Christmas 2014
My parents came to spend the day with us on Christmas Eve and take me grocery shopping for the holiday meals. I was pretty exhausted from a night of very little sleep between the boys’…
My parents came to spend the day with us on Christmas Eve and take me grocery shopping for the holiday meals. I was pretty exhausted from a night of very little sleep between the boys’…
Fresh pork hocks are braised and then broiled over tart cabbage, and served with fluffy German potato dumplings.
Several different uses for shredded sweet potatoes: hashes, fries, and even crepes!
My first experiment with pickling meat---corned beef brisket, to be exact! This recipe is nitrate-free.
Four different meat-centric meals, covering all the bases: beef brisket, crumb-coated pork, roasted chicken, and lamb shanks braised with lentils and curry.
An unusual recipe for lamb dumplings in a scorched yogurt sauce, more tasty than it sounds.
A loving rendition of the classic Greek casserole, moussaka, served with a light cabbage-carrot salad called lahanosalata.
Barbecue beef sandwiches with my homemade sauce and sandwich rolls, and coleslaw with a dressing made from homemade mayonnaise and yogurt---self-sufficiency can be a beautiful thing.
My very first attempt to lacto-ferment cabbage into sauerkraut, as part of the Preserve the Bounty challenge.
Halibut steaks are crusted with shredded potato and pan-roasted, then served with an unusual warm salad of red cabbage, spinach, pancetta, and nuts.
Tasty tilapia from Asia to Italy: Five-spice tilapia with ponzu sauce and veggie-fied garlic noodles; and tilapia piccata over sun-dried tomato couscous.
Italian vegetable soup paired with Dorie Greenspan's corn muffins for a crisper-cleaning, barrel-scraping meal. Plus, a use for those leftover corn muffins the next day---City Bakery's mac and cheese!
Despite my pitiful crimping technique, these homemade wonton wrappers perform admirably when transformed into pork potstickers.
Polish cabbage rolls stuffed with pork and served over mashed potatoes with a creamy paprika-tomato sauce.
Fresh Vietnamese spring rolls filled with chilled shrimp, rice noodles and raw vegetables make an ideal light summer meal.
My homemade potstickers may not be pretty, but they tasted better than anything we've gotten from a Chinese restaurant around here.
…but not so many photos. We have been eating especially well this past week, but I didn’t get pics of most of it. Last Friday night we had a (sadly unphotographed) crustless broccoli quiche. I’ve…