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
As a child I often made the pudding recipes in the Betty Crocker cookbook. My mom always had two copies of the book so she could photocopy pages that got too covered in batter, and she kept drawings by me and my sister pressed between the pages. She gave me one of those copies, and… Read More Amarena Cherry Chocolate Pudding
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
A few months ago while I was taking a web development course I saw another student walk into the building with a large bag labeled “BRAZILIAN CHEESE BREAD.” I became fascinated. What was Brazilian cheese bread? Was it something like khachapuri? I researched it and found that they’re little puffy rolls made of something sort… Read More Pão de Queijo: Brazilian Cheese Bread
Two weeks ago I found naan. I love naan and wanted to make some kind of Indian dish to go with it, and my favorite is palak paneer; spinach and cheese. I have a few bags of frozen spinach and other ingredients. What I don’t have is paneer. Paneer is a pretty basic cheese and… Read More Ricotta Salata Palak Paneer
A few months ago my friends were raving about cacio e pepe, which just means cheese and pepper. I love black pepper, but it looked like the kind of meal I would want to eat when I didn’t feel like cooking, which meant that the multiple steps involved in cooking it and then washing the… Read More Cacio e Pepe
Since this week I found no bread at all; to eat with my cheese, I baked some thin crusty sourdough baguettes based on a recipe from King Arthur Flour. I used a mixture of white and whole wheat flour and baked them on aluminum foil because I didn’t have long enough pans. From left to… Read More Bread and Cheese
The first shepherd’s pie I ever had was at Ethos, a vegan restaurant in Orlando, which refers to it, adorably, as a “sheep’s pie”. It was simply vegetables topped with mashed potatoes and honestly, despite it being a typically meat-focused dish, that’s still my ideal for what a shepherd’s pie should be. Most of the… Read More Turkey Shepherd’s Pie
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