Recession Recipes

A big trend in food right now is the emergence of food carts around the country, especially in cities like Portland, San Francisco, and LA. These mobile gourmet kitchens serve street food kicked up a notch, and perhaps one of the best known food carts is the Kogi BBQ truck in LA, which uses Twitter [...]

You might have noticed that we’ve been on this jam/pickling/preserving kick lately. I’m not exactly sure what prompted it, but we’ve been canning stuff lately, and it’s been a lot of fun. I was going to make some sauerkraut, but saw that it took several weeks, so I thought I’d try the kimchi recipe on [...]

What’s better than cooking with building materials? When the latest issue of Bon Appetit arrived, the chicken on the front cover looked really good. Roast chicken, simple as it is, is one of my favorite foods, and this looked like an interesting twist. Flip to the article, and the recipe lists a brick under “Special [...]

This Mixed Berry Jam is a slight variation of the Plum Jam from yesterday, and just as simple to make. You use strawberries as your base and then add a mixture of berries. I only had blueberries on hand, so I used just them and the jam was outstanding. I love putting a dollop of [...]

One of my latest food obsessions is making homemade jam. Ever since I made Strawberry Jam a couple of months ago, I’ve been looking for new recipes to make. The September issue of Food & Wine magazine includes a few fast and easy jam recipes that have helped me create small batches of luscious jam.
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Last Friday, I spent the day waiting in doctors’ offices while Carlo got tested for an array of ailments, put on oxygen and an IV drip, and had a CAT scan of his abdomen. It was really scary, and even though we don’t definitively know what was wrong with him, Carlo is thankfully doing much [...]

There is nothing worse than going to the grocery store or farmers’ market and stocking up on fresh vegetables or fruit, only to have them go bad in your fridge. While Carlo and I have almost perfected the art of buying just what we need for the week’s menu, we still have to toss out [...]

I’ve been loving on the carbonara pastas lately, even though I know that they probably aren’t the most healthy dinner dishes to eat. This Jamie Oliver recipe for Asparagus Fettuccine has no bacon or creme fraiche, and in fact is pretty healthy. But when blended together, the slowly cooked veggies with vegetable broth become surprisingly [...]

I’m so excited: Tonight is both the finale of Top Chef Masters and the premier of Top Chef Las Vegas! I’ve got my fantasy Top Chef team picked out and I’m ready to watch some cooking! I only wish that Jay Rayner was coming back to be a judge on Top Chef LV instead of [...]

Often times I crave Thai food, and I’ll either make Carlo head across town with me to our favourite Thai restaurant in Vegas, Lotus of Siam, or we will be lazy and order take out from Pin Kaow, which is no where as good as Lotus of Siam, but they deliver.
However this fast and easy [...]