Subscribe:
RSS feed
cooking in a fast-paced world, with very little counter space
Weekly Photo Challenge : From Above
Again, things have been quiet from me over here. Things have been crazy lately, not only here in Boston due to recent events, but in my own life, in my work life, and no matter who I ask they will not put more hours in the day for me. Sup? How am I supposed to get this […]
Posted in: recipes
Boston, you’re my home.
April 15, 2013
My heart is sick over todays events downtown at the finish line. My thoughts go out to those who’s lives were taken, who were injured or have lost touch with their loved ones – may you find eachother quickly and in good health.
Posted in: recipes
Lemony Spinach Pasta
March 24, 2013
This is a simple way to use up a lot of spinach – I usually have the majority of a bag left over once I make the handful or so into a salad or something (usually the handful is the reason that I bought the bag in the first […]
Posted in: carbs, food shopping, Italian Food, leftover, leftovers, Lunch, meats, pasta, recipes, storing food, Summer, sunday supper, Vegetables, weeknight meals
salmon with cheese orzo
March 21, 2013
Three days into my challenge to stretch just under $100 as far as I knew how, and I decided not to follow my list. Well, not to a tee… I bought Salmon, and I got parsley and a few other greens that I was going to try to make this other salmon dish with, […]
Posted in: carbs, fish, food shopping, leftover, leftovers, Lunch, pasta, recipes, seafood, storing food, Summer, vegetarian options, weeknight meals
fresh pasta, cannellini beans, poached eggs, and wilted greens in a brown butter sauce
March 20, 2013
Since I challenged myself to shop for a LARGE amount of meals for the week and then tried to stumble through them as well as I could… I tried really hard to stick to the recipes I had chosen regardless of how well I thought they might be received – though I did try to […]
Posted in: carbs, eggs, food shopping, Italian Food, pasta, recipes, sauce/dip, sunday supper, Vegetables, vegetarian options, weeknight meals
chicken pot pie
March 18, 2013
With my lofty plans for triumphs in the kitchen this week, I thought I might start off with something that I knew would be easily stored, quickly reheated, safely transported to my little sister so she could simplify her college life and (hopefully) be focused on homework and not have to worry about a few […]
Posted in: carbs, chicken, food shopping, football food, freezing food, leftover, leftovers, Lunch, meats, party foods, recipes, storing food, sunday supper, transporting food, Vegetables, weeknight meals
an attempt at meal planning…
March 13, 2013
I have this habit when I get into bed, I pick up my ipad (regardless of if the tv is on or not…) and read myself to sleep, but sometimes I scan Pintrest and like just about everything I see when I’m falling asleep. Sometimes I just google the word recipe next to something that […]
Posted in: food shopping, recipes
spinach, anjou pear, feta and cranberry salad
March 11, 2013
Hi. My name is Julia, and I’m a Doritos addict. It can’t be that I’m old enough to not be reproducing taste buds as fast as I should, cause even though I feel decrepit at times, I’m not even thirty yet. I don’t like to categorize myself as a “picky eater” but when it comes […]
Posted in: recipes
chocolate chip pancake muffins
March 9, 2013
This whole winter thing has kinda got me down, it’s got my poor little plants feeling dumpy too. I suppose you could sit back and say you’ve only had about four snow storms and I would unfortunately have to agree with you. But I wouldn’t like anything about that statement. But I would probably counter with : Nemo, […]
everyday as valentines day
March 8, 2013
Valentines day is not usually a big deal in our house, it’s usually acknowledged, but doesn’t usually find us as excited participants. This year was no different, really. I made it home early, well, before 7pm. I decided I would shower, relax, and order in some dinner as a gift of no dishes for myself. It was […]
bacon brussel sprouts
March 7, 2013
My love of bacon usually knows no boundaries. I’ll try to add it to anything. Sometimes it works a little more seamlessly than other times. When you only have two or three ingredients, it works out pretty well. I had some brussel sprouts and had absolutely no idea what to do with them. As I listed […]
Chicken & Dumplings
March 5, 2013
The list of reasons why I don’t just sit down and type a few things up seems to be growing. First, we moved, and nothing was where it should be, or where I wanted it to be, and now that we’ve been here for about a month – things aren’t all in place yet, but the boxes […]
