By Nick • January 13, 2010
Welcome to Macheesmo! If this is your first time here, you might want to learn about Macheesmo! Also, I encourage you to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for reading!I’ve had some pretty intense posts over the last few days (Review of Eating Animals and a post with excellent comments On Food Labels). So I [...]
Posted in Grilled Cheese Trials | Tagged garlic, grilled cheese, mozzarella, no knead bread, olives, roasted garlic, sun-dried tomato
By Nick • December 2, 2009
One of my absolute favorite ways to relax is to take my time cooking a really nice dinner on a weekend. I’m so frequently rushed to bang something out between work and blogging and watching re-runs of The Office that I sometimes forget how relaxing it can be to take the time to enjoy the [...]
Posted in Dinner, good food, salad, Side dishes, spicy | Tagged beet salad, beets, Dinner, garlic, hanger steak, mashed potatoes, peppercorns, pink peppercorns, steak
By Nick • November 11, 2009
Buying fresh herbs always stresses me out. I feel like they are pretty essential in some dishes and really add a ton of flavor that’s sometimes hard to replicate with dried herbs. There are normally two problems when I buy them though. First, they are incredibly expensive. Most herbs are weeds. Or trees. How is [...]
Posted in chicken, Dinner, Easy Stuff, Economical, good food, Pantry | Tagged basil, chicken, Dinner, freezing stuff, garlic, olive oil, pasta, pesto, pine nuts
By Nick • September 30, 2009
I had one of those weekends last weekend where I ate too much junk food and drank too much booze and come Sunday night I needed to hit the reset button on my body.
For me, hitting that button usually means drinking an absurd about of water and making a really nutritious salad that I can [...]
Posted in Dinner, Easy Stuff, good food, healthy, salad, Side dishes | Tagged garlic, healthy wheat berry salad, peppers, roasted garlic, roasted peppers, salads, wheat berries
By Nick • September 14, 2009
My mom bought Betsy a subscription to this magazine called Body & Soul last year. It has tons of tips about yoga and working out along with productivity tips like how to get better cuticles and save your marriage at the same time. It’s kind of an all-purpose clean up your life magazine I guess.
Ok. [...]
Posted in Dinner, healthy, pasta | Tagged garlic, ginger, how to cook soba, peas, scallions, soba noodles, spinach, tofu
By Nick • September 10, 2009
I really struggled with what to make when a Baked Dip won the poll last week. I know a few very good baked dips, but I feel like a lot of people kind of know all of the same baked dips. I wanted to try something a bit new.
I had some potatoes left over from [...]
Posted in appetizers, Easy Stuff | Tagged appetizers, bacon, baked dip, cream cheese, dip, garlic, potatoes, scallions
