While I’ve previously expressed some weakness for greasy cheesy junk food, you also already know about my love for all things spicy. This homemade treat offers both the cheesy and the spicy, but healthier and without all the processed additives. There aren’t many tricks, but it helps to leave the stem on the jalapeno if [...]
Archive for September, 2011
25 Sep
Sauteed Mushroom Burritos
I love mushrooms in everything, especially pasta. Some days it just seems so easy to throw some sauteed baby bellas in a good quality pasta with sea salt and grated Parmigiano, that I can get stuck in a rut. While I often combine mushrooms with black beans, I was looking for a lighter dish, so [...]
23 Sep
Chard and Saffron Omelette
This unique omelette recipe from Plenty uses piles of shredded swiss chard, a handful of herbs, garlic, and lemon juice to put a very savory spin on the traditional omelette. Finely chopped potato is cooked with saffron, and then swiss chard is added, just long enough to soften. The herbs are beat with egg, and [...]
22 Sep
Simple Peach Cake
I bought another ten pounds of peaches at the Farmers Market last weekend. I’m just not ready for peach season to be over! After I made pints of ginger peach jam and had a peach for breakfast every morning that week, I made this simple, rustic peach cake for a dinner with a friend. I [...]
21 Sep
Brunch-Run to Ants Pants
A few West Philly friends and I have come up with a new way to get that oft-forgotten weekend run. We pick a location, run there, eat, and then walk or take public transportation home. It’s a great “club” because we have an excuse to eat brunch, can eat as much as we want without [...]
20 Sep
Garden Lunch Salad
My garden is still producing tomatoes and cucumbers and herbs and all kinds of good things. But the beginning of the school year always means that I have less time for cooking in the evening than I would like. My solution? Toss a whole bunch of delicious things in a tupperware, take them to work, [...]
13 Sep
Rhuby at AITA
During September’s First Friday I popped in at Art in the Age to see the new show by the Reverend Michael Alan’s new show – a collection of drawings that eventually influenced the design of the AITA’s Rhuby label. Not yet able to find a bottle on the shelves, I was delighted to try this [...]
8 Sep
Black Pepper Tofu
I’m about to make a very bold claim: this is, very likely, the most delicious dish I have every cooked. Seriously. In the last 19 years of cooking, I think that I have never, every made anything this delicious. This black pepper tofu recipe from Plenty involved fried tofu, butter, shallots, red chilis, 12 cloves [...]
5 Sep
Fresh Fig Tart with Sage and Gorgonzola
The Co-Op sent out a message this week about a stock of fresh figs from South Philadelphia. Many Philadelphians have fig trees, and I’m so jealous of them! I ran out and bout all of the figs, with which I made some delicious brandy fig preserves for my morning yogurt and the above tart for [...]
