Appetizers

White Bean and Garlic Dip and the Yucky Side of Moving…

May 27, 2011

Clive looks as if he’s pleading for you to take him away from us. I can’t say that I blame him. The boxes have completely taken over the house and it’s stressing poor Clive out. The cats on the other hand love it, and every box has dents in the middle where the cats have [...]

6 Comments

Read the full article →

Our Last Twenty-Something Easter

April 25, 2011

Kind of a foreboding title eh? It’s true though, we’ll both be thirty the next time Easter rolls around. And as kind of detached, non-committal, sans-religion twenty-somethings, I’m always afraid of the year we’ll finally lose the ability to slip through the cracks of these holidays undetected. With family out of town and no kids [...]

0 Comments

Read the full article →

My First Loaf! Crusty Portuguese-American Yeasted Cornbread (Pao de Milho)

January 10, 2011

I know I’m a little late, but I finally knocked out one of my resolutions from 2010. I baked my first loaf of bread this weekend. Now, I’ve baked bread stuffs before, but it has been limited to pizza crusts, quick breads, and easy dinner rolls. This was my first foray into REAL bread, and [...]

5 Comments

Read the full article →

Cleaning Up our Snack Act: Light and Creamy Crab Salad on Endive

January 6, 2011

Even though I’m proud to say we’ve eliminated a lot of processed food from our diet, one of the main areas we still tend to lapse and indulge in it is snacks. We really only treat ourselves to snacks on the weekends, but when we do, it’s chips and crackers with some of Neil’s stash [...]

2 Comments

Read the full article →

Vegan Creamy Broccoli Salad and No More Dark Photography!

December 6, 2010

This weekend we finally picked up the much-anticipated external flash (the Nikon SB-600) for our D90 (thanks to Neil’s brother Alex). It was long past due. The stress of taking food pictures when you have a dark kitchen and it gets dark at before 5 was increasingly frustrating. We had tried different techniques and placement, [...]

3 Comments

Read the full article →

Easy and Fast: Baked Jalapeño Poppers

November 11, 2010

I think more often than not (and I’m as guilty as anyone mind you), people overlook spicy peppers as always the “part” but never the “whole.” They’re something to be used to enhance something else, but never appreciated for how well they stand up on their own. I think this is because while they have [...]

2 Comments

Read the full article →

Sweet Potato Garlic Knots for the Narcs

November 9, 2010

Because we were in St. Louis all day Saturday, I didn’t get around to making these until early Sunday afternoon. If you know us in real life you know that we live in an interestingly diverse neighborhood. I say that because nearly every facet of humanity is somehow represented in “Andersonville,” which encompasses several city [...]