I recently made a very, very good yam and swiss chard gratin from Smitten Kitchen. I also recently made a pork loin with fruit stuffing and a chipotle sherry cream sauce from a restaurant cookbook. The fruit stuffing was delicious and the sauce was amazing but altogether the pork loin dish managed to be simultaneously…
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Simple Swiss Chard
I have posted this recipe before. The first time, it was buried in a very long rant about home-made mayonnaise and it occurs to me that not everyone who might like this excellent, simple recipe is as interested in home-made mayonnaise as I am. Also, this is probably my favourite food. It is definitely the…
Spinach Salad with Fuyu Persimmons, Green Beans,Toasted Almonds and Spiced Vinaigrette
Persimmon is a new fruit to me. They have a short and highly celebrated season in the very late fall and there are two kinds that are available in NYC right now. Fuyu Persimmons are squat and pale orange and are eaten when they are still firm and can be sliced like an apple. Hachiya…
Chicken baked with Prunes, Capers and Green Olives
This is adapted from a very famous recipe called Chicken Marbala. It was the signature dish of the Silver Palate, a wildly popular catering company in New York in the 1980s that published two wildly popular cookbooks. If you are someone who cooks food for decadent parties, I cannot recommend these two books strongly enough….
Easiest of the Easy: Lentils Monastery Style with New-style Southern Cornbread
Well…. I’m still struggling with the fact that working in a commercial kitchen; however excellent, fruitful and fulfilling, diminishes my desire for cooking at home. Tonight I’m trying to convince myself that cooking is easy and satisfying by making two of the easiest and yummiest dishes in my repertoire. They are Monastery-style Lentil Soup and…
Pork Chops with Boozy Jam Pan Sauce
This is a quick, simple, adaptable dish that I make it a lot when I get busy. You brown some pork chops and then make a pan sauce with a bit of booze…
Cheap eats- Brazilian Black Bean Soup and Pineapple Mint Salsa
I am a freelance arts educator. I usually spend the September hussling work and start teaching a bit in October. However, I do not get paid for any of my work until sometime in November.
Erin’s Marmalade and Sweet Almond Custard tart (gluten-free)
When I first had to adopt a strict gluten-free diet I was very, very angry. I didn’t have a choice, because I had become so sick, but I was not at all happy about it.
Red Snapper Hash
During college, and for a few years after, I worked for a fashion designer. In general I did not fit in well in the fashion world, partly because I talked to much about food and upset my dieting co-workers.
Rima’s Gingered Chickpeas with Eggplant, Spinach and Tomato
Chris and I decided that we would serve an Indian dinner to our travel wary guests the night before our wedding.
Big Sis Little Dish 