Dinner these days is almost always a joint effort between Larry and I – between long days at work for him, and long days in culinary school for me, it’s a rare treat to have a real dinner at home. Larry chose this guacamole recipe. It’s a bit smokey from the bacon and roasted tomatillos [...]
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We went simple again for the rest of the crab we got from Siren. We already had baguette toasts made, so we did these as mini-sandwiches instead of big ones. It’s very easy – a minimal salad made of crab, peppers, fennel fronds and oil shows off the fresh, clean tasting crab. I love the [...]
We got some fabulous fresh dungeness crab from Siren SeaSA this week – already picked and packaged up, ready to use. It’s my favorite kind of crab, that’s for sure. We decided we had enough crab to make a couple of things. Sometimes we’ll just snack on stuff that’s in the kitchen instead of making [...]
If you like Cheese-Its (and who doesn’t?), you’ll love these crackers. I was hesitant to make them – I somehow have it in my head that crackers are a major effort for little reward. But they’re so simple, and the dough is a dream to work with, I can’t see any reason not to make [...]
This was one of the recipes I rejected for Cheryl‘s book signing. Not because it sounded bad or is complicated to make – but she probably would have thought I was an overzealous weirdo for making so much food. I finally got to make it, though – Emma and Scott were over for a Friday [...]
We’re big fans of the hard-boiled egg in this house. I mostly eat them over the sink, with liberal doses of Kosher salt. Larry gets more creative and will incorporate them into a meal somehow. He’s been obsessed with the beet-pickled deviled eggs we had at Grüner when we were in Portland a few months [...]
I’ve been keeping a list of things I want to use with my Smoking Gun, and at the top of that list is eggs. I had this idea that smoked deviled eggs would be a good idea. I decided to smoke just the yolks, using cherrywood chips. In hindsight, I think applewood would have been [...]
This is a genius method for making popcorn. It’s easy, it’s fast, and it’s way better than microwave popcorn. I’d love to say this was all my idea, but I got it from Ryan over at The Spinning Cook. His post went up last September, and I don’t know why I didn’t make this sooner. [...]
We went the savory route for this month’s Bake Together. And I went with Spanish flavors, not the first time I’ve veered in that direction. What can I say, I’m a little boring. I really love Abby’s Bake Together challenges. Up until she started them, I was a pretty strict recipe follower. I still am, [...]
The second half-pound of squid we got from our Siren SeaSA delivery was used to make fried calamari (with a twist). We cooked up a batch and just munched on it – it would make a nice appetizer. The squid is again cut into rings (tentacles in half), and then coated in egg and then [...]
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