After spending a night testing food concepts for a collaborative project a friend gave me two boxes of puff pastry, leftover from an abandoned experiment in sausage pies. There was one recipe I had in mind in particular to use the puff pastry for; Yotam Ottolenghi’s caramelized garlic tart. It’s sort of a savory cheesecake… Read More Smoked Ricotta Caramelized Garlic Tart
After finding some good avocados this Monday as well as tortillas and salsa, I decided to make some burritos. I took a couple of cans of pinto beans down from my pantry to make refried beans. On medium low heat, I combined some vegetable oil,* a chopped strip of black forest bacon, a clove of… Read More Bean Burritos
For these pierogies, I used a recipe from Taste of Home, and used a nice piece of Gouda in place of the cheddar. It made about four dozen pierogies. For the filling, I started by boiling a pound of little yellow potatoes, then used a stick blender to mix them with a stick of butter*,… Read More Potato and Gouda Pierogies
Since I’ve been sick for the past few days I’ve been eating mostly frozen meals, dried fruit and little ice cream cones. The little ice cream cones are great because even though they’re melted when we find them, the ice cream is coated in a chocolate shell that keeps it intact until they can be… Read More Pesto Chicken and Asparagus with Cashews
Since I had found a full package of pepperoni as well as a log of sliced mozzarella at the same time, the obvious conclusion was to make pizza. Since I have more than enough of the basic ingredients to make a crust, the only missing ingredient was the sauce. I roughly followed this recipe by… Read More Pepperoni Pizza
This one’s pretty simple. I found a box of frozen carrot spirals this week and wanted to make a quick dinner, so I sauteed a couple of cloves of garlic in a few tablespoons of olive oil, then added the block of noodles and cooked covered, turning occasionally, until they were thawed, which took about… Read More Garlic Parmesan Carrot Noodles
This week I found a bottle of enchilada sauce and spent a while trying to figure out what to do with it. Then I thought, why not just make enchiladas? I wasn’t totally clear on what an enchilada was except for something my ex-boyfriend in Florida had at Taco Bell once: a burrito, but in… Read More Turkey Enchiladas
Nachos in their simplest form are a pile of tortilla chips, with some cheese on it, microwaved until the cheese melts. It’s kind of a sad soggy mess that people make when they aren’t feeling up to making anything better and every time I see it I think about making some decent nachos but, you… Read More Nachos
I’ve been thinking about making buffalo wings ever since I found some chicken wings, and after also finding some fennel, thought it might make a nicer side than the traditional celery sticks. I went ahead and used my log of chevre in both parts of the meal; on the fennel and in the ranch dip… Read More Buffalo Wings With Fennel and Chevre
This is the third time we’ve found burrata. I had never had burrata until I started dumpstering, and it was something my friends spoke of it as though it were a mythical artifact; the ancient golden sword of cheeses. I believe one of them mentioned stuffing a whole one inside a hamburger patty, but maybe… Read More Burrata and Arugula Salad
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