Dinner

Street tacos are like this elusive mirage of something that you know has the possibility of being incredible, but isn’t always easy to reach that level of deliciousness.  We’ve tried many versions of street tacos and never get it quite right.  We’ve used ground beef, …

Salads can make a great meal.  Especially when it starts to get warm out, or if you’ve had a lot of heavy meals or just been eating without a lot of fresh ingredients in your diet.  They often hit the spot.  I try to target …

Curry is something that I never really got into until later in life.  It always seemed so vague and broad of a topic.  Regional curries, colors of curries, powdered curries, curry pastes … where do you even start?  Aside from that, I hadn’t really eaten …

I’m always on the lookout for recipes that call for humble ingredients and use them really well.  Coq au vin, translated “chicken in wine,” is a traditional French dish.   I’ve only made coq au vin twice – once a white wine recipe and the second …

Week 2 of this 4-week series brings me to a recipe that I can say is actually mine.  I made it up with inspiration from a couple of different food experiences, but I’ve not seen this recipe on the internet anywhere, with the exception of …

All of us have recipes that we find and make over and over again.  They’re classic staples for our menus.  Recipes that we can return to and be just as pleased with as the first time we made it.  In this 4-week series, I’ll be …

At the beginning of the year, we sat down and wrote out our goals.  They spanned topics covering food, work, marriage, spirituality, recreation, fitness/health, finances, and our home.  Some are big and some are small, and some are stepping stones toward a larger vision that …

We love getting Thai take-out – it’s a treat.  Something about the sweet, salty, umami combination that is so satisfying, especially with fresh aromatics and chewy rice noodles.  We still do get take-out on occasion (Pad Thai isn’t our usual order), but we’ve come across …

When my husband and I were dating, I clearly recall sitting down at a local restaurant that had been featured on Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives where my now husband ordered meatballs.  They were big for meatballs – maybe slightly smaller than a tennis ball – …

A Pizza Story When someone asks, “what’s your favorite food?”  I’ll usually answer with pizza.  I subscribe to the mantra “there is no bad pizza, only better pizza.” I have so many pizza memories that deeply marked me.  The earliest were in Italy, where I …