We had our friends Matt and Sean over for dinner, and the pressure was on. They love food. They live in San Francisco and are used to eating at some of the best restaurants around. My goal was to make something delicious but still easy enough for me to enjoy their company. I decided on [...]
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I know there’s not that much that’s special about a caesar salad – it’s been done, and it’s not hard to make. And kale salad, it’s the trendiest of trendy right now. I got an inexplicable amount of pleasure out of making the caesar dressing for the salad. It’s pretty standard – garlic, egg yolk, [...]
This cake is the perfect finish for a dinner party. It’s dramatic and amazingly delicious, especially if you like chocolate. And it’s not fussy to make – everything can be made the day before so that it’s ready to be assembled a few hours before the fun starts. My success with big, multi-layer cakes is [...]
I ran my second half-marathon of the year this past weekend. It’s been a few years since I ran a half, let alone two in one year, and in my mind, that means we deserved an indulgent, delicious dinner to recover. We headed straight to the farmer’s market after the race, intent on hitting up [...]
Another camping trip, this time with friends. Another first! I was in charge of food, of course. I was nervous about cooking for six of us so I tried to keep it simple and similar to what I knew worked before. I knew I would grill some sort of chicken, thinking it’s the most agreeable [...]
This is the second of three recipes I made for Cheryl‘s book signing at Leigh’s Favorite Books. I almost didn’t make this one because as good as it sounded, I thought it would be overly ambitious to make three things. I went ahead and made up some wheat berries just in case I changed my [...]
The perfect occasion for this simple cake: our friend Brandon was over for dinner, and he’s a picky eater. This cake is difficult for even the most picky of eaters to resist. I love that the cake is cooked in cast iron. My old skillet is pretty much nonstick at this point, a result of [...]
Sometimes it’s just best to play it safe and make things that are easy and that you know are good. For this week’s Siren SeaSA delivery (fresh salmon), we did just that. A simple glaze and grilled on a cedar plank is all it needs. And on the side, I made yet another kale salad [...]
I initially intended to make the delicious Survival of the Fittest kale salad posted on Foodzie, but we got fennel in our CSA delivery this week so I figured I’d try something new. I had seen Heidi’s posting on a market kale salad on 101 Cookbooks but I kind of dismissed it. Eh, it’s got [...]
I didn’t have huge expectations for this pork. Pork tenderloin is good and all, but meat on a stick? Meh. I made it anyway, and I’m so glad I did. The pork is sliced thin (the recipe calls for pork fillet, I just used tenderloin), and then marinated in a mixture of aromatics, fish sauce [...]
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