Posted in: chicken, food shopping, leftover, leftovers, Lunch, meats, recipes, Soup, storing food, Vegetables, weeknight meals
a distraction, and arepas
February 3, 2013
I’ve been MIA for quite some time, and for that I apologize if anybody has noticed… (Sorry, Aimee!?) My life has been on such a bizarre roller coaster for the past while that I have failed to do a great many thing, but especially one of the things that have recently taken so much enjoyment […]
homemade mac n cheese
December 4, 2012
I love baked mac and cheese. I like to forget completely about lactose intolerance and how upset my stomach will be with me later and focus more on how nice and creamy the sauce is, how well the cheese will crisp up on the top to give it a little more something to bite into. […]
Posted in: sunday supper, storing food, meats, carbs, pasta, weeknight meals, leftover, football food, party foods, recipes
vegetable rice pilaf
December 2, 2012
If you are anything like me, you over-bought for Thanksgiving in a bewildering way. I managed to shop for carrots and celery twice when my sister had asked me only to make on tray of stuffing (which only requires one cup of diced celery) none of which required carrots. I did have a serious stomach bug issue […]
Posted in: carbs, meats, party foods, recipes, rice, sunday supper, vegetarian options, weeknight meals
pom.brie.crostini
November 28, 2012
Sometimes I realize that I like something so much that I will make it in a strange time of day (appetizer/party food for lunch, anyone?) or go shopping precisely for the ingredients to make it at somebody else’s house so that they can taste it and see if they like it? I did that the […]
peanut butter cups
November 27, 2012
My love of Reese’s overcame me the other day. I had to have some. I buy chocolate chips and or baking chocolate when they are on sale, or when I have coupons. I had a few bags in the drawer with no real plan to use them. I got a metric ton of creamy peanut […]
Posted in: dessert, party foods
BBQ Chicken Pizza
November 26, 2012
One of the pizzas that has recently become one of the more popular and frequent orders for delivery is the BBQ chicken pizza. I wasn’t its biggest fan inthe beginning, but like many of the things I’ve tried in the last few years, instead of never trying it again, or deeming it inedible , I’ve […]
Posted in: BBQ, carbs, chicken, freezing food, leftover, meats, pizza, recipes, sauce/dip, storing food, weeknight meals
Autumn Salad
November 25, 2012
I’m guilty of not making enough salads, or really making any consistent effort to get fresh vegetables on the dinner table. I notice what’s missing every time, it’s the doing something I’m going to have to work on. But this past week I got tangerines for a drink that I forgot to make – or […]
sausage casserole
November 23, 2012
Yesterday was a little less crazy than some Thanksgivings can be. I had the usual marathon, running from one house to the next, not really enjoying as much wine as I would like to given the fact that I’d have to be getting back in the car not long after the glass was poured. When […]
Posted in: leftover, leftovers, Lunch, meats, party foods, recipes, Soup, storing food, weeknight meals
Limoges Oatmeal Bread
November 19, 2012
I have been searching and searching for the best sandwich bread recipe I could find. And (knock on wood) I’ve found it. This bread is from a little cookbook that my little sister’s school put together in 2005. It’s called Food Kids Eat, The Village School Cookbook. It was a project that the kids, their parents […]
reeses cupcakes
November 18, 2012
I may be more interested in making chocolate things, now that I have an outlet for them. I’ll try a bite here and there, but I still don’t search out chocolate things (save my absolute favorite candy that is hidden inside this cupcake) but most of the things I bake get packed up and delivered to people […]
glazed chicken
November 16, 2012
I made this “glaze” but then I didn’t… glaze anything with it. I drizzled it on top of our foods. So I suppose it’s a “dressing” not a glaze. This meal was a pantry/freezer meal, I try to keep enough meat in the freezer to make at least two totally different meals. I wanted to […]
Posted in: carbs, chicken, food shopping, freezing food, leftover, meats, recipes, rice, sauce/dip, storing food, Vegetables, weeknight meals
fresh pasta with prosciutto and peas
November 15, 2012
I, like so many Americans, am so guilty of eating way more than a recommended serving of pasta, and probably everything else, as well. Since we rarely eat out these days, and can easily avoid a 3-cup portion of pasta arriving on our table, I’ve been trying to figure out just how much I should be making […]
