By Nick • March 3, 2010
When people ask me about Macheesmo, one of the first questions I get asked is how I don’t weigh approximately 400 pounds. I think I’ll save my philosophy on healthy eating for another post, but generally I eat a lot of fruit and vegetables with the occasional heavier meal.
I try to post delicious and interesting [...]
Posted in Dinner, Easy Stuff, Economical, Gadgetry, healthy, Learning to Cook, soup | Tagged barley, beans, cooking, crock pots, healthy eating, mushrooms, slow cooker, slow cookers, stew, stewed tomatoes, stews, tomatoes, veggie stew
By Nick • January 30, 2010
A few weeks ago Bets wanted to have a few of her law school friends over for a boozy brunch before classes started again for their last semester of law school and I was happy to oblige with some cooking. Brunch, after all, is my absolute favorite meal.
As tends to happen, we ended up having [...]
Posted in breakfast, good food | Tagged brunch, how to make quiche, mimosas, mushrooms, onions, party, quiche
By Nick • January 25, 2010
A few weeks ago Betsy and I had a few friends over and I decided to whip up a few pizzas to feed us. I haven’t posted on pizza recently (although I have in the past), but it’s one of my favorite things to make at home. While it’s pretty difficult to replicate excellent restaurant [...]
Posted in Dinner, good food, spicy, TIWSIMRIIHAR | Tagged american cuisine, chipotle, dough, italian cuisine, making pizza, mediterranean cuisine, mushroom white, mushrooms, neapolitan pizza, pizza, pizza dough, pizza in the united states, pizza party, prosciutto, sauce pizza, tasty pizza, white sauce
By Nick • October 12, 2009
I used to live in a group house with 4 other 20-somethings. One of the housemates (Hi Carolyn!) would make this great lentil stew in the fall that was filled with tons of veggies. It was spicy and fragrant and she would make enough to feed a small army. After a few times making the [...]
Posted in Dinner, Easy Stuff, Economical, pork, spicy | Tagged Chorizo, Dinner, green lentils, how to cook lentils, lentils, mushrooms, spicy, spinach
By Nick • October 8, 2009
I was excited and worried when Porter Braised Brisket won last week’s poll. I was excited because I would get to eat Porter braised brisket. I was worried because I wasn’t sure that I would actually have enough time to make it and post it by today.
I was right to be excited. I was wrong [...]
Posted in Dinner, good food, TIWSIMRIIHAR | Tagged beef, braised brisket, braising, brisket, Dinner, how to braise brisket, mushrooms, onions, porter, slow cooking
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
