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By Nick • February 17, 2010
As some of you may know, I try to make a loaf of bread once a week. For the last year or so I’ve been making no knead bread as my go-to loaf. Betsy and I use this for sandwiches or toast throughout the week or just to snack on. Even though I completely love [...]
Posted in appetizers, baking, Easy Stuff, good food, Stuffing Stuff | Tagged appetizers, baking, bread, breads, cheese, cheese bread, food and drink, no knead bread, olive oil, pecorino, pecorino cheese, proofing
By Nick • February 15, 2010
Have you ever had an idea so great that you’re positive that someone else must’ve also had the exact same idea? That happened to me recently when I was walking home from work. Earlier that week I’d finished my Spanakopita but wanted to experiment more. So I came up with an idea for an open-faced [...]
Posted in appetizers, Dinner, Easy Stuff, good food | Tagged american cuisine, appetizers, cuisine, feta cheeses, greek cuisine, mediterranean cuisine, mozzarella, mozzarella cheeses, olive oil, pastry, phyllo, phyllo dough, pizza, rachel ray, spanakopita, spanakopizza, spinach
By Nick • February 10, 2010
There are a few things you should know before you get too far into this post. First, I’m pretty bad at the scientific method. In fact, I don’t exactly even know what it is. I’m not a scientist and have never claimed to be one. So when I try to “test” something, I’m sure my [...]
Posted in appetizers, baking, Economical, Failure | Tagged baked fries, fries, how to bake fries, potatoes, sweet potatoes
By Nick • February 4, 2010
I was actually kind of shocked that “something spicy” won last week’s poll. I figured that something fried would win for sure given that it’s for the Super Bowl. Shows you what I know!
My requirements for this dish were pretty simple. I wanted something that I could eat with my hands, that was super-spicy, and [...]
Posted in appetizers, Dinner, Easy Stuff, Fish, spicy, Stuffing Stuff | Tagged appetizers, cayenne, cheese, corn tortilla, cuisine of the southwestern united states, cuisine of the western united states, Dinner, guacamole, mexican cuisine, paprika, quesadilla, quesadillas, red pepper, shrimp, shrimp quesadilla, shrimps, spicy shrimp, sprimp, super bowl, Superbowl, tex-mex cuisine
By Nick • February 3, 2010
As luck would have it, our heat went out in our apartment in the dead of winter during a blizzard because when else does your heat go out? Not that the heat going out is the worst thing in the world. You get out the blankets and tea kettles and make it work.
The other thing [...]
Posted in appetizers, Dinner, Easy Stuff, Economical, healthy, soup, spicy | Tagged bean soup, guacamole, kidney bean soup, kidney beans, paprika, soup
By Nick • January 28, 2010
Let the record clearly show: I was not defeated by spanakopita. After my abysmal failure last week, I bounced back, re-grouped, read about 20 different recipes, bought a bunch of spinach, and tackled it with a fresh pack of phyllo dough and a fresh attitude.
Just to show spanakopita who’s boss, I decided to make two [...]
Posted in appetizers, Dinner, good food, Stuffing Stuff | Tagged appetizers, butter, dill, feta, feta cheeses, greek cuisine, how to make spanakopita, middle eastern cuisine, olive oil, pastry, phyllo, phyllo dough, ricotta cheese, spanakopita, spanakopita recipe, spinach, spinach pie
