Last night went pretty well, considering I cut my finger on a piece of glass reaching for a jar of pasta sauce. We didn’t bother going to multiple places; it was freezing out, I was bleeding, there was no need since I mostly wanted fruit and yogurt and found plenty of both. They were throwing… Read More February 18, 2019
I first made this recipe by Erin McDowell from PureWow years ago as part of a vegetarian Thanksgiving meal. The idea is that the cauliflower, a round, roasted thing, is a sort of visual replacement for the turkey, though it’s much smaller and functions as more of a side than a main course. The recipe… Read More Roasted Cauliflower
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
Last night we found a great deal of food very quickly and were home in around an hour and a half, but the volume was so great that we were up as late as usual sorting and rinsing it. I took less than a third of the total home (I always tell myself I should… Read More February 4, 2019
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
Normally when I make biscuits, they’re simple baking powder biscuits with nothing but flour, shortening, milk, baking powder, salt, and if they’re being used for strawberry shortcakes, a little sugar. That recipe has a buttermilk variation, but I decided to use a recipe from Live Well Bake Often instead because it uses butter instead of… Read More Buttermilk Biscuits
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
Since I had a lot of lemons and eggs this week I decided to make a lemon meringue pie. It’s a very light pie that doesn’t actually take much to bake, except a somewhat labor-intensive process. The recipe (I made an 8 inch pie; the recipe linked is the same recipe but for a 9… Read More Lemon Meringue Pie
Tonight brought the most stuff I’ve managed to get home by myself without my friend and his truck. Of course I prefer going with him but it does feel good to know I can handle finding and carrying all this stuff on my own. Normally it seems like the dumpsters are empty when I show… Read More January 28, 2019
Two weeks ago I found a bag of almond meal. This isn’t finely ground enough to use for stuff like macarons or frangipane but it’s great for breading. So I’m using it to bread some mahi-mahi. I grew up calling this fish “dolphin,” which of course led to a lot of people briefly upset at… Read More Almond-Crusted Mahi-Mahi
Good Dumpster Cooking 