Here’s a healthy weeknight dish for you…
My mom-in-law made it over the holidays and it was so easy and tasty that I nabbed the recipe and whipped it up for dinner as soon as we got home. It’s super easy and yields a good amount of food that reheats nicely (if you’re into leftovers…which I am).
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I’m obsessed with Pinterest. I heard about a few months ago but I didn’t check it out until my sister encouraged me to do so over the holidays. It’s basically a virtual bulletin board; find an image of something that sparks your interest online and save it by “pinning” the image to a categorized board. It’s also a community where you are able to connect with other Pinterest users. The social networking aspect of it allows you find and share all of those nifty things you see on blogs and websites. The pin links back to the original source. A lot of people use it to plan weddings and other design projects and to collect ideas (for gifting, organization tips, decoration schemes, DIY inspiration, etc). I’ve found a lot of great recipes and food inspiration (see the board Mmmmm) but I’m apparently most interested in designing my imaginary life (refer to board My Someday House).
You can peek at my boards by clicking the little red button on the top lefthand side of this site. If you are already a Pinterest member, feel free to follow me and I’ll follow you back. If not, you can e-mail me and I’ll send you an invite. Otherwise you can request an invite from Pinterest but I think there’s a waiting list. Oh, and it’s free.
I’ll probably be referring to Pinterest in upcoming posts…so now you’ll know what I’m talking about 
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I made this over the weekend because I had a sudden and inexplicable/out-of-the-blue craving. Plus it was Larry’s fourth birthday. In his honor, I was going to put paw prints in the “mud.” It didn’t work out. He was pretty mad about it (see above photo). He was also angry about not being able to taste it. I don’t blame him. It’s AMAZING. The last time I had this stuff was probably early 1990-something at a potluck or birthday party of some sort. It was served in a plastic pail with gummy worms. I’d forgotten that it’s one of my favorite things to eat in the whole world.
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Hellooo…is anyone still there?
I hope you all had a great holiday season…and an awesome Fall…and a nice summer. I’ve been a bad, bad blogger…but I’m back! I’ll be writing about food again soon so stay tuned. I would also like to let you know that I am now the proud owner of a CROCK POT! I think it’s going to change my life. Also, Larry says “hi.”
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D and I are on a budget because we:
a) are both actors (that you’ve never heard of)
b) don’t have trust funds
c) sometimes don’t have jobs
Many of our friends and family members who live elsewhere often wonder how we can afford to eat here; a place where The Olive Garden is crazy expensive and a box of cereal goes for 6+ dollars. I tell them how I believe that NYC has to be one of the easiest places to eat on a budget. Whether you live here or you’re coming to visit and want to save some cash, I hope you find something helpful here. These are a few ways that we manage to do some good eatin’ on the cheap:
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My oven died last week while roasting the potatoes for this salad. I should probably go ahead and get that fixed. Clearly, there hasn’t been any baking going on around here. For this salad, roasted potatoes aren’t even required; I think it’s just as tasty when you simply boil the potatoes. My sister shared this recipe with me a few months ago and I’ve made it several times now. It’s an easy, fresh and light alternative to your typical mayo-based potato salads and it makes a great summer side dish.
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I’ve had a rough week in the kitchen. I made some chocolate sandwich cookies (homemade Oreos) that tasted like salt. I ruined a perfectly good pound of fresh strawberries by turning them into dense, soggy cupcakes. And then I brought them to a party because I just couldn’t bring myself to buy something after all of that effort. At least they looked pretty (although I don’t have any photographic evidence to support this). Tonight I’m going to a cookout. After looking dozens of flag-cake pictures, I settled on a berry tart, an apple pie (super American, right?) and some patriotic potato salad. Here’s a preview (recipes to follow):
Red, white and blue potatoes! They were just begging to be turned into a 4th of July side. If we want to get technical, the potatoes were actually purple hued…but whatever.
As I was photographing this tart I thought, “Oh crap…star in a circle…what does that mean again?!” And then I googled it but there are so many variations of this symbol that the only thing you need to know is that in the form of berries on top of my tart, it’s an Independence Day decoration and that’s it.
I love this apple pie recipe. I’ve made it several times, but this is the first time I made my own lattice crust. When I opened the oven to bake it up, I realized that my oven was dead. Arrrgggh! Bad timing, oven. I’ll just have to tote it to Brooklyn and bake it up in my friend’s kitchen.
I hope you’ve had a relaxing and festive holiday and that your baking adventures are going better than mine.
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I’ve kind of dropped the ball on my blog posting lately. The truth is, I haven’t been spending a lot of time in the kitchen. As we move into summer, I’ll be doing less baking and more ice cream churning, popsicle freezing and salad assembling. I’ll also be checking out new places to grab a cheap bite and exploring new food trucks/carts and al fresco dining spots. Thus far, the focus of my blog has been on recipes and home cooking. As much as I enjoy creating things in my little kitchen, I’m just as passionate about trying all of the other amazing eats that this city has to offer (on a budget, course). Before I launched this blog, I had intentions of including a “favorite places/things to eat” section but I didn’t get around to it because generating content for the recipe portion was much more time consuming than I’d anticipated. While I’ll still continue to share recipes, I plan on expanding this site to include more “out and about” eating adventures…so expect new and (hopefully) exciting content in the coming weeks! Annnnd now onto the tart:
I decided to make this tart after scoring a few pounds of strawberries for around two dollars…what a deal! A tart seemed like an easy and delicious way to use up a bunch of strawberries that were hours away from biting the dust. After I failed to locate a recipe that looked simple enough for my lazy mood, I created this one. I thought it was awesome enough to share and I’ll be making it again.
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Two years ago today I was at the River Palm Cottages and Fish Camp in Jensen Beach FL. I woke up the morning of June 13th and frosted five dozen red velvet cupcakes that I’d made the night before (with the generous help of family and friends). A few hours later, I put on a big white gown and married my best friend (this would be D). Best day ever.
To prepare for the creation of my homemade cupcake-wedding cake, I baked up countless batches of red velvet batter in an attempt to replicate one of my favorite versions of this vibrant/southern/odd/somewhat mysterious and much debated cake recipe. I wanted my cupcakes to taste just like Amy’s Bread’s red velvet cake…and while they didn’t end up being dead-on, they were close enough.
I haven’t had the desire to make red velvet for two years (although I’m happy to eat it if someone else makes it). I became red velveted out the summer of 2009. I briefly considered making one in honor of our 2 year anniversary, but truth is-I just don’t feel like it. As a matter of fact, I haven’t been in much of a baking mood at all lately. It’s hot out there and I don’t want to turn on the stove. I’m all about salads and recipes with minimal ingredients these days…which brings me to these cookies.
There are 3 ingredients. They taste great. I needed something to take to a last minute Tony Awards-watching party last night and these did the trick. Today I made some more because I had some leftover ingredients and I wanted to play around with the recipe. Along with these flourless peanut butter cookies (which I also brought last night), these are the easiest and fastest cookies, ever. You do have to turn on the oven to make them, but only for 20 minutes or so.
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This recipe is all over the food-blogosphere. I spotted it while back and had been waiting for the right occasion to make them. A cookout invite and a sale on fresh blackberries were perfect excuses to whip up some of these tasty bars, which I’d describe as a cross between a cake, a cobbler and a fat, chewy cookie. Although I love a fresh berry pie in the summer, the portable shape of these guys makes them easier to transport and serve/share.
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