Posted in: carbs, cooking with wine, freezing food, Italian Food, meats, pasta, Peas, recipes, storing food, sunday supper, Vegetables, weeknight meals
gooey butter cake
November 14, 2012
This theme-y cooking stuff is for the birds! I’ve lost two weeks in a row now at fantasy football, and I blame it entirely on my wanting to be all matchy-matchy with London and fish’n'chips, and that the Pats played St. Louis in London, so I made this gooey butter cake. I really shouldn’t be […]
onion rings
November 13, 2012
I suggest that you stop what you are doing, and make yourself some beer batter – or for a possibly more reasonable suggestion, just add it to the next meal that you make…I would go with about half, or even a quarter of the amount that I made for the fish and chips that I […]
Posted in: appetizer, burgers, cooking with beer, football food, Lunch, party foods, recipes, Summer, Vegetables, vegetarian options, weeknight meals
beer battered fish n’ chips
November 12, 2012
I made fish and chips, ages ago now, but have been so easy distracted by work, people, laundry, paperwork, and sleep, that I haven’t been able to get myself, my camera and my computer to have some focused alone time to be able to load, crop, and write these ideas and meals down. I made […]
Posted in: carbs, fish, football food, Lunch, recipes, seafood, sunday supper, Vegetables, weeknight meals
baked mozzarella sticks and marinara sauce
November 11, 2012
There are a multitude of things that I adore to eat, but have never thought to make at home because I had always assumed they’d be too hard to recreate in a residential kitchen, or I’d be so disappointed by how different they would come out that it would be pointless. Mozzarella sticks were a […]
best homefries
November 8, 2012
I made homefries, and for the first time ever they didn’t take a million years to cook. They came out magnificently. I never could really understand what the trick was – aside from the times that I made homefries from leftover potatoes that were already boiled. These were just what I needed on a slow […]
brown rice and arugula pilaf
November 6, 2012
Without remembering how long it took to cook brown rice, I started making this at the same time as I started to grill up some steak tips (indoors) on my griddle/grill. First you start out by tossing the orzo in a pan, and make it nice and brown. Then, get distracted and forget to take pictures […]
newfie bread
November 1, 2012
We were lucky, tucked up on a hill here in Boston, so close to the the water -link to picture is 1-1/2 blocks away from my aunt and grandmother’s house! Watching the tarps on the Tobin Bridge being battered by the whipping winds, streets already flooded and trees coming down around me as I headed home […]
whole wheat rigatoni
October 28, 2012
With the impending doom of Sandy on her way, I’m unsure if I really should’ve taken the time to go to the grocery store before it became a mess – I don’t usually prepare for storms like the news would have you believe most of us do, but I don’t like to have my weekly shopping slowed […]
greek yogurt quick bread
October 26, 2012
Greek Yogurt Pound Cake makes two 8×4 loaves, or two 5×3 and one 8×4 loaves can easily be halved 300g white sugar 208g vegetable shortening 2 tablespoons water 3-4 large eggs 2-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract 454g vanilla (or plain) greek yogurt sift together 600g all purpose flour 1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt Sift dry […]
Posted in: dessert, quick breads
grilled cheese with buffalo chicken
October 25, 2012
I introduced my boyfriend’s mother to the buffalo chicken dip that I made this weekend. We gobbled it up while watching the oh-so-nail-bitingly-crazy Patriots game on Sunday. She hadn’t heard of it, and after helping me make it, seems ready to put it into the rotation for football Sundays or when they have a large […]
Posted in: chicken, leftover, leftovers, Lunch, recipes, sandwiches, sauce/dip, storing food, Vegetables, weeknight meals
simple oatmeal cookies
October 24, 2012
“Well,” I said “I can make oatmeal cookies, but I don’t have a damn thing to put in them. No chocolate chips, no raisins, nothing!” To this, I got a bit of a weird look. “Convenient. I don’t like oatmeal cookies that have stuff in them.“ Enough said! I was off to the stand mixer […]
burrito-fritatta-muffin-sized bowls
October 23, 2012
I have a love/hate relationship with leftovers. I feel like they should be used, not thrown away, if they’ll stay good long enough for me to figure out what to do with them… The hate come into play when I can’t figure out what to do with them and they sit and take up useful […]
Posted in: appetizer, chicken, eggs, football food, leftover, leftovers, Lunch, party foods, recipes, rice, storing food, Summer, Vegetables, vegetarian options, weeknight meals
