By Nick • March 10, 2010
It should be no surprise if you’re a regular reader around these parts that I enjoy spicy food. Normally, I turn to Southwestern food when I’m in the mood for some heat, but sometimes I’m not in the mood for something like a burrito or nachos.
These days I’ve been experimenting a lot more with Asian [...]
Posted in Dinner, Easy Stuff, Economical, healthy, pasta, spicy | Tagged asian cuisine, filipino cuisine, indonesian cuisine, japanese cuisine, noodle salad, noodles, peanut butter, peanut sauce, satay, sauce, singaporean cuisine, soba, soba noodles, soy sauce, spicy peanut sauce, vietnamese cuisine
By Nick • February 1, 2010
Believe it or not, I’m a huge believer that sometimes the simplest dishes are the best. A simple pizza, good chicken broth, and heck even well-cooked rice can be some of the best eats I know. That said, it’s very apparent to me that sometimes even those simple dishes can take longer than most people [...]
Posted in Dinner, Easy Stuff, Learning to Cook, pasta, pork | Tagged bacon, bowtie pasta, carbonara, eggs, how to make carbonara, leeks, pasta
By Nick • December 3, 2009
I kind of reminded myself of an infomercial when I put “Pound shedding pasta” on the poll last week. But that’s what people ended up voting for! Turns out it’s kind of hard to do because pastas are inherently carb-loaded.
I don’t really see that as a bad thing, but some weight loss people are crazy [...]
Posted in Dinner, good food, healthy, pasta | Tagged brown butter, gnocchi, how to make gnocchi, marinara, sweet potato gnocchi, sweet potatoes
By Nick • November 16, 2009
In my food letter a few weeks ago I promised that I was going to do something with chestnuts this month. I’ll admit that having never worked with them, chestnuts always just looks like mysterious little wood chunks – expensive mysterious little wood chunks. They were so worth it though. If you’ve never had chestnuts [...]
Posted in Dinner, good food, pasta, Stuffing Stuff | Tagged butter, chestnut ravioli, chestnuts, how to make ravioli, mascarpone, ravioli
By Nick • November 2, 2009
Chicken Parmesan. Chicken Parmigiana. Chicken Parm. Chicken P. I’m not really sure what the best name for the dish is (probably not Chicken P.), and heck even Tyler Florence calls it different things. He calls it chicken parmesan on Food 911 and then chicken parmigiana on Tyler’s Ultimate. Make up your mind T-man. As far [...]
Posted in chicken, Dinner, good food, pasta | Tagged chicken, chicken parmesan, chicken parmigiana, how to make chicken parmesan, mozzarella, parmesan, tomato sauce
By Nick • October 6, 2009
There are some foods that baffle me. I just have no idea how nature got it so right. Spaghetti squash is one of those things! Is it just coincidence that this lovely vegetable happens to break up into perfect little strands that resemble one of our everyday meals?
Could it be the sign of a higher [...]
Posted in Dinner, Ingredients 101, Learning to Cook, pasta | Tagged cream, Dinner, how to make spaghetti squash, mushrooms, spaghetti squash, spinach
