I can’t believe I watched the whole thing!!!! Stayed up til the bitter end of the Super Bowl (or “The American Football Super Bowl” as referred to here), including post-game. In the UK. Till 3:30am. Being a bit bleary-eyed and sleep-deprived (we didn’t have the post-Super Bowl snow day that most of the US mid-west and east coast got), coupled with…
Enchiladas have long been my favorite Mexican food. But it took years for me to attempt to make them myself. Actually it took me moving to London and not having any decent, nearby Mexican restaurants to make them myself. Similar pattern with salsa. It comes in a squeezie bottle at our local Tesco….a squeeze bottle!. Enter my Chicago friend Lisa, who…
This is my deal with cookbooks. I have lots of them – over 60 – but I hate buying them. Probably because I figure I own enough already. (Sidebar: If you too own a gazillion cookbooks, I highly recommend subscribing to Eat Your Books. It indexes your cookbooks so you can search through them online for a particular recipe, by ingredient, etc.…
It’s time for a Top 10 List. Individual tastes aside; I’m going to share with you my personal top 10 pantry staples. Those go-to ingredients that are always readily on hand so that, even without a special trip to the grocery store, you can cook from scratch and avoid desperate dialing for carry-out (or take-away, as they call it on this side of…
Happy day after Thanksgiving!! Before I forget, if you find yourself post-Thanksgiving with an abundance of cranberries that didn’t make it into the sauce, you must bake these Cranberry-Pecan Muffins from Cooks Illustrated. They’re seriously the best muffins I’ve ever made. The toasted pecans are so good and with the tart cranberry and a streusel topping – yum!! Now back…
The concept of one-dish meals is brilliant: one recipe to prepare; includes your protein, veg, maybe even a carb. All together, one happy family. No side dishes required. However it’s typically only associated with casseroles, crockpots and stews. Nothing wrong with any of those, but it’s fun to occasionally mix things up a bit. These lettuce wraps do just that.…