steak tips
October 22, 2012
Steak tips are a great summer meal, but sometimes the weather, and my desire to wash dishes sync up beautifully and grilling can happen in October. I made smashed potatoes, because I still have not invested in a potato masher, nor did I ever think of putting the cooked potatoes in my stand mixer or […]
burrito with a side of whimsy
October 19, 2012
I am stuck in a rut. A rut full of eggs. While I would agree with the statement “eggs can be added to pretty much any meal” in my kitchen it means I most often am guided by poor planning, or distracted shopping, and now to “fill” for dinner, I’m adding some eggs. I’ve become […]
Posted in: chicken, eggs, football food, leftover, Lunch, party foods, recipes, rice, sauce/dip, Summer, Vegetables, weeknight meals
very inspiring, while very bad on following up on things
October 18, 2012
I was kindly nominated for an award this weekend. tuesdaynightboyfriend has the same casual writing style, the conversational style that I’m comfortable writing in (or try to, anyways…), and quite enjoy reading. Both of our boyfriends are heavily involved in fantasy football, and she has the dog I want to have. If you haven’t seen […]
Posted in: recipes
potato bread french toast with apples
October 17, 2012
When we went apple picking I got to take a bunch of apples home with me, we picked a ton of apples – per our mother’s request, enough apples for anything we wanted to do, pies, and to have apples for whatever might catch anybody’s fancy. We had that, and then some. Once I had […]
Applesauce Coffee Cake
October 16, 2012
I saw this recipe on one of my favorite food blogs, and I knew I had to make it. It looked delicious. I was a bit confused as to how the crumb topping ended up being on the bottom. But as long as there was a crumbly sugary part, really who cares if it ends […]
how to : applesauce
October 14, 2012
Making applesauce is so stupidly easy. There really is no good excuse to buy it at the store, unless you can’t get apples where you are, or don’t have a stovetop, crock pot, or even a hot plate for christssake. Also, if you continue to cook down your applesauce, you’ll be making apple butter. I’ve […]
artichoke and white bean fusilli
October 13, 2012
I bought the pasta attachment that I’d wanted forever from Target the other day. It, miraculously enough, was on sale the day after my birthday, and with free shipping (oh, yeah, AAA discounts, if you don’t know, you’d better find out…) so it showed up about a week or so after that. My kitchenaid mixer […]
Posted in: carbs, Italian Food, leftover, pasta, recipes, Vegetables, vegetarian options, weeknight meals
butternut and tomatillo ravioli with butter sauce
October 12, 2012
With winter around the corner. It’s time to roll out warm meals. The best part of this time of year is great comfort foods. One thing that never grows old is the fact that you can take something simple and traditional, and switch it up. One of my favorite things in the word is […]
Posted in: carbs, dairy, food sensitivites and allergies, Italian Food, pasta, recipes, Vegetables, vegetarian options, weeknight meals
salmon, herbed basmati and asparagus
October 9, 2012
I decided to try roasting salmon on top of slices of lemon. I heard somewhere that it makes the fish stay more moist while it’s cooking. It also is a really good use of already zested lemons. I had a few that were kicking around in the crisper drawer, and sans peel there are fewer […]
beef stew with sandwich bread
October 7, 2012
The average temperature continues to drop, we have entered the true beginning of Autumn; my personal favorite season for a variety of reasons, but above all it’s the best time of year to have good comfort foods enter the rotation again. It’s no longer too hot to bake whatever you want. Before it’s cooked at least 5 […]
Posted in: beef, bread, carbs, crock pot, dairy, football food, leftover, leftovers, Lunch, meats, recipes, Soup, storing food, sunday supper, Vegetables, weeknight meals
sandwich bread
October 4, 2012
Oh WordPress! How you’ve let me down the past few days. I’m sure I could spread my dismay across the AT&T wireless covereage area, software updates to the iphone, the fact that I’m too lazy to resize my photos, and a great many things that played a part in your not posting my words and photos as I wanted […]
Caprase Salad
October 2, 2012
I was talking to Aunty Cathy about our basil plants. She has a much more serious garden than I do… See example of mine below… She remarked that she was showing her friend how well they were doing this summer “see how the pesto is doing?” I too refer to my basil as its final […]
May 4, 2013
0