Jun 10 2009
Ingredients: 1 tbs of olive oil 2 tbs of butter 2 tbs of flour ¾ cup of milk ½ to ¾ of a block of extra sharp white cheddar cheese grated 1 and ½ cups of orzo pasta ¾ cup halved grape tomatoes 1/8 cup of chopped fresh basil 1 cup shredded rotisserie chicken (or [...]
Jun 08 2009
This is a sublimely easy recipe, but these are the recipes I love. It’s super quick and may be one you already know, but I wanted to share. We usually eat it with chips, but you can also make mashed potatoes and use the gravy on the mashed potatoes as well. The recipe below is [...]
Jun 01 2009
Chocolate and Cinnamon Croissants I created this recipe after having run into a cooking conundrum (not unusual). I was going to make Giada De Laurentiis’ cinnamon twists, but the puff pastry I had defrosted had somehow gotten dried out in the freezer. In addition I didn’t have the cardamom the recipe called for. What I [...]
May 30 2009
As you may have noticed many of my cooking beginning debacles involve fried food. I’m not sure why I try to fry food because I am not particularly good at it and it usually ends with some sort of disastrous results. These include fanning out the entire house and opening all the windows so the [...]
May 28 2009
Did you know that there are different types of salt? I’m sure you are questioning my cooking skills right now, but even though I knew there were different types of salt I didn’t know that certain ones are used in certain recipes even if they aren’t specifically stated. Three types are kosher salt, sea salt, [...]
May 22 2009
*These stories are tales from my first cooking adventures before I learned things like “read the recipe”.
