One of my very favorite, and first cookbooks, is the Frog Commissary Cookbook from a now-defunct restaurant in Philadelphia. The spine is a mess, with many pages holding on for dear life. I wrote my whole name in the book, back before I was married, probably because I brought it along to college and did [...]
We needed to feed a crowd last night and with a busy day ahead of us, wanted to just plop stuff in the slow cooker and forget about it. The Husband had also just laid in a supply of dried Chile Pasao from The Shed in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and we were dying to [...]
Please give a hearty welcome to my daughter, who will be giving us her opinion of my menu plan each week. We will post her thoughts on Sundays, and she will highlight a dish or two she felt was particularly noteworthy (or not!). I will help her with the photos and layout, but the text [...]
Did you know I am participating in the Food Buzz Project Food Blog Challenge? Now would be a great time to vote. Tonight even. A couple times. No, that would be illegal. Once is enough. And then you can tell your friends to vote too. (note: It requires you to register, but I am really [...]
Chilaquiles, a traditional Mexican hangover cure, is a truly flexible dish easy to throw together for an impromptu brunch or dinner after a busy day. This recipe originally was clipped out of the San Francisco Chronicle in 2003, and every time I find a fresh bunch of chard in my Two Small Farms vegetable box, [...]
A certain someone (who shall remain nameless) had a birthday recently and requested ribs, macaroni salad and carrot slaw for dinner. I was only too happy to oblige, seeing as how I show love through food. Plus, the Macaroni salad will also serve as my entry in this month’s Grow Your Own blogging event, which [...]
I made this last week for our first TGIF block party, using the Butternut Squash that came in our weekly box from Two Small Farms, and it was a great success. Very easy, and the butternut squash made the hummus sweet and tasty. My kids enjoyed it as an after-school snack with pita chips and [...]
Green Garlic Soup Green Garlic Soup with Potatoes I made this easy soup last week for dinner, adding grocery-store roast chicken, although the soup as written stands on its own very well. The original recipe from Two Small Farms called for mashing and pureeing the soup, but I decided to leave things whole. And because [...]
Last month, we learned to cook pasta the Italian way, at a cooking party to benefit our school. Our hostesses, Lucia and Susanna, from La Bottega in Menlo Park, created a thoughtful menu highlighting three pasta dishes from the north, center and south of Italy – Linguine al Pesto, Bucatini Casio e Pepe, and Caserecce [...]
Long ago, when my daughter was born, a family from our play group brought over dinner. I remember the discussion with Becky – she wanted to know if we liked New Mexican chili sauce. She was planning to make chicken enchiladas for us, and little did she know it was a favorite of my husband. [...]
In our CSA box this week, we received a gorgeous head of cauliflower. My normal method of cooking this vegetable involves tossing the florets along with pieces of carrot, in olive oil in a baking dish. Then I add 4 chicken legs with thighs, sprinkle the whole dish with cumin, coriander and S&P, and roast [...]
