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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 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 • 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
By Nick • January 21, 2010
I really struggled a title for this post. I went with the minimalist title, explaining exactly what you will find in this post, but I had a lot of other thoughts. Titles like:
- When Spanakopita Goes Wrong
- Good Dough. Bad Spinach.
- Greek Grandmothers Have It Tough
And the more subtle:
- On the Importance of Reading
Before I [...]
Posted in Failure | Tagged appetizers, failures, phyllo, spanakopita, spinach
By Nick • January 11, 2010
I’m a pretty huge Mark Bittman fan. I like his books (especially How to Cook Everything and Food Matters), and we have similar goals with our writing which is to get people excited about cooking good food in their homes. I guess you could say that he’s a bit better at it than me, but [...]
Posted in appetizers, Dinner, good food, healthy, spicy | Tagged appetizers, Dinner, feta, jalapenos, lamb, nachos, olives, pita chips, red peppers, sun-dried tomato
