Spicy Asian eggplant is a pretty common dish at Chinese restaurants. This is my re-creation of it, with pork added, because what’s good without pig is even better with it. This can be done more simply by skipping the salting, cornstarch coating, and frying of the eggplant – just sautéing it with the pork instead….
Tag: Dinner
3.14 Pi(e) Day
March 14 is Pi Day (3.14 get it?), or as I like to think of it – Pie Day! If you’ve been following along at all, you know that pie is one of my favorite things. So a day dedicated to getting as much of it as possible into my pie hole has some pretty…
Get Your Grill On
When Nelson said he had a brisket that he’d been smoking for 12 hours and would anyone like to come over for a BBQ, we all agreed this seemed like a fine idea. For dinner on a random Wednesday night, I’d say we represented pretty well. Dinner Tim made this stunning fruit platter. I challenge…
Cutting Corners with Lasagna
Sometimes an impromptu night of home-making lasagna is exactly what you need. The Lasagna The star of the show, naturally, was the lasagna. We started with homemade pasta sheets. Anthony made his secret tomato sauce recipe, which included ground beef, Italian sausage, tomatoes, wine, and a set of spices that shall never be revealed. It…
Bringing In the Year of the Rooster
A couple weeks ago, we celebrated Chinese New Year by closing out the Year of the Monkey. Now we get to celebrate by bringing in the Year of the Rooster! Many of the dishes are family traditions which will look familiar from the last feast, but I love to eat these foods so I don’t…
Super (Rice) Bowl
I love the Super Bowl. It combines two of my favorite things – food and football. It’s especially great to celebrate with foodie friends. Sure, we had all the usual suspects like beer, chips, salsa, guac. But then we stepped it up a notch with things like homemade crab dip (find my Guessipe here) and homemade…
Pasta Party
For Christmas, Katy got pasta attachments for her KitchenAid mixer. She invited a bunch of us to come over and make our favorite sauce to go with the three different kinds of homemade pasta she whipped up. Definitely my kind of party. Capellini First, she had capellini. These were the thinnest noodles. Alyssa made Marcella…
Carrot Coconut Curry Pasta
We were doing a pasta party, and all of the standard sauce bases were covered – tomato, vodka, bolognese. So I wanted to experiment with something different. When I was recovering from knee surgery, my cousin had made me a big batch of carrot coconut curry soup, and I remembered thinking those flavors might be…
Closing Out the Year of the Monkey
Chinese New Year is one of my favorite holidays. It’s largely centered around food, and you go home with sweets and red envelopes full of money. Need I say more? I inherited my love of food from my family, so there is no shortage of good eats at our Chinese New Year feast. It typically…
Snowy Smorgasbord
What happens when a bunch of foodies go up to a cabin in the mountains for a winter weekend getaway? A lot of cooking and eating… oh, and some snow play too. Day 1 Coconut pancakes for breakfast. Some off-trail riding to work up an appetite. Chicken under a brick, chickpeas romesco, and garlic rice…
Ravioli, Gnocchi, Marinara, Brown Butter Sage Sauce
Cookbook Club – Handmade Pasta The holiday season tends to be filled with gatherings that heavily involve eating (and therefore cooking). It’s a wonderful time for the kind of people who would join a Cookbook Club, but we were worried that people might need a bit of a break. We didn’t want to skip December’s…
Iron Chef X-mas 2016
Special Ingredient: Cinnamon! I get my love of food from my family. We’ve often been known to start discussing what we’re going to eat for our next meal, while still in the process of eating our current meal. We decided to make Christmas 2016 an Iron Chef X-mas – Special Ingredient: Cinnamon! Each participant could…