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I love when dinner is a success

16 May 2012 By Leave a Comment

This week I’ve kind of been full of fail in the kitchen. I just haven’t been home to cook, or been super busy and didn’t have time to prepare dinner ahead of time. I’m sure it was just poor planning on my part.

Anywhoo, yesterday I defrosted three packages of chicken legs with the intention of making this. Obviously, based on that sentence I didn’t do it. So I made it today. Let me preface, we’re not a strict paleo-eating household, but I can get behind the diet in theory. I <3 bread. And butter. And heavy whipping cream in my coffee. So full-on paleo is not going to happen. [Read more...]

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emeals.com

11 May 2012 By Leave a Comment

I know, I know. I was touting mealsbytheweek.com just a couple of months ago. But my cheap subscription ran out, and while I still love their system, I kind of like this one more. I get a nifty PDF I can print out ;) I absolutely have a file of them in my kitchen now.

eMeals - Dinner Done Upfront – I totally get a kick back if you register from this link:
http://emeals.com/amember/go.php?r=292582&i=l0

I do not get a kick back if you register from this link: http://emeals.com

So while this isn’t a sponsored post, I do get a kick back if you sign up using my link. But I use their menus more often than I don’t. So there you go.

That out of the way, I love this site! Yah, I can meal plan my damn self for free. Except it costs me more than I pay in time, so for weeks I haven’t planned or days I don’t want what I’ve planned, it’s fab! [Read more...]

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Has it been so long?

22 March 2012 By Leave a Comment

You know, when I ripped down my old blog (with some awesome insights in it, by the way) I had all intentions of posting at least once a week. I pulled down (but saved in PDF format) over ten years of inanities in lieu of, what I thought, would be something cleaner. Something fresher. Something that would help save the world. Or at least change it. Part of it. Ok, Maybe only my tiny part of it. It”s a start!

But no. While I’ve been rushing about from activity to activity, thriving on iced coffee (both bought and home made) and otherwise forgetting about anything outside of my tiny part of it, the world has gone on! It tends to do that you know. [Read more...]

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Cookbooks

18 February 2010 By 2 Comments

I am addicted to recipe books. My gram likes to remind me that when I was a kid I told her “if you can read, you can cook” and I still believe it today. You may not have the best technique in the world, but a good cookbook will take you pretty far in the kitchen.I love to cook. I love to bake. I love to feed my friends and family. I love to go food shopping. It’s a wonder I am not twenty times the size of the house. I think I have over a hundred cookbooks all told, and my collection just keeps growing. Most are dogeared and written in and well loved. Some were my mothers (whose idea of cooking was dialing the telephone) and some we my grams. Some I picked up on a whim and turned out to be a gem. Some I’ve never made a thing out of but they sure are a good read. Some are stored outside in the garage because my bookshelf is overflowing. I read them like books. Some of the newer ones are books that just happen to have recipes thrown in for good measure. Those are the best kind. [Read more...]

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Veganomicon – The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook

30 January 2009 By Leave a Comment

But Jenn, your raw! Why yes, yes I am. Most of the time. The rest of the time, I try to eat, you know, healthy.

I picked this up from B&N today. I am a cookbook whore. I am actually really pleased with this one (I also got 30% off the hardcover new book price, so yay!).

It starts with info about stocking a vegan pantry. Eight pages or so of stuff you should have, why you should have it, and what it’s good for.

Then it moves onto kitchen equipment. That is everything from knives (and they give inexpensive tips for good knives!), a cutting board, peeler, to a food processor, mandoline, crepe pan, baking sheets, and back to basics like measuring cups. It’s a good summery of a well stocked kitchen.

They have a brief intro to proper cooking & prepping terminology. Terms like braise and roux and slurry along with grate.

Info about lower-fat cooking. How to cook a vegetable. How to cook a gain. How to cook a bean. It’s packed with something like 50 pages of (what I think should be) basic kitchen info, written for the masses in easy-to-understand-ese.

Then it moves onto the recipes. Oh. My. God. The recipes. There are about 220 pages of recipes.

It starts with snacks, appetizers, little meals, dips and spreads. Spicy Tempeh Nori Rolls. Potato Latkes (um, that is what made me buy the book. Seriously. Any book that includes latkes and calls them latkes is a winner, hands down.). Curried Carrot Dip. Hummus. Guac.

Then it moves onto brunch. Brunch now includes home fries, chocolate chip brownie waffles and blueberry corn pancakes. Let’s not forget the crepes.

Moving on to salads and dressings. Ceasar, portobello, and macaroni salads. Dressings? Miso tahini, Sesame, Raspberry-Lime Vinegrette.

Sammiches. Yep, sammies. Thanks Rachel Ray. Really. Baja style grilled tempeh tacos. Black bear burgers (always a hit in my home). Snobby joes.

Mix N Match veggies, grains, beans, and tofu/tempeh/seitan. Tons of side dishes.

There are soups, casseroles (not your grandmas casseroles either) and one-pot meals (aren’t one-pot meals casseroles?). Pasta, noodles & risotto. Sauces & fillings. Breads, muffins & scones. Cookies & bars. Desserts. Who knew cookies & bars weren’t dessert?

Then, at the very end, are two pages of simple menus in case you need a theme and don’t feel like reading from cover to cover.

Loving this book. I needed to inject my meals with something, and a lot of these I already make, so it just involves changing the seasonings up.

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