The Outlaw Chef
Mamma mia
Friday, February 15th, 2008We usually stay home on Valentine’s day, rather than risk overcrowded restaurants and food cooked by the B team. Apparently, we’re not alone — as evidenced by this thread on Chowhound! We enjoyed some champagne and I made chicken parmagiana, inspired in part by Lidia, but more by the tomato sauce left over from this […]
Can’t stop cooking with the Contessa
Monday, January 7th, 2008I thought I could stop after only two recipes but, as it turns out, now that I’ve started cooking from Barefoot Contessa at Home: Everyday recipes you’ll make over and over again I can’t quit. Garten’s recipes are just so appealing (the beautiful photos don’t hurt either), not to mention easy. I shook off my Secret […]
Stir crazy
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Regular readers may recall my dismay (read: irritation) at the tedium of creating a stock of wholesome Deceptively Delicious vegetable purees, so that they’re always on hand. When on earth would I use these purees? I wondered.
A kale of two soups
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Let’s get back to Deceptively Delicious and yesterday’s repast of meatball soup (hidden ingredients: carrot and sweet potato). As you can see from the photo above, author Seinfeld’s version has pasta and meatballs in a pureed tomato soup. Fair enough for picky eaters, but a little boring for the rest of us.
Pineapple pie
Friday, November 16th, 2007What do you give to an 87-year-old man who has everything? While planning a trip to visit Chris’s grandparents in State College, I cooked up the idea (ha ha) of baking them a pie. Chris’s father reminded me that Grampy likes, nay, loves, nay, ADORES pineapple pie… and thus another culinary investigation was launched.