Recipes
A Healthy Fruit Dessert
Here’s a healthy alternative for dessert: Vanilla Yoghurt with Strawberries and Blueberries.
Osso Buco
I’ve been cooking a lot of heavy dishes the past few days. ‘Tis the season for all those rich recipes to come out and Osso Buco served over plain-boiled polenta sounds perfect for another cold, snowy day in Colorado…. Yesterday morning, Spouse and I went up to Denver and drove through the beautiful and cold [...]
Old Fashioned Chicken Noodle Soup
Lovely weather we’re having in Colorado…light snow and single-digit cold since yesterday and into the middle of next week! Perfect night for a bowl of Chicken Noodle Soup. My recipe is based on Jeff Smith’s Chicken and Noodles from “The Frugal Gourmet Cooks American” cookbook. It’s a lovely, comforting soup with thyme and sage. [...]
Shrimp Garlic Pasta
Food allergies are a terrible thing to live with, especially if it’s shrimp and crustaceans you cannot eat anymore! Does one really have a choice when the last lobster meal I had sent me to the emergency room half dead? Goodness, but hat meal was worth it…. Spouse loves shrimps. He has a nose like [...]
Indonesian Oxtail Soup
Sop Buntut is one of those favorite Indonesian dishes of mine, which I have never tried to cook before. Now that I have this blog, I thought it would be a good idea to to try cooking Indonesian dishes. I lived for a very short time in Jakarta years ago and experienced real culture shock [...]
Pre-Valentine’s Day Lamb Stew
A stew is always considered comfort food. It’s best eaten when you’re curled up in your barcalounger on a cold, snowy winter’s night…with a wood fire slowly ablaze in the fireplace. Darn, weathermen predicted today would only be cloudy in Colorado! But it’s still going to be cold tonight…mmm. But, (“but” can sometimes be good) [...]
Deep Dish Apple Pie
There’s nothing I will cook that can bring as big a smile to Spouse’s and Stepson’s faces more than Deep Dish Apple Pie. It’s actually funny how I’m the one with memories of mother and homemade apple pie. Anyone would guess I’d have memories of my mother and rice cakes, me being the Asian in [...]
Apple Dumplings
For a change, I decided to stray from the usual Apple Pie and made some Apple Dumpings using Rome apples a few weeks ago. This was my first time to cook with Rome apples and I was pretty impressed with how the apples held up in the baking process. I love the [...]
Steak Dinner
This was the Steak Dinner we had last night, with a few of the ingredients I used to prepare the meal. I have to admit, the steak was not perfectly medium the way I planned it….more medium-well, which is not all that perfect for a piece of good steak. I used a little under a [...]
Corned Beef Sandwiches
We’re a bit busy today so I just made some Corned Beef Sandwiches for lunch. They’re good ones though. I used Sara Lee Corned Beef Slices from the supermarket for my sandwich meat. The bread is Orowheat’s Oatnut bread with lots of whole grains. I also use a mix of horseraddish and mayo for [...]
German-Style Dinner
Dinner tonight was a German-style meal any Greta or Liezl can be proud to call their own. Unfortunately, veal was not available at the commissary this week so I had to subsitute my wiener schnitzel with breaded pork chops. But red cabbages are always available in any supermarket and that was enough to build on [...]
Pasta Fazool
Two years ago, Stepson gave us “A Goomba’s Guide to Life” by Steven R. Schiripa. Schiripa is better known as Bobby Bacala of HBO’s The Sopranos. Spouse and I really enjoyed that book and the show. Since Spouse grew up in New Jersey and his grandparent’s and parent’s last home was just a few blocks [...]