I love transferrable skills. It’s one of the reasons I do my best to talk about understanding food rather than memorizing recipes. If you understand food, then you can take an idea and move it across an entire spectrum of entrees. Like, for example, the idea of including onion in a recipe without really including [...]
Category Archives: cheddar cheese
Black Bean Tacos
Also posted in Ingredient, black beans, mince, olive oil, onion, saute, simmer Tagged black beans, gluten free, vegan 1 Comment
The joy of breakfast: western style omelet
I relish the weekend’s slow time, morning minutes spent dicing vegetables, rendering fat and crisping bacon. The luxury to dawdle in the kitchen, allowing eggs to come to temperature, to linger moments over a sizzling pan and get a bearing on the day. And I love the decadence of a perfect omelet.
This past Saturday afforded [...]
Also posted in bacon, bell pepper, dice, egg, onion, salt, tomato 5 Comments
It’s not a failure if you end on a good note
Let’s get it out of the way: I’m sorry. I feel like such an irresponsible blogger, especially since I started with such promise, such lofty goals. Teach myself how to really cook, I said. Learn about food fundamentals through study, practice, and writing about it, the very act of articulation enough to instill in myself [...]
Also posted in Memoir, black beans, essay, flour tortillas, garlic, monterey jack cheese, onion, salt Tagged black beans, burrito, recipe, weekly review 4 Comments
Hearty broccoli and potato soup
My daughter’s a picky eater, one of those people who is particular about both taste and texture. Things easily range into some combination of bitter/slimy, so we have to be careful what we serve her. Strange thing, though, she seems to like all beans, from lentils to lima (spare me, okay?). She’s eleven.
Beyond [...]
Also posted in boil, broccoli, chop, potato, puree, roast, salt Tagged broccoli, cheddar cheese, potato, recipe, soup, vegetarian 7 Comments