Tortilla Espanola is a Spanish tapa (bar snack). It’s made with potatoes, onion, olive oil, and egg and is CRAZY delicious. It’s relatively easy to cook, but the execution can be tricky. You see, you cook the whole mess in a frying pan and then you have to finagle it out by flipping it onto [...]
Archive for the ‘dinner’ Category
The Lazy Blogger: Belgian Beef Stew with Mashed Potatoes
Posted in dinner, soup, tagged beef, beer, belgian, fall, mashed potato, please a crowd, stew, winter, winter dinner on February 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
As I’m sure you’ve noticed, I haven’t exactly been posting much in my dusty corner of the internets. I’d like to say that it is because I am just so super busy I barely have the time to cook for myself, forget teaching the rest of cyberspace. But that would be a lie. A dirty, [...]
Recipe: Meatloaf&Roasted Potatoes, Dinner Club Edition!
Posted in dinner, lunch, sauces and sides, tagged dinner club, easy dinner, meatloaf, potato, roast on October 29, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Back in September I made my friends Elise and Kellie dinner as a thank-you for collecting my mail while I was in San Francisco. During dinner, they both mentioned how they wished they could cook because I made it look so easy. While I AM pretty awesome, and no doubt my brilliant culinary ballet stunned [...]
Recipe: Fiddleheads, Fiddleheads (Pasta…)
Posted in dinner, for veggies, lunch, tagged east coast, fiddleheads, local, parmesean, pasta on June 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Oh, the fiddlehead. What a strange little veggie. I had literally never seen them until a few weeks ago when I walked into Whole Foods and they were situated right in front of the produce section. I thought they were very cool looking, and the sign said that they tasted like asparagus. Plus, they were [...]
Adobo Throwdown!
Posted in dinner, ethnic foods, recipes to impress, tagged adobo, adobo throwdown, asian, chicken, contest, filipino, rice on May 24, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Last weekend, I participated in an Adobo Throwdown. For the uninitiated, Adobo is a Spanish word that refers to multiple different kinds of spices, dishes or rubs, but in this instance it refers specifically to a Filipino dish made with chicken or pork and stewed in vinegar, garlic, sugar, soy and pepper. It’s funny because [...]
Recipe: Bouef Bourguignon
Posted in dinner, recipes to impress, tagged beef, bourf, bourguignon, child, french, julia, stew on April 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
So I watched Julie & Julia the other day (I know I’m a bit late to the party) and Julia Child’s Bouef Bourguignon is elevated to some kind of magical cult status in that movie. It will ease your worries! Soothe your soul! Impress your friends, relatives, and newspaper columnists!!!! So I kind of figured, [...]
Recipe: Goat’s Milk CHEESE!
Posted in dinner, how to, lunch, recipes to impress, snackies, tagged cheese, chevre, diy, goat, handmade, homemade, milk on February 28, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I finally got around to hauling out my kit from Urban Cheesecraft and making some queso. And it was AWESOME. I love making things that you usually have to buy (marshmallows, anyone?) because it makes me feel oddly powerful. Like, eff you world! I can MAKE SHIT. If the zombie apocalypse came tomorrow, you would [...]
Recipe: Crab Like Dad Makes
Posted in dinner, lunch, recipes to impress, tagged crab, dad, dungeness, easy, fast, greek, lemon, olive oil, pepper, san francisco on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In case you haven’t guessed, this is crab the way my dad makes it. It’s not much of a recipe, more of a “throw everything in there and mix well” sort of deal, but I’ve never had crab this way unless it’s with my dad. Here in San Francisco (back home for winter break, woo!) [...]
Recipe: Cheesy Stuffed Acorn Squash
Posted in dinner, for veggies, lunch, tagged acorn, boston, cheese, massachusetts, orzo, pasta, squash, vegetarian, winter on December 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I know I talk about this all the time and you probably want me to shut up, but I’m a recent west coast transplant. In California, we get produce all year round. It’s awesome. The local variety changes, so in the winter we get lots of root veggies and greens, but the produce is there [...]
Recipe: Peach Cobbler
Posted in breakfast, dessert, dinner, tagged addy walker, american girls, boxcar children, breakfast, cobbler, dessert, easy, fall, fast, peach, quick, samantha parkington, summer on October 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
When I was a child, I was enamored of the kitchen. I always used to ask my mother if I could help her cook dinner, and I was always very annoyed when she told me I could make the salad. The salad? I would think. A salad is not cooking. I wanted to use the [...]


