January 2011
9 posts
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guacamole + holiday recap
Another year, another family-filled holiday in L.A., another bowl of guacamole. Every Christmas (or Christmas Eve), my entire extended family packs into my parents’ house. We have a potluck that usually requires a large appetite and three trips to the buffet if you want to try everything. I usually bake something bite-sized (this year: oatmeal cookies) and make a quick and easy bowl of...
December 2010
8 posts
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sausage and potato pizza
More pizza! An article in the newest Cook’s Illustrated nudged me to make this. (Side note: this issue also has a bunch of tips for perfect cookies, which I will hopefully be baking later tonight.) Recently, my pizzas have been more puffy and focaccia-like than intended. The article tells you how to get thin, flavorful pizza dough: let it rise/ferment in the refrigerator for 24 to 72...
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pad see ew
Pad see ew is a standard item at Thai restaurants across the country, including my local takeout spot that got drunk dialed (and drunk visited) by me recently after an awesome afterschool hangout with my grad school comrades. I’ve already sung the praises of pad kee mao on this blog, and though it seems appropriate to dine on drunken noodles after three pints of Stone IPA (side note:...
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carrots with lemon, honey, mint, and feta
I am a sucker for multi-colored anything at the farmers’ market. Case in point: red, purple, yellow, and yes, orange-hued carrots. This year’s food issue of the New Yorker featured a story about root vegetables, and that pretty photo in the article makes me want to produce my own tray of beautifully roasted turnips, potatoes, carrots, celery root, radishes, beets, and other earthy...
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brussels sprout and pancetta pizza
It’s time for another cured-pork-and-greens pizza (previously: kale and bacon pizza). Slice has a guide for how to make the highly praised brussels sprout and pancetta pizza from Motorino. A New York Times review likened it to “a dog speaking BBC English” (this is a good thing). The restaurant version is delicious as hell, but the homemade version is pretty straightforward to...
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jacked up mashed potatoes
Have I ever told you how much I love mashed potatoes? Not so much the plain-white-with-gravy kind, but the skin-on kind with a bunch of other stuff (garlic, fried shallots, herbs, vegetables, cheese) dumped in. One of my go-to lunches at home is a few small potatoes, mashed up with sauteed or roasted vegetables (usually green brassica things like kale, cabbage, brussels sprouts, or broccoli but...
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rugelach
I learned at a very young age (thank you, Kindergarten Multicultural Day) that Hanukkah has some really popular food traditions. Latkes? Jelly doughnuts? Yes. I learned at an older age, after tearing through a gifted box of rugelach, that I really like these rolled up pastry-like cookies. And what do you know, rugelach may be a traditional Hanukkah food too. I did plain chocolate, chocolate...
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winter squash, carrot, and chickpea stew with...
Sometimes I walk into my kitchen and wonder, what the heck am I going to do with all these squash? And carrots? And this cabinet full of precariously stacked spice jars that tumble out sometimes? Then a recipe like this comes along and answers all three of these questions. We followed it, more or less, and added chickpeas (aka garbanzo beans or “hehehe butt beans!” according to me...