I was such a fool to believe that it was merely called a lettuce wrap and not Larb Gai. For years now I have been this idiotic – for shame! Though often times considered a Thai dish its origins more accurately bring it from Laos where it is the national dish; a meat salad, if [...]
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Chicken Larb Gai
Posted in cooking, tagged chicken, spicy, thai, larb gai, ground chicken, lettuce wraps, laos on December 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Blue Cheese Tomato Soup
Posted in cooking, tagged blue cheese, blue cheese tomato soup, soup, tomato soup on December 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
NEWS FLASH: IT’S COLD OUTSIDE. You shouldn’t go outside, for anything. You should see if you can telecommute to work and then also sell your employer on the idea that you are helping keep the office germ and flu-free. To circumvent the tundra and give the finger to Mother Nature/Father Winter you should stay snuggled [...]
Highview Pastures Farm
Posted in cooking, other thoughts, tagged free-range, highview pastures farm, local, minnesota, thanksgiving, turkey on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We are hosting Thanksgiving this year. I/we have never hosted Thanksgiving before. After the initial freak-out of “omfgwearehostingThanksgiving” I reminded myself that it will be fine, we had after all, hosted a homemade pizza party for 30 people last fall. Because of this, my fear lied in the fact that it is Thanksgiving, a holiday [...]
Chicken, potatoes and homemade spicy garam masaala
Posted in cooking, tagged chicken, garam masaala, indian, potatoes, spices on November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As previously mentioned, I went to The Affair where I attended a chai demo given by cookbook author, chef, biologist and native Indian Raghavan Iyer. After realizing that we have this book at home written by Iyer, I paged through until I found a recipe that contained all (or almost all) of the ingredients we already [...]
wha wha!? non-mashed potato pizza?
Posted in cooking, tagged breakfast, onions, pizza, pizza patate, potato, slized on November 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
So Jim Lahey (YES! THIS Jim Lahey) has a new that came out called My Bread, or rather, my bread. Because of this, his book reviewed with a recipe in Gourmet’s last issue in November. The title of the recipe is called Pizza Patate and includes the necessary pizza dough recipe as well. When I [...]
Russian Dinner Night – Part 3: Pelmeni
Posted in cooking, tagged cuisine, dumpling, pelmeni, russia on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In Russian pelmeni looks like this: пельмени. Visually it looks like this: The word itself may be completely bizarro, but as you can see, пельмени is nothing more than a dumpling. The same type of dumplings that you have eaten many times at your Norwegian grandmothers house, or Swedish, or German, or Chinese (but not the delicious [...]
Russian Dinner Night – Part 2: solyanka!
Posted in cooking, tagged dinner, russian, solyanka, soup on November 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
What people don’t realize about Russia, is that Russians eat much more than borsch and potatoes. If you happen to go to Russia, nothing screams tourist quite like a giddy foreigner ordering borsch. Anyone with an interest in beet soup can imagine how to make it as it doesn’t require a lot of imagination. Fortunately, [...]
Sweet Sweet Sweet Potato Gnocchi
Posted in cooking, tagged gnocchi, gourmet, sage, sweet potato, sweet potato gnocchi on October 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
For the last four weeks, I have been a housewife. My current unemployment affords me the ability to spend a lot of time in the kitchen (in slippers and unpregnant mind you), cooking, baking and I am constantly menu planning whether seriously or merely gathering ideas from various sources. I attempted to make gnocchi several [...]
The Best Vegetarian Chili in the North
Posted in cooking, tagged bean, chili, spicy, vegetarian on October 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It was getting cold and cloudy up here in the great North. The kind of weather where you want to hunker down in your house for the rest of the season until you can step out your door and see the trees budding, and the birds chirping again. If only we lived our lives [...]
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