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Thomas Keller’s chicken potpie

In Food on 21 March 2010 with Comments Off

Yesterday was the first day of spring, and, naturally, we celebrated not with asparagus or a fresh salad, but with a hot, labor-intensive, calorie-laden, savory pie. I figure I deserve it after running nine miles. Shaun got me Thomas Keller’s Ad Hoc at Home for Valentine’s Day. (This is a beautiful, beautiful book, by the [...]

Fried chickpeas with chorizo and spinach

In Food on 27 February 2010 with 1 comment

There are some food combinations that I am a sucker for. I adore pork, I adore tomatillos and I adore Mexican food, and the combination of these three is my food bliss. Peanut butter and chocolate. Onions and peppers. I also happen to love chorizo, chickpeas and spinach. Sidenote: I try to get spinach into [...]

iPhone food

In Food on 21 February 2010 with Comments Off

Here is some food I have photographed with my iPhone lately. This is the carne asada taco, the shrimp sope and the pork tamale at Bone Garden Cantina. It was a little too much food for lunch, but I’m not complaining. I was finally able to make it to Antico Pizza, considered to be Atlanta’s [...]

Feb 12

In Food, Life on 13 February 2010 with 1 comment

With Valentine’s Day falling on a Sunday this year, yesterday, Friday, would seem to be the day to bring in a love-inspired baked good for my coworkers. Oh, and I always let Shaun try whatever I make. I am a sucker for cookie cutters, but I have gotten increasingly lazy about rolling out dough. Since [...]

Super Bowl food

In Food on 7 February 2010 with Comments Off

It’s time for another edition of Super Bowl food. Again, Shaun and I had a party but didn’t invite anyone, and our theme was Mexican. Why? What, you need an excuse to eat Mexican food? First, we had guacamole and chips. Pretty standard. Next, we spent a lot of time making pork tamales with tomatillo [...]

Skillet cookie!

In Food on 31 January 2010 with 1 comment

This may be the fastest internet-to-stomach recipe I have found. On Thursday night, I saw this recipe for a chocolate chip cooke in a skillet on Ezra Pound Cake. Being a sucker for anything cooked in a cast iron skillet, this went in my to-make queue, at the top. I made these to have for [...]

Risotto with Italian sausage, caramelized onions and bitter greens

In Food on 23 January 2010 with 1 comment

For Christmas Santa brought me Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2009, because, man, I love me some Cooking Light. They do such an amazing job with their recipes, and I’ve passed off the results as not light at all. Tonight I made this risotto with Italian sausage, caramelized onions and bitter greens. I loved it, and [...]

Kung Pao chicken

In Food on 9 January 2010 with Comments Off

I’ve been itching to get into Asian cooking for some time, and for Christmas, I got not one but two cookbooks for this. From Shaun I received Land of Plenty: A Treasury of Authentic Sichuan Cooking. I started flipping through this book and came upon a recipe for Kung Pao chicken, which honestly I was [...]

Restaurant resolutions

In Food, Life on 3 January 2010 with Comments Off

I don’t eat out that often. Well, I take that back. I bet I eat out more often than average, but if Foursquare is to be believed, I eat out less than other people/foodies my age. Often when I do eat out a blank is drawn on where to go, so I thought I’d compile [...]

Tamales

In Food on 14 December 2009 with Comments Off

[Talking about making eggnog from scratch.] Shaun: “I’ll make eggnog for our Christmas party.” Maura: “We’re having a Christmas party?” Shaun: “Sure.” Maura: “Who are we inviting?” Shaun: “No one. Just us.” Ha! We had our Christmas “party” this past Saturday. As a dish often associated with Christmas, we decided to try our hands at [...]