Recession Recipes

We are dogsitting in Boulder City for a few days, and I miss our kitchen and having my days revolve around cooking and eating. I’m a bit hung over from staying up far too late last night watching Planet Earth and drinking wine with Carlo, so looking at these pictures of the Smoked Salmon and [...]

We picked up some pork loin on sale a little while ago, and tossed it in the freezer. We had a hankering for some green chile stew, so Alex found a good recipe from Emeril Lagasse online. As an added bonus, it had no references to BAM! or Essence, which was great. It feeds 4 [...]

I’ve been on a pretty good streak in the kitchen lately. Ever since my meltdown over uncooperative puff pastry, I’ve been making some great recipes and more importantly really enjoying myself in the kitchen. Granted what you see on this website is edited, so we don’t post recipes that sounded good on paper, but didn’t [...]

I like eggplant, but I do get pretty bored with it sometimes. Grilled eggplant, ratatouille and my few other ideas for preparing it get worn out pretty quickly. And forget anything that asks for it to be sauteed or cooked in oil, since I can never manage to prevent the eggplant from soaking up the [...]

Last week when Carlo and I met his family in Carlsbad, his brother gave us some more Meyer Lemons from his garden in Tucson. Last time he gave us some, I made the delicious Lemon Curdy Pudding. However this time I wanted to make something savory with the lemons, so I made Moroccan Chicken [...]

In honor of Memorial Day, here are some fun drinks to enjoy today while outside by the grill or pool: Homemade Ginger Ale and Ginger Bulleit Limade.

I bought around 2.5 lbs of fresh ginger for $2.37 at the 99 Ranch Market in Chinatown as the basis for these drinks. I love exploring different ethnic grocery [...]

In my other life, I write about mobile phones, so of course I’ve added a Wordpress plug-in to serve up a specially formatted version of Recession Recipes if you visit it from a phone’s web browser. So the next time you’re out or at the store, trying to think of something to make, hit http://recessionrecip.es [...]

It’s Memorial Day weekend, which means lots of you will gather around a grill over the next few days, so we wanted to get together a full menu for your barbecue this weekend. I dithered a bit in choosing what to throw on the grill (as I usually do), but we settled on these choices [...]

I love summer because it brings sweet and juicy tomatoes, and tons of basil. Both seasonal ingredients are a perfect match for each other and often end up together in a Caprese Salad. Here is an updated version of this classic Tomato and Mozzarella Salad, but instead of whole basil leaves and a simple dressing [...]

It’s summer, at least in Vegas, so it’s time to fire up the grill and get out of the heat of the kitchen (and into the heat outside!). The latest issue of Food & Wine magazine has lots of great grilling recipes, including these two. The Chicken Legs with Roasted Garlic-Ancho Sauce feeds four people [...]