while it’s nice to have a stock of recipes in your head that you could recreate from memory, i haven’t reached that point yet. plus i love collecting new recipes and am constantly reading blogs, magazines, and scouring recipe sites for ideas. and in the last few months, i’ve also been using my iphone as [...]
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very often, we eat what we’re given – what’s abundant and available. i know this to be very true in the states, but it’s also increasingly the case in england. this is odd, considering the proximity to europe and all of the diverse foods found therein. so it came as a bit of a shock [...]
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one of the first dishes i made when i first started taking an interest in cooking was this “risotto” dish. i say risotto in quotes because it doesn’t involve any of the traditional aspects of risotto-making. you do not need to use the arborio grains, you don’t need to spend the better part of an [...]
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i picked up a massive (the size of a small pumpkin, not genuinely massive) squash at our local farmer’s market about a week and a half ago. it’s been sitting in my kitchen, waiting to be made into something delicious. tonight, its time had come. it was sacrificed in the name of all things autumnly [...]
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my little cold reared its ugly head today while we were out shopping, and after picking up some groceries for the next few days, i decided that i needed comfort food for dinner. i put together the following — all risotto dishes are comfort food to me, but this one has some really unique flavors. [...]
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