Some of my best (and easiest) recipes over the last few months have come from Real Simple. Every recipe I’ve tried includes only a few ingredients, most of which I already have in the kitchen.
Since I haven’t included anything foodie-related in a while, I thought I would share one of my new favorite recipes [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘For Foodies’
August 17, 2008
Pasta Bolognese
May 21, 2008
Haggard heaven
On Saturday Jason and I went to the Seattle Cheese Festival at Pike Place Market. Being avid cheese lovers, we’d been looking forward to this event for months.
It was that blazing hot day, but it was worth it – there were more free samples of cheese than we could’ve possibly eaten.
Our favorites were
Roquefort Papillon’s [...]
March 20, 2008
Doughnuts make my day
Calling all Seattle carb-loaders–today I discovered there is a new Top Pot Doughnuts on QUEEN ANNE!!!
I was doing my routine errand to Trader Joe’s and low and behold, THERE IT WAS. Upon my discovery I frantically pulled over, only considering for a mere second and a half if I should go in.
The nice gentleman [...]
March 6, 2008
Slow-Cooker Lasagna
I had a bad experience using my crock pot the first time–dry chicken (fyi, Adelle says don’t use chicken breasts!). And I’m hesitant to make lasagna because it seems so labor intensive.
That’s why I was intrigued to try this recipe. The use of fresh herbs and swiss chard make it light. We added [...]
February 18, 2008
Chef Jason
For Valentine’s Day Jason made me an AMAZING meal.
Blue Cheese Crusted Filet Mignon with Port Wine Sauce
Roasted Potatoes with Greens
Easy Asparagus
Strawberry Avocado Salad (not pictured)
Our wine was Catena, a Malbec from Argentina. For a $25 bottle (which is pricey for us), we both rated it an okay-good.
And the GRAND FINALE . . .
Jason’s Famous [...]
January 26, 2008
Butternut Squash Soup & Spinach Salad
I used to hate to cook and never thought I would be good at it. I would follow the recipe exactly and things would still turn out mediocre or worse. I just didn’t have that “sense” for cooking that really good cooks have.
Over the course of the last few years I have taken [...]
December 18, 2007
Cookie baking escapades
Tonight Sally and I got ourselves caught up in a whirl of Christmas cookie baking for Jason’s co-workers, our Community Group, and Sally’s work friends. The lineup was sour cream sugar cookies (with sprinkles), peanut butter no-bakes, and cherry coconut macaroons.
In process.
The halfway point and resulting SUGAR HIGH. Dance by Sally.
The finishing touches.
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June 12, 2007
Mexican food and my man
I was never into Mexican food. Too greasy and gross for me. Jason really likes it and he’s helped me discover my inner I-Love-Mexican self (how did I ever live without him?).
I had Mexican tagged all wrong, I tell ya. What I had was crap. Real Mexican is real good. [...]
