I’ve been making yogurt at home. It’s easier than a lot of people think and cost effective! A quart of milk from Trader Joe’s is about $1. A quart of yogurt is > $2. Plus, I think it tastes better without all that funky stuff a lot of commercial yogurt has to keep [...]
This okra salad is so simple, it doesn’t even count as a recipe. I wanted to use up the handful of okra we got from our CSA box last week and I didn’t want to do a whole lot of cooking. For breakfast, I washed the okra, dropped it into a pan of [...]
On some nights, when I get home from work, I just want to veg out and play video games, or if I’m feeling especially lazy, just watch TV. Tonight was not one of those nights.
I don’t know what got into me. Maybe the rushing “oh crap, gotta finish this up before I leave” half hour [...]
On New Year’s Eve, I tried my hand at making noodles from scratch. I was inspired by a post from JustHungry.com about year-end soba. Noodles are lucky to eat around the new year in Asian culture because it brings good fortune.
I started with 3 cups of bread flour. I used this high gluten [...]
Yesterday, Herschell mentioned that he was making tonkatsu for dinner, which made me immediately think about katsu-don. Crunchy, battered pork cutlets drowned in sweet and salty sauce and topped with runny eggs sounded fantastic. Tonight, I present to you: Vegetarian katsu-don.
The BF made Beet Rosti with Rosemary today for dinner with a side of beet greens and spinach (not pictured). It was delicious even though it was hard trying to gauge if the beets were cooked or not in the cast iron pan.
