Posts Tagged ‘cooking’
08/21/2010
Empanadas are filled Latino “pastry pies”. And that’s a misleading description in my book. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, here’s a picture below. What’s pictured is really more appropriately named, empanadillas (small empanadas). We can quibble about the name while we eat them, because eating is the more important thing. These particular ones are filled with a tasty ground beef mixture. We might destroy all the mystery about the name by calling it a pocket sloppy joe. But that would be wrong.
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Tags:cooking, empanadas, empanadillas, food, latino, meat pies, recipes, review
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08/14/2010
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.
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Tags:cooking, cucumber onion salad, food, recipe, recipes, vegetarian
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08/14/2010
Sometimes we cook simply because our bodies demand fuel. Then, we cook to eat. Here are a few simple recipes that feed that fuel demand.
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Tags:chicken salad, cooking, cucumber onion salad, food, recipe, recipes, sandwich, simple, tuna salad
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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.
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Tags:cooking, food, recipe, recipes, simple stuff, tuna salad
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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.
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Tags:cooking, feta, feta cheese, food, greek, recipe, recipes, spanakopita, spanakopita rolls, spinach pie, trader joe's
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07/24/2010
It might have been called pot luck in the past, but let’s call it gourmet hamburger helper now.
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Tags:cleaning up, cooking, food, gourmet, hamburger helper, making do, Oriental not-chicken with Italian-like vegetables over multi-nationality noodles, pot luck, recipe, recipes
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07/10/2010
Assuming 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).
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Tags:accusharp, amazon, cooking, ekco, food, knife sharpener, sharpener, utensils
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07/04/2010
Sometimes 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…)
Tags:bisque, cooking, crab bisque, food, imitation crab bisque, lobster bisque, mock crab soup, recipes, review, soup, surimi, surimi bisque
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06/26/2010
If I had ever looked ahead and discovered I’d eventually be taking pictures of cardboard boxes, I never would’ve bought the camera. But here I am again. First it was the box of Trader Joe’s Spanakopita, and now it’s a box of Trader Joe’s Eggplant Cutlets. But to make something good out of something bad (taking the picture of the box is bad, not the cutlets themselves), there are two very interesting things about the box. Read on.
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Tags:cooking, eggplant, eggplant parmigiana, food, marinara, recipe, recipes, trader joe's
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06/12/2010
It’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.
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Tags:calories, cooking, food, recipe, recipes, spanakopita, spinach pie, trader joe's
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