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Friday, February 05, 2010

I love potstickers so I was curious when I saw this recipe for swiss chard potstickers.

I was a little dubious when we were mixing up the mushrooms and swiss chard. But they turned out delicious!

Even better, I used the leftover potsticker wrapper for dessert, and filled them with nutella. YUM!

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Monday, January 25, 2010

Detox is over but we are on week two of eating healthier. This week we are focusing on eating a "rainbow" of veggies and more whole grains. In regards to the whole grains I found a recipe for homemade multigrain English muffins. I never thought you could make your own English muffins but it wasn't too hard.

They are not baked! You cook them on a griddle, 7 minutes on each side. That's how they get that toasted mark on each side. I was so surprised I could make muffins with "nooks and crannies"!

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Friday, October 16, 2009

I always look forward to getting the Wegmans Menu Magazine in the mail - there are usually lots of good recipes. The fall issue has crock pot recipes.

Fall is certainly crock pot weather and we kicked it off with this slow-cooked beef minestrone. There is a little more to it than just tossing all the ingredients into the crock pot but you can still time it that you get home and it is ready to eat with little effort.

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Sunday, October 04, 2009

Both Aaron and I love beets. i picked these up at the Irondequoit Farmers Market. I had a beet salad at an Italian restaurant in Chicago that I wanted to recreate.

First I roasted the beets. This couldn't be easier. I wrapped them in aluminum foil and put them in the oven at 400 degrees for one hour.

I read a tip once that to easily skin roasted beets just rub them with a paper towel. It really works! I love the color of beets!

I couldn't find a recipe online for a beet salad that was just like the one I had in Chicago, so I sort of made it up as I went along. I sliced the cooled beets and arranged them on a plate with some baby salad greens. Next I sprinkled crumbled feta cheese and glazed walnuts on top. Then I drizzled some extra virgin olive oil and a balsamic vinegar sauce over everything. The sauce is just a quarter cup of balsamic vinegar and a quarter cup of sugar warmed on the stove until the sugar disolves and it is velvety smooth.

The salad was sooo good! We will definitely be having this again.

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Sunday, September 06, 2009

Last week we got a patty pan squash with our CSA vegetables. I had no idea what to do with it.

Then I found this recipe online from Sunset Magazine - Pattypan Squash with Eggs... very easy and tasty!

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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

We have been getting a lot of corn with our CSA veggies and I wanted to make something different. After a little poking around I decided on Mexican grilled corn.

I even got cotija cheese - a Mexican cheese.

It's pretty easy to make. Grill the ears of corn on the bbq grill. When it's nice and browned, roll the corn in melted butter, smear on some mayo, sprinkle with crumbled cotija cheese, sprinkle with cayenne pepper and then add a spritz of lime juice. That's it! Nom nom!

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Sunday, March 15, 2009

Today was my friends Sarah and Denis' annual St. Patrick's Day party. I was sporting my shamrock shades. I don't know why Tina and i look so serious.

There was corned beef and cabbage aplenty.

Aaron and I brought a bean salad my grandma gave me the recipe for. Here it is if you would like to try it out. If you like sweet pickely things you will like this. It's pretty tasty.

3/4 cup sugar, 2/3 cup apple cider vinegar, 1/2 teaspoon pepper, 1/3 cup oil, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 can green beans, 1 can yellow beans, 1 can kidney beans, 1/2 cup inch slices of onion.

Heat sugar, vinegar and oil together until sugar is dissolved. Cool and poor over beans. The longer they soak, the better they taste.

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Sunday, February 01, 2009

I read about bacon wrapped cherries on Ugly Green Chairs blog and thought it sounded like a perfect recipe for Kenn and Jenn's Super Bowl party.

It sounds strange but they were really easy and really tasty!

Besides the bacon wrapped cherries, the second highlight of the Super Bowl for me was watching the 3D commercials.

We picked up a bunch of 3D glasses at Wegmans. Stylin!

Oh and I didn't really pick a team to root for but these t-shirts are cute!

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Wednesday, September 03, 2008

We are loving the veggie haul we are getting from our co-op farm.

This is what we got today... see those two green peppers?

We made them into stuffed peppers for dinner. I don't even like green peppers, but I like stuffed peppers. I just eat the guts out of them and leave the pepper carcass behind. Cheese is also key.

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Monday, March 24, 2008

I saw a link to these ruby eggs in YumSugar. We have these back home in Pennsylvania, except they are called pickled eggs. They look freaky, but I like 'em. We had some for Easter dinner.

They are pretty easy to make. They are just hard boiled eggs soaked in red beet juice. That's all.

I guess "ruby eggs" sound nicer than "pickled eggs".

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Answers:

The song in the Stewie video is "New Soul" by Yael Naim. You might recognize it from the Apple Air commercial

Food your cat should not eat.

Food your dog should not eat.

(some food items to note... chocolate, grapes & raisins, macadamia nuts, mushrooms, onions & garlic, persimmons)

Here is the Dutch Baby recipe...

4 eggs
1 cup flour
1 cup milk
1/8 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons butter

Cut butter into a cast iron pan and heat in a 400 degree oven until the butter melts. While butter is melting, mix other ingredients together. Pull the pan out of oven, pour batter into it and return to the oven. Bake until puffy and browned, about twenty minutes.

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Thursday, December 27, 2007

recipe

My mom found this painted recipe holder shaped like a mini rolling pin. I think the design matches my candle carousels.

The recipe is from Max Brenner's.

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Monday, October 29, 2007

sign

What a great idea!

cider

I had to try a Cider Slushie of course. It was delicious! This was the closest recipe I could find online. I may have to experiment with this one myself.

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Sunday, October 21, 2007

applesauce

We made applesauce this weekend. We used our usual recipe... but this time we used a stick blender to mash up the apples. Very satisfying.

I put some of it in little jars, just the right size for taking in my lunch!

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Thursday, July 19, 2007

watermelon

Our CSA farmer told us he dehydrated watermelon and it turned out like delicious fruit leather. We have successfully dried bananas and apples in our food dehydrator so we were pretty excited. Aaron sliced up half a watermelon and it sat in the hydrator for 24 hours.

It tasted horrible. It tasted like rotten watermelon. Anyone out there ever dehydrate watermelon with better results? Or have other good dehydrating ideas/recipes? 

Bleah.

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