Have I mentioned that I like pie? Sheana texted me to say that my incessant talk about the Pineapple Cream Pie (check out my Guessipe) and Long-Chee Pie (check out my Guessipe) that my cousin and I made for Chinese New Year had inspired her to buy pie crusts during her last trip to the…
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Super (Rice) Bowl
I love the Super Bowl. It combines two of my favorite things – food and football. It’s especially great to celebrate with foodie friends. Sure, we had all the usual suspects like beer, chips, salsa, guac. But then we stepped it up a notch with things like homemade crab dip (find my Guessipe here) and homemade…
Pasta Party
For Christmas, Katy got pasta attachments for her KitchenAid mixer. She invited a bunch of us to come over and make our favorite sauce to go with the three different kinds of homemade pasta she whipped up. Definitely my kind of party. Capellini First, she had capellini. These were the thinnest noodles. Alyssa made Marcella…
Gailan with Oyster Sauce
Cookbook Club – All Under Heaven; Land of Fish and Rice For January’s Cookbook Club, we celebrated Chinese New Year with two cookbooks – All Under Heaven by Carolyn Phillips and Land of Fish and Rice by Fuchsia Dunlop. I chose the Gailan with Oyster Sauce. Go to my Cookbook Club site to see the…
Closing Out the Year of the Monkey
Chinese New Year is one of my favorite holidays. It’s largely centered around food, and you go home with sweets and red envelopes full of money. Need I say more? I inherited my love of food from my family, so there is no shortage of good eats at our Chinese New Year feast. It typically…
Snowy Smorgasbord
What happens when a bunch of foodies go up to a cabin in the mountains for a winter weekend getaway? A lot of cooking and eating… oh, and some snow play too. Day 1 Coconut pancakes for breakfast. Some off-trail riding to work up an appetite. Chicken under a brick, chickpeas romesco, and garlic rice…
Chinese New Year Crafting
Crafting In preparation for our Chinese New Year Cookbook Club (check out the event here), a few of us got together for a little crafting session. We made these paper lanterns with roosters to give away as party favors, in honor of The Year of the Rooster. It was quite the production – cutting and…
Ravioli, Gnocchi, Marinara, Brown Butter Sage Sauce
Cookbook Club – Handmade Pasta The holiday season tends to be filled with gatherings that heavily involve eating (and therefore cooking). It’s a wonderful time for the kind of people who would join a Cookbook Club, but we were worried that people might need a bit of a break. We didn’t want to skip December’s…
Iron Chef X-mas 2016
Special Ingredient: Cinnamon! I get my love of food from my family. We’ve often been known to start discussing what we’re going to eat for our next meal, while still in the process of eating our current meal. We decided to make Christmas 2016 an Iron Chef X-mas – Special Ingredient: Cinnamon! Each participant could…
Gooey Cinnamon Squares
Cookbook Club – Smitten Kitchen Bonus Recipe Anthony made the Gooey Cinnamon Squares when we used The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook for our Cookbook Club (see all the dishes here). They were fantastic, so when my family decided that the special ingredient for our Iron Chef Christmas was cinnamon, I knew I had a good place…
Boozy Sundae Bar
So I go visit my parents for the holidays. The night I arrive, we are sitting around chatting after dinner, and we get onto the topic of ice cream (not surprising if you know me at all). I comment that Baileys is really good on vanilla ice cream. My dad responds that Amaretto is great…
Turkey, Mashed Cauliflower, Gravy, Butterscotch Pudding
Cookbook Club – Thanksgiving For November’s Cookbook Club, we decided to do a Friendsgiving celebration. Instead of specifying a cookbook, we left it open to give everyone a chance to test run the recipes they planned to make for Thanksgiving. I had planned to make mashed cauliflower and gravy, but ended up also making turkey,…