No pics, but I think I’ve come up with an acceptable way to fake the canned fried onion thingies. J’s mom was here until Monday, visiting for Thanksgiving, and she happened to leave behind half a boy of Ry Krisp crackers. Crush up at least six of those suckers, and you have your crunch. Add […]
I was not raised eating green bean casserole on Thanksgiving. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that my mom has a problem with the idea of cooking by mixing canned goods together. I certainly do. But I had some green bean cassrole last year and discoverd that I actually liked it. I […]
I went to see some friends a couple of weeks ago, and one of the first things we did after arriving was cook. In fact, we made an entire Italian meal from semi-scratch. (In order to make a meal entirely from scratch, you must first create the universe.) J. kept saying he wanted to make […]
I was gonna get around to this anyway… someday… but since I had an actual request, I thought I ought to hurry up and post about this coconut rice. Like a lot of recipes in my Indian cookbook, it is a two-parter requiring both a saucepan and a frying pan. I routinely cut it in […]
Up until recently, it was so hot that I actually looked for ways to avoid turning on the oven. (Turns out that you can make baked tofu in a crock pot.) The weather let up a little this week, but not before the LA Times published a coleslaw article. And not boring old cabbage-and-mayo coleslaws […]
We’re obsessed with rice pilaf around here. Leftovers rarely last 24 hours. Because the rice-sauteeing stage is boring, and because I love the slow cooker, I decided to try doing it in the slow cooker. At first, I thought I’d only be able to do the sauteeing part in the slow cooker and then move […]
