In honor of Cinco de Mayo coming up in the near future, I wanted to bring you all another Mexican food recipe! One of the things I miss most about living in California (aside from being close to my family) is the preponderance of good authentic Mexican food. There are, of course, good Mexican places elsewhere, but they’re significantly more difficult to find. Two places in particular on the east ...
Archives for April 2014
Ginger Sesame Turkey Meatballs in Egg Flower Soup
I’ve never cared much for chicken noodle soup but can’t really explain why. I like chicken, I like noodles, I like chicken and rice soup just fine, but there’s something about chicken noodle soup that just doesn’t do it for me. This Chinese soup, however, I remember eating as a child and I’ve always loved it. It’s sometimes called egg flower soup, from the way the egg flowers throughout the soup ...
Peanut Butter Carrot Cake for Dogs
Last week, we celebrated Phoebe's first "adoptiversary," and I baked her a little cake of her very own. I know it might seem a bit silly, since of course, she has no concept of any given date being of special significance, but I've always had a knack for remembering certain days as the anniversaries of big moments. Adopting a puppy was a huge step for me, and one that I had been looking ...
Penne al Boccalone
I may have thrown my dad’s cooking a little bit under the bus before, when I was talking about his Indian food phase. Truth be told, I learned most of what I know about cooking and baking from my parents, and they had a homemade meal on the table every night of the week for my brother and me while we were growing up, so I really had no right to turn up my nose or complain. That’s ...
Southwestern Sloppy Joes on Cheddar Jalapeño Biscuits
Sloppy joes are one of the few foods I can think of that actually originated in the United States. Given that most foods we tend to consume here are not, in fact, native to the US (probably owing to the fact that we’re a nation of immigrants), you’d think we could come up with a more distinguished-sounding or unique name – I mean, it’s not like we’ve used up all the good names on the hoards of ...