This is Marie, contributing an article about a recipe I tried for Apricot Chicken. Grant found this recipe at Yoghurt & Muesli. I had a little difficulty finding apricots in juice rather than in syrup. You might want to check first whether you can find any before planning to use this recipe, or just wait until the season comes back so you don’t have to take out a second mortgage to use fresh ones. Continue reading “Apricot chicken”
Category: our kitchen
Chicken and Pepper Carbonara
This is Marie, sharing a recipe that I concocted because I couldn’t do what had been planned for the evening. Faced with the challenge of nevertheless making something that we hadn’t had before without being able to use the planned recipe for which the ingredients had been purchased, I poked around in my books and found something that, while all the ingredients for it were not actually present, I could still substitute and hope for the best. I chose baked spaghetti carbonara, and changed half of the ingredients. Continue reading “Chicken and Pepper Carbonara”
Slutty Brownies
Today, we have another terrific little baking idea for you to try. It’s an incredibly quick and easy little project that results in some really delicious desserts. Caroline in the City offered the recipe last month, following the work by another blogger, The Londoner. Continue reading “Slutty Brownies”
Sesame “Bad Luck” Chicken
This is Marie, contributing an article about a meal I made that was surrounded by so much drama that the food had to be pretty memorable to be recalled at all! Continue reading “Sesame “Bad Luck” Chicken”
Julia Child’s Favorite Angel Hair Pomodoro
This is Marie, contributing an article about a recipe we got from Steve DiFillippo’s new memoir, It’s All About the Guest. Steve is the founder of Davio’s Northern Italian Steakhouse, a restaurant chain that we really enjoy. Grant has already posted a review of the book this week at The Hipster Dad’s Bookshelf, and today we’re featuring a recipe from it. Synergy! Continue reading “Julia Child’s Favorite Angel Hair Pomodoro”
Cooking with Red Gold, part two – Red Gold Burger
This is Marie, contributing an article about a recipe we tried out from the Red Gold folks who were kind enough to send us some of their products to sample. They sent some of their cans of tomatoes along with a variety of ideas for what to do with them. Continue reading “Cooking with Red Gold, part two – Red Gold Burger”
Cooking with Red Gold, part one – Spicy Burger
This is Marie, contributing an article about the Red Gold Tomato summer promotion, specifically their burger ideas. I have to admit that it wouldn’t have occurred to me to put a can of tomatoes into burger mix, so it was interesting to try out their suggestions. We had the opportunity to try five of their tomato varieties, along with recipes for five different ways to use them in burgers for the grill, and with some spicy ketchup to slather over whichever of them we tried. Look at this stack of interesting varieties. You might be able to get some yourself. Continue reading “Cooking with Red Gold, part one – Spicy Burger”
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