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 • 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 • November 19, 2009
An artichoke dish was a heavy favorite in the poll last week, but I thought I would actually write two quick appetizers for this post since Thanksgiving is one week away! (I’m publishing nothing but Thanksgiving recipes until the big day from here on out so you can look forward to that!)
When I think of [...]
Posted in appetizers, Easy Stuff, Holidays | Tagged appetizers, artichoke dip, artichokes, baked brie, cranberries, cranberry relish, gruyere, spinach, tofu
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 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
