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Posted in Cooking & Recipes, Family & Kids on May 20th, 2008
This weekend I discovered a couple of things my son can't eat because of his egg allergies... just about anything from Pizza Hut and just about anything from Trader Joe's.
If a machine makes egg burritos, then veggie burritos, they have to note on the veggie burrito label that the machine that made them also processes [...]
Posted in Cooking & Recipes, Just Personal on Apr 22nd, 2008
So, they've had this woman, Pim (or is it Pym?) as a judge on Iron Chef America recently, billing her as a food blogger. She speaks with an accent and I'd say her English is pretty good except for the fact that she seems to know only one adjective.
It's the Iron Chef drinking game... [...]
Posted in Cooking & Recipes, Home Life on Mar 2nd, 2008
So, with Passover coming up and my son just having turned three, I've been trying to figure out an eggless matzoh ball that could compare to the egg-laden ones I recall as a kid, so we can have a seder with my favorite traditional Jewish foods, but keep his egg allergy in mind. I [...]
Posted in Cooking & Recipes, Home Life on Feb 14th, 2008
I've been softening up my wife throughout the week, buying her little just because gifts... some books, some avocados, some of the chocolates I brought her on our first date. Tonight, though, I pull out the big guns... Pastry and booze!
For the pastry, I picked some store-bought French madeleine cookies, because they're one of [...]
Posted in Cooking & Recipes on Nov 14th, 2007
Last night, I participated in "Talking With Our Mouths Full", an amazing program of readings about food, featuring Seattle area writers. All of the readings were wonderful, and to pick favorites almost feels like I'm casting aspersions on the others. I'm not doing so at all. I enjoyed them all.
Still, [...]
Posted in Cooking & Recipes on Oct 15th, 2007
My wife, as she browsed through artsy and craftsy stores in Portland last weekend, wanted to show she was thinking of me (while she was off having fun at an art conference and I was home doing a 3-day weekend of toddler wrangling). So she bought me some bacon flavored mints.
After she bragged in [...]
Posted in Cooking & Recipes on Jul 29th, 2007
While shopping this afternoon for supplies to make my famous sweet potato latkes, I stumbled upon this new product from Kraft... ready to eat cheesecake filling. Basically a tub O' cheesecake you can eat with a spoon.
I was shocked, amazed, dumbstruck. I picked up a tub and impromptu quizzed an unsuspecting couple of [...]
Posted in Cooking & Recipes, Society on Jan 16th, 2007
It's a common complaint, over-saucing at Taco Bell.
I'm not talking about how much sauce they put on their food, but instead, how many hot sauce packets they give you with it. In my last two visits to Taco Bell, I got 18 and 12 hot sauce packets respectively.
On the day I got [...]
Posted in Cooking & Recipes, Home Life on Jan 3rd, 2007
Here's something I learned over the holidays. When giving food gifts, be sure you're not sending people stuff they can't eat, whether it's due to allergies, illnesses, or religious beliefs.
This Christmas, my family received two food gifts we had to re-gift because of these issues. I'm not stepping on any toes by discussing [...]
Posted in Cooking & Recipes, Home Life on Nov 30th, 2006
This is a traditional recipe for potato latkes, a Jewish potato pancake that is a favorite at holiday times, but substitutes sweet potatoes for regular potatoes.
Besides the generally sweeter flavor, which balances very well against the savory flavors like the salt and garlic, the additional sugars in the sweet potatoes (as opposed to [...]
Posted in Cooking & Recipes, Home Life on Nov 30th, 2006
This is another fruit sauce that utilizes pears. I've found it goes great as a dipping sauce with my sweet potato latkes. The cilantro and lemon give it a great tang and freshness that melds with the softness and sweetness of the pears and sugar for a wonderful balance. The amount of [...]
Posted in Cooking & Recipes, Home Life on Nov 30th, 2006
This is an amazing fruit sauce that goes well savory meats, desserts, or just a crusty loaf of French bread. It also makes your kitchen smell amazing.
Ingredients:
2 pears
1 cup raspberries or strawberries
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 cups dessert wine (an inexpensive ruby port or a muscat)
1 ounce lemon juice
2 tbs butter
1 tsp allspice
Preparation
Peel, core, and [...]
Posted in Cooking & Recipes, Home Life on Nov 30th, 2006
This is a recipe I created one winter that has become a household favorite. It evokes certain old world sensibilities, but the best thing about it is how it is sweet and warming.
Prep Time: About 15-20 minutes
Cook Time: About 45 minutes
Ingredients
1 head of cabbage
3 medium size apples (I use Fuji, but you can experiment)
1 [...]