to.
Just wow.
Cook the Book: 'Osteria'
Another soup fan here - I'll take minestrone, please.
Cakespy: Nanaimo Bars
I was under the impression that instead of the custrad-y layer, Nanaimo bars had a layer of minty-ness in the center. Can any Northwesterners speak to that?
Cakespy: Nanaimo Bars
Thanks all. I first tasted these when I moved to Seattle, where you see them around sometimes because we're not too far from Nanaimo (relatively). It was like an epiphany. And to @rhinny 's point -- I moved to the West coast from NYC, and while I feel like I saw something similar once or twice, no way can the city claim ownership.
Cakespy: Nanaimo Bars
@jessie - it's pronounced nan-EYE-mo. It's a mid-sized town on Vancouver island, in British Columbia.
I'm so proud that BC has given the world a delicious palm-sized heart attack. It's ours, New York, so back off!
Cakespy: Nanaimo Bars
My mom has made nanaimo bars for what seems like forever... Her recipe came from the San Francisco Junior League cookbook (which my brother and I have dogeared used bookstore copies of as my mom couldn't bear to part with hers, even if her kids all love to cook).
I had no idea that the bar came from Canada! Thank you for the background on what is my favorite dessert and probably the most unhealthy thing that I can think of!
Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
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Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
My favorite is ribollita
Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
rigatoni is my favorite
Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
my favorite is lasagna :)
Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
It's a tie between pasta with lentils and minestrone
Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
I love spaghetti and sausage!
Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
Pasta with bacon, garlic, red pepper flakes in a light tomato sauce.
Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
pasta and ceci beans drizzled with olive oil.
Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
My cheap Italian meal is spaghetti and meatballs with garlic and parmesan cheese. garrettsambo@aol.com
Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
Spaghetti with cheap spaghetti sauce and parmesan cheese.
Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
Pasta with olive oil.
Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
Angel hair pasta with olive oil, garlic, salt and pepper would be my choice. Adding cheese would be optional.
Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
Pastina with butter and parmesan cheese :)
Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
The classic is my favorite Pasta with fresh Parmesan, olive oil, garlic, salt and pepper.
Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
I'm a polenta fan.
Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
My cheap fav is spaghetti and meatballs
Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
I like Spaghetti with garlic, butter and parmesan!
Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
Pasta with olive oil and parmesean.
Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
Sauce from homegrown tomatoes, with pasta, and vegetables from the garden!
Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
Minestrone soup - cheap and filling!
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Am I wrong about my definition of a cappuccino?
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Ok, I've never heard this name before. How do you pronounce it?