Recession Recipes

Happy Pancake Day! I have been dreaming of lemon and sugar pancakes all day and can’t wait to make them tonight. I’m still debating about whether to make enough pancakes so they can become dinner, or half the recipe and just make a small batch for myself as dessert.
Pancake Day reminds me of the powerful [...]

We had a couple of friends over on Sunday night to try out a few recipes from the cookbook Tacos that Carlo got for Christmas. We started off the night with chips, salsa, our friend Mike’s great guacamole, and this queso recipe. We ended up eating so much of the appetizers that all of us [...]

The simple things can often be some of the best. When in Catalunya, the part of Spain that holds Barcelona, this holds true for the well-known pan con tomate (or pa amb tomaquet in Catalan). It’s simply toasted bread rubbed with a clove of raw garlic and a tomato, then salted — and it’s the [...]

The perfect accompaniment to yesterday’s Hatch Green Chile con Queso is a great salsa. Despite tomato season being over, this Fire Roasted Tomato Salsa from Rick Bayless proves that you can have awesome tasting salsa year round by using a can of fire roasted tomatoes.
Throw in some freshly roasted garlic and chiles with a bit [...]

Ask any displaced Texan what they miss most about the Lone Star State, and I bet you anything that queso is in their top five. Nobody can live in Texas and not fall in love with the ubiquitous cheesy dip that acts as the perfect appetizer with chips and salsa, or even better when poured [...]

Carlo and I got hooked on soup for lunch when we lived in Austin and we would order from the Soup Peddler each week. He would deliver vacuum sealed packs of all kinds of soup to our house that were the perfect serving size for lunch for 2 people. Most times we would place the [...]

It kind of pains me to be making a chilled soup in September, but it feels like the heat will be staying with us in Vegas for a few weeks longer. Of course, this is only made worse by all of the smoke in the air from the fires in California.
Vichyssoise is a classic [...]

I officially banned myself from going to the Farmers’ Market for the last couple of weeks. The stands are suffering from that in-between season lull, and it seems like the only thing that has been looking good lately is zucchini, and I think I might have zucchini-ed us out this summer!
I found this Zucchini and [...]

We have really enjoyed watching Top Chef Masters lately. We are huge normal Top Chef fans, but it is just a bit more fun to see such famous chefs scrambling in the kitchen, or draining pasta in a dorm shower. My favourites in the finals right now are Michael Chiarello, Hubert Keller, and Rick Bayless, [...]

Recently, we, or should I say I since I’ve been doing the bulk of the cooking lately, decided to try and eat less meat and more vegetarian meals. This decision was brought on by a variety of factors from wanting to eat better to saving a bit of money.
The whole process of eating tasty vegetarian [...]