I mentioned about a month ago that posts would be sparse around here as I finish up my cookbook, but as time slips by and especially over the past few weeks, I realize that I just cant keep up with everything that's going on right now. Something has to give, and the only way I can work it is to stop posting here for a bit. The way things are going right now, I work about 40 hours week, have a few other writing obligations, cook and write for the blog, and when I do finally sit down to write for the book, I end up just falling asleep or something. I could just do what some other food bloggers do, and post only a few times a month, but it's just not the way this blog works, and not the way I operate. It's all or nothing around here. I love writing recipes for you guys more than anything else that I do, so it sucks to have to stop and it was a tough decision, but believe me, when you see the awesomeness of this cookbook, I hope all will be forgiven! In the meantime, you can follow me on twitter, cook something from my endless archives, or just wait a month till I'm back! See you all June 15th!
Fried little rings of potato bacony goodness. This was the first thing I ate after my 3 month diet ended about a month ago and it was fantastic. Check out the Loaded Potato Rings on Tablespoon
The premise of this dish was to to create a textural study between 3 different gummy ingredients, braised octopus, potato gnocchi, and korean rice cake. All 3 of these things can remind me of each other, so I thought it would be fun to put them all together in a korean flavored sauce. It came out pretty tasty in the end, but I don't feel that I fully achieved what I was going for. The main issue was the size differences between the 3 main ingredients. I was aiming to make them all a similar size and shape but failed. Regardless, if you like octopus you will enjoy this dinner, but on a normal night I would make it with either gnocchi or rice cake, and not both.
It's a perfect little side dish, loaded with ancient grain goodness and tender veggies. This almost tasted like a healthy version of broccoli cassarole. Try my Cheesy Broccoli Quinoa on Tablespoon
Around this time every year, I send out a mix to a bunch of friends, and this year I decided to share it with all of you. All of these songs are from 2013 releases and would be a great soundtrack for cooking, hanging out, BBQing, sitting by the pool, or any of the other enjoyable things you will be doing in the next 5 months.
Wallpapers guys! What I do these days is just put all of my favorites into a folder and have windows rotate through them and change every half hour or so. At this point, I have an insave amount of these in the archives. Please don't use these commercially without asking. If you want to use these on your smartphone, browse to the 1024X768 option from your phone and choose 'set as wallpaper'. And as always, let me know if you end up using any of these!
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I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for your concern and well wishing the past few days. All my friends and family are safe. As many of you remembered, I have mentioned having a good time at the Boston Marathon in past years. We were in fact out and about this past Monday, mostly on Beacon st and the Fenway area, and about a mile from the finish line when the shit went down. Enough has been said about the horrific events of that day, so I am not going to add it it, I just wanted to mention that I am proud of the first responders and quick charitable instincts that my city has shown in crisis.
Back to business as usual around here, starting with this delicious Green Chile Chicken on Tablespoon
We needed cocktails for our arrested development party, so we devised some clever drinks inspired by our favorite moments and characters from the show. I had a lot of fun all week with these posts, and I hope you guys enjoyed reading them as much as I liked writing them! Without further ado, the drinks.
Fried Cheese... with club sauce. Popcorn shrimp... with club sauce. Chicken fingers... with spicy club sauce! I had no idea what club sauce was, but I imagined it to be like a cross between bbq sauce and cocktail sauce. The internet didn't really help me in figuring out what it was, so I just made it how I wanted it to be. Honestly I thought the sauce was awesome, but the people I was with apparently don't really like horseradish, so they didn't enjoy the sauce as much as I did. I probably should have asked them before I dumped a bunch of horseradish into the sauce!
There's always money in the banana stand! I couldn't make it down to the big yellow joint, so I thought it would be fun to make a few frozen bananas. I'd never had a frozen banana before this and I was pleasantly surprised by how tasty but also simple and healthy(for a dessert) it was. I just used a simple chocolate ganache and some peanuts for the coating as it was my first time, but you could really get crazy with this idea and make all sorts of different topping combos.
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