This is a pretty quick and handy dish, especially in the summer when everyone you know has a boat load of cucumbers to give away. Plus, using your chef knife to slice through those cucumbers as if they were butter, gives you a real sense of accomplishment.
Archive for the ‘Recipes, food, cooking and related items’ Category
Cucumber Onion Salad – Recipe
08/14/2010Simple Stuff – Recipes
08/14/2010Sometimes we cook simply because our bodies demand fuel. Then, we cook to eat. Here are a few simple recipes that feed that fuel demand.
Tuna Salad Sandwich – recipe
08/14/2010
The best tuna salad sandwich I ever had, was in high school. I could eat those every day, and often did. Unfortunately, I don’t have that recipe. Here’s another recipe that we use. One of the things that’s missing here is some diced celery. I didn’t have any at the time. But if you do have some celery, dice up about a half of a stalk and add to the recipe.
Spanakopita – the real thing – recipe
08/07/2010
It was a little bit ago that we reviewed Trader Joe’s Spinach Pie (Spanakopita) and found it good, but not as good as Mama used to make. Since Mama actually never made spanakopita, that left it up to me to find a recipe and see how Mama would’ve made it, if she had. So here’s Mama’s spanakopita recipe.
Cleaning House – gourmet hamburger helper
07/24/2010It might have been called pot luck in the past, but let’s call it gourmet hamburger helper now.
Trader Joe’s Chianti Artisan Salami – Food Review
07/24/2010
Having been low on wine for at least a month, I made a long overdue trip to the Trader today. While there, of course, it’s impossible to just come out of the store with what you thought you were going in for. So here’s a tasty extra which goes pretty good with the wine.
Cooking Utensils – Very Basic – Item 3 – Knife Sharpener
07/10/2010Assuming you already have a fork, spoon, knife, plates, some kind of frying pan and a basic pot of some sort, there are only 3 things that a real cook needs. This is the third. See other posts for items 1 (chef’s knife) and 2 (cutting board).
Surimi Bisque Soup – Imitation Lobster/Crab Bisque
07/04/2010Sometimes you just have to make do. Lobster bisque is great. But not many of us have a bathtub full of lobster ready to give up the ghost to a bowl of soup. (more…)
Trader Joe’s Spinach Pie – Spanakopita
06/12/2010It’s not like Mama used to make. But then, Mama never made Spanakopita.
The most amazing thing with this product is that it’s baked in the cardboard box it comes in. And I’m not talking about microwave baking. I’m talking about a real oven. Right in the cardboard box, and no flames.
Baked Mostaccioli – Not St. Louis Style
05/29/2010Having been raised outside of St. Louis, I had never heard of, much less tasted, Mostaccioli. Having first experienced Mostaccioli in St. Louis, I thought it was something someone made up because it was quick and cheap and assumed it was totally unrelated to any real Italian recipe or product. Since then, Al Gore invented the internet and Wikipedia can now educate me that Mostaccioli is simply penne pasta. However, in St. Louis, Mostaccioli is anything but that.
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