Recession Recipes

Here is another great salmon recipe with a Mexican twist, and perhaps the best recipe for quinoa that I’ve found yet. In case you have never heard of quinoa, it is a super healthy ancient Incan grain that makes for a nice change from brown rice or cous cous.
All of these recipes were published in [...]

I’ve been back in Texas for the last week or so catching up with family and friends, and I just got back from the incredible Central Market grocery store in Fort Worth. Central Market was chockablock full of incredible produce, including tons of beautiful mangoes that are currently in season. I bought some mangoes to [...]

Alex pulled this recipe out of a Michael Chiarello cookbook a few years ago, and we’ve been making it regularly ever since. Fortunately, he’s also posted the recipe on his web site so you can grab it. It’s definitely one of our favorites. It’s good for a side dish at a barbecue, and even better [...]

I like breakfast foods, so every weekend we try to make something yummy at least one morning. I first tried this recipe for Fried Egg with Sage, Chilli, and Garlicky Yoghurt a few months ago, and it became an instant favorite. The title doesn’t quite do it justice, I don’t think, and might sound a [...]

One of the very first recipes that I learned how to make 25 or so years ago–aside from scrambled eggs–was crepes, or English pancakes as they were known in my house. I think my mum taught me how to make them so I would stop asking her to make them all time since it seemed [...]

I found this recipe in a newspaper in England probably about 10 years ago and go through phases of being able to locate it. I’m currently in the “no clue where it is” phase and can’t find it online, but I’ve made it so many times that I don’t really need it. In any case, [...]

Last week we had a brief cold snap in Vegas, where it actually snowed in some parts of the valley (yes, snow in Vegas in April = totally crazy!). Anyway, Carlo and I were craving some stick-to-your-ribs cold weather food before the temperature here quickly heated up to 90 degrees like it did today. I [...]

I bought another cauliflower from the Farmers Market thinking that I was going to make roasted cauliflower soup, but Carlo found this interesting recipe for Whole Baked Cauliflower with Tomato and Olive Sauce on Jamie Oliver’s website.
Whole Baked Cauliflower with Tomato and Olive Sauce makes enough for four people and costs $1.28 per serving.

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Okay, I have to admit that I was ready to hang up my cooking apron when I was making this because I kept on having major puff pastry issues, but the end result was too beautiful and yummy not to share in the hopes that those with better puff pastry karma would have no problems!
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Last weekend were were invited to a barbecue and needed to bring along a side dish. We scoured all of our cookbooks looking for a crowd-pleasing recipe. We found this recipe for Warm Potato-Tomato Salad with Dijon Vinaigrette in Michael Chiarello’s Casual Cooking. The results were so good, we skipped the bbq so we could [...]