Dinner Love. » Non recipe posts

Drumroll, please…

steffanyf — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:59:19 +0000

As a general rule, I try to keep this blog recipe-based, meaning no silly little musings in between recipe posts and definitely nothing non-food related. I figure waxing poetic (or moderately snarktastic and psychotic, as the case may be!) is ok as long as it’s over a recipe I’m showing you. I try to keep things simple.

I know I haven’t been keeping up with my promised once a week schedule. I suck. I’m trying, but my next two weeks are going to be totally insane.

The real point to this post is that on Saturday my boyfriend proposed via a video game that he made and named after this blog! The game is called Dinner Love and the Quest for Soup. I had to play through the game as a little avatar of myself, as I tromped through the streets of San Francisco and collected foods. At the end of the game was the proposal!!

If you want to see the proposal video (and you know you do!) it’s on YouTube here:

If you are interested in playing the game, there is a link in the video description.

So, anyway, I’m engaged! Squee!!

<3 Stef

The Cheese Kit Cometh!

steffanyf — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:13:19 +0000

Yeah. You heard me.

A few months ago I found this amazing Etsy shop called Urban Cheesecraft. They sell, yup, cheese making kits. I sent the link to Anders with a mention that a cheese kit would make an awesome gifty for muah, and lo and behold! He remembered!

The kit comes with everything you need to make 30 batches of cheese. Each batch makes between 1 and 1.5 lbs of cheese, so I have enough to make 30-45 POUNDS of cheese. CHEESE.

Also included are cheese molds, thermometer, vegetable rennet, citric acid, cheese salt, instruction booklets (you can make mozzarella, ricotta, chevre, queso blanco and paneer), and ultra-fine muslin.

I haven’t decided which cheese I am going to make first, but I am currently leaning towards chevre, which means I need to buy some goat milk. I’ve never purchased goat milk before. This should be awesome.

So wait with bated breath my friends! Coming soon – DinnerLove, homemade cheese edition.

<3 Stef

I haven’t abandoned you.

steffanyf — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:41:32 +0000

I just don’t have a kitchen to cook in. For serious.

I’ve been experiencing some major apartment drama since I moved to Boston (which was a lovely welcome to the east coast) and I might have to move. Because I might have to move I’ve kept all of my stuff in boxes, and am currently operating with a minimal kitchen setup. Surprisingly, it hasn’t affected my cooking all that much but I haven’t been able to get in the mood to create a real blog. I used up all of my picture backlog, too.

I’m thinking about doing something with apples, because it’s fall and apples are everywhere. Maybe some Apple Brown Betty? I think I have a pan I can use for that, somewhere. There was rumor of an apple-picking expedition with some of my classmates but I missed it because I was in California.

Until next time. Don’t give up on me. I would never give up on you.

xo, Stef

In which I explain my absence.

steffanyf — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:47:53 +0000

No, I haven’t given up on you, or on my foodie adventures.

I AM in the process of moving across the country, from San Francisco to Boston. I’m starting grad school in about 2.5 weeks, and during that time I also have to pack up my apartment, move, and get settled into the new place. I have a backlog of recipes and photos to post, but I’ve just had so much else going on I haven’t had the time to sit down and post them.

I’m going to have to ask you to bear with me for a bit longer, until I can resume my weekly posting schedule. I might throw something together for tomorrow, but maybe not. I’m not sure of the exact date that I’ll be able to start posting regularly again. Thankfully I don’t have class every day; my Fridays are free. The bad news is that I don’t have anyone to feed in Boston, so I’m going to have to make some friends fast. The good news is that I will have baked goods to entice strangers into coming over to my house.

Yes.

<3 Stef

Ice cream postponed!

steffanyf — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:55:31 +0000

I’m making totally delicious ice cream for you all, but it is taking a bit longer to freeze than I thought it would. As a result, I’m running out of daylight and won’t be able to post finished pictures and instructions until tomorrow.

Until then,

<3 Stef

Today I Am Lazy.

steffanyf — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:37:38 +0000

I’ll admit it.

Today was an exceptionally lazy day for me, and coupled with recipe-block (yes, I just made that up. I’ve got a mind like a steel trap, I do!) this means that I don’t have a recipe to share with you this evening. I will definitely have a post by tomorrow afternoon, however. I’m brewing a little something up in my mind, something that involves-

Steak

Tomatoes

Onion

Cheese (blue or gorgonzola, can’t decide)

and possibly Cous cous. Or Quinoa.

I know it will be delicious, I just don’t quite know what “it” is yet.

<3 Stef

No blog today!

steffanyf — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:46:37 +0000

Hello all,
This blog is to inform you that today’s recipe duo (yup, TWO recipes!) will be posted on Monday.
It’s a long story, but I’m going to try to make it quick because I’m currently typing letter-by-letter with a Wii remote (wiimote).
I’m in Arizona visiting my 1.5 year old niece, and I assumed my brother would have a computer at his house. Well, you know what they say about assumptions, and now I’m the ass who spent 4 hours yesterday preparing today’s blog, only to be typing this apology with a videogame controller today.
Internet access, but no computer. Le SIGH.

<3 Stef

Mexican fiesta on hold.

steffanyf — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:53:08 +0000

Hey guys,

I had this amazing Cinco de Mayo enchilada extravaganza planned for yesterday, but the fates conspired against me. I ended up being just to busy to pull something adequate together! Sorry about that.
Never fear, however. I will absolutely, definitely post the Mexican enchilada feast on Thursday, followed on Friday with a Mother’s Day brunch special.

Thanks for being patient!

<3 Stef

Hello, hello!

steffanyf — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:22:00 +0000

Hello to anyone who may be here from BrokeAss Gourmet! I am so excited to have won their Good Vibrations Giveaway with my sexy 3 course meal idea.

My blogging schedule is typically Tuesdays and Fridays, but in honor of my victory I am planning on doing a detailed write up of my winning recipes, with a lot more pictures than are posted on the BrokeAss site, later today. I figure I will have everything written and ready by 3pm.

If you would like to see the Molten Chocolate Cake recipe, that recipe was featured on Friday, April 10th. You can get to it by either using the Blog Archives on the right, or just scroll down.

Again, thanks so much to everyone, and I hope you enjoy what you see here! If you have any questions about any of the recipes posted, or about the ones I wrote for the BrokeAss giveaway, please don’t hesitate to email me at sefarros at gmail dot com.
Wooden spoon meditation.

<3 Stef

Friday’s Post-April 17

steffanyf — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:22:00 +0000

I regret to inform you all that I will be unable to post anything this Friday. I’m up in Portland visiting my friend Bryna who just had a baby. She (Bryna, not the baby) can make chocolate chip cookies without a recipe. She is the only person I know who can do this. She’s kind of my hero.

I meant to prepare a post before I left California but it just never came together. I hope you enjoy my faux hostess cupcake recipe, though!

I want to make this up to you. So, I’m taking suggestions. My next post will be next Tuesday, April 21. So what would you like to see me make? The idea I like the best will be be the one I execute.

Aaaaaaaand go!

<3 Stef