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Homemade Butter: Because You Can
Homemade Butter Now that you’ve mastered homemade yogurt, why not try making your own butter? I don’t usually refer you to other blogs for recipes, but there’s nothing I can add to Bryn’s awesome walkthrough of how to make homemade butter on Writes4Food.com. Do you read Bryn’s blog? You should. Here in the Bay Area, […] Read More
Fruity Chicken Salad
I’m not a big fan of mayo. It just seems too thick and too creamy for my liking. Naturally, it makes no sense that I’d be on a quest for a recipe for chicken salad that didn’t make me gag. I tried all kinds of mayo alternatives: Greek yogurt, sour cream and strange concoctions involving […] Read More
Overnight Steel Cut Oats (In a Mason Jar!)
No-Cook Steel Cut Oats I have an evening routine: put the Tiny Kitchen Assistant to bed, then settle in with my iPad to sift through the day’s Google Reader topics and do a quick search of Pinterest. I know that people obsess over Pinterest. I’m just not one of them. I like to do a […] Read More
I’m Obsessed with Pickled Cauliflower
Pickled Cauliflower Like Betty, I’m a huge fan of pickled things. I can’t really beat a salty/tangy/chilled accompaniment to a meal, particularly in the summertime. I’ve made some regular old pickled cauliflower before, and while it was fine, it didn’t really inspire me. And then I stumbled across the pickled cauliflower recipe from Perbacco. I’ve […] Read More
Beautiful Buttermilk Biscuits
Buttermilk Biscuits with Lard As with many posts, I feel the need to attribute my interest in cooking — and I sincerely mean having any interest at all — to Alton Brown. Had Alton not taught me many of the basics of cooking, we would be eating a lot of take out and fast food. My […] Read More
You Can Make Yogurt At Home
I have to tell you, I hadn’t given any thought to making yogurt at home. There are supermarkets on every corner, and did I really need yet another project? It appears that the answer was yes. We go through a lot of yogurt. The Tiny Kitchen Assistant eats it with fruit and honey. The adults […] Read More
Fish Tacos (Yes, I Actually Cooked Fish)
Maybe you haven’t noticed, but in the two years that I’ve been writing this blog, I’ve posted precisely one recipe that involves fish (and considering that it was for tuna salad, I’m not entirely sure that it even counts). This is a real recipe with real fish, the kind that didn’t come in a can. […] Read More
Cuban Black Beans with Beer
Frijoles Negros I’ve tried a lot of recipes for black beans, and while they’re all tasty, it turns out that this one — prepared on a whim — is the most flavorful that I’ve come across. It’s loosely based on the frijoles negros recipe from 3 Guys From Miami. Their cookbook is one of my […] Read More
Lasagna Roll-Ups
So there we were, on a Saturday night. It was already 5:00 and I’d given zero thought to dinner. So I polled the boys. The Tiny Kitchen Assistant requested pasta. My husband groaned. “It’s Saturday night,” he said. “I don’t want a quickie, throwaway dinner.” I was more than a little bit annoyed because maybe, […] Read More
Cacio e Pepe (Cheese and Pepper Pasta)
There was a time when I believed that Cooking (with a capital C) required two dozen ingredients, preferably ingredients that were difficult for mere mortals to find. Over time, I came to understand that simpler combinations of ingredients often merged to create more satisfying results. This pasta came about when the Tiny Kitchen Assistant requested, […] Read More
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