Lamb Kebab Recipe. Stuff on a stick, perfect for summer BBQs, and parties.
These Lamb Kebabs with a Mint Yogurt Sauce is one of those recipes that is easy and awesome for summer everything. Lamb Kebabs with a Mint Yogurt Sauce Serves: 4 Ingredients:1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil2 tablespoons tarragon, minced1 tablespoon thyme, minced1 tablespoon rosemary, minced2 garlic cloves, minced2 teaspoons cumin1 1/2 pounds boneless lamb leg, cut into 1 inch cubessalt and pepper to taste2 tablespoons vegetable oil8 wooden bamboo skewersmint yogurt sauce:2/3 cup mint, roughly chopped1/2 cup Greek yogurt2 tablespoons lemon juice1 tablespoon honeysalt and pepper to taste Directions: 1.
Soak skewers in water for about 30 minutes. 2. Scotch Egg Recipe. Hi.
Spinach and Ricotta Stuffed Shell Recipe. Pappardelle Pasta with a Roasted Cherry Tomato Sauce Recipe. Simple delicious pasta.
This Pappardelle Pasta with a Roasted Cherry Tomato Sauce is really beautiful. I feel like this is one of those recipes where you make it the first time you have a boy over at your house and you cook. Simple, no fuss, no screw up, delicious recipes. I feel like cooking for a boy for the first time, you don’t want to do anything that could totally bomb. Kiwi Capiroska Cocktail Recipe.
Spicy Blood Orange Champagne Punch Recipe. Hi!
(you can’t tell, but I’m furiously waving at you all with a really huge, borderline creepy smile on my face!) It’s Friday…yay! I could say something totally cheesy and awkward like, “TGIF!!” Creamy Roasted Tomato & Basil Soup recipe. Hi All!
The very first time I had REAL tomato-basil soup for the first time at The Noodle Cafe when I was about 12 or 13. This little gem is in a small suburb of Chicago (where I grew up) and to this day it’s still one of my all time favorite restaurants. There are a few reasons for this: 1) The food is amazing. Pumpkin Risotto with Seared Scallops. Maple Glazed Roasted Acorn Squash recipe. Kimchi Fried Rice recipe. Galbi Jim. Korean Style Braised Short Rib Stew recipe. So I’ve had a really busy couple of weeks, well more like a really busy couple of months…and you know what?
I’m tired. Really tired. Baked Egg Boat recipe. Breakfast is my favorite meal.
I like to drink iced coffee and watch the cream climb its way down the chunky ice cubes in a dazy before the caffeine hits. Baby Chimichanga recipe. It’s Friday…yay!
So I know I said that we would be jumping into our Super Bowl fry fest next week, but we got a little excited and couldn’t resist starting a little early….enter baby chimichangas. These little beauties are pretty great; small pockets of fried goodness with a creamy Sriracha-lime dipping sauce. Why are these chimichangas so special? Two reasons: 1) You can actually taste the filling! Home fries. All right, people, time for a confession.
This summer, for our third anniversary, our parents bought us a new set of pots and pans from the lovely All-Clad Master Chef 2 series. My last set, also a gift, dated back to 2000 and as much as I loved, loved, loved those Calphalon non-sticks with the clear glass lids, the nonstick was not only wearing off, I was ready to wean myself from it, and the annoying silicon-coated cooking utensils required to keep them intact.
I wanted wooden spoons and metal spatulas and better caramelization in my cooking. I love my new pots and pans, and they do everything good, heavy steel pots promise. Caramel? Almond-vanilla rice pudding. Can someone explain to me how we can boil some grains, like oatmeal, in milk with a little bit of sugar and mix in some dry fruit and it is called breakfast but when you do it to others, like rice, it is considered dessert?
These are the questions that taunt my brain when I wake up in the morning and realize all I want for breakfast is rice pudding but then force myself to eat “normal” breakfast food like oatmeal or an egg and toast. Or so I tell you. Squash and chickpea moroccan stew. Our first night in Paris in October, we had dinner at a great, inexpensive Moroccan restaurant in the 3ème called Chez Omar. The specialty is couscous, and the various stews you ladle over it. Alex had the chicken, I had the vegetables, but I hear we really missed out on the Royal, which is a big mess of meat. Served family style, the food was unpretentious, light and so healthy, I made a mental bookmark to try my hand at it when I got home. Which, being me, I promptly forgot about. What jogged my memory was a version of a Moroccan vegetable stew on Ask Aida on the Food Network last week. This is the kind of food that’s perfect for this time of year.
One year ago: GoulashTwo years ago: World Peace Cookies. Mushroom bourguignon. When it is as cruelly cold out as it has been this week, beef bourguignon is one of my favorite things. If there is anything better than a symphony of onions, carrots, red wine, broth and a scoop of tomato paste simmered for hours, I haven’t met it. I don’t want to meet it. I already know my favorite. Julia Child’s recipe was always my mother’s go-to dish for company and back in the day, the smell of it braising in the oven was enough to get me to reconsider my vegetarianism.
Whole lemon tart. Everyone has a favorite lemon tart, don’t they? I think of them as one those pastries that people obsess over to the point that crafting a great one is practically considered a higher calling. And I’d joke about this (okay, well, just a little) but if you’ve ever had a good, nay, great one, you totally get it. An awesome one will blow your mind. Cream cheese pound cake + strawberry coulis. Meet my new favorite pound cake. I have had this cake bookmarked for, oh, 100 years or so and while some recipes that I unearth from their 100-year queue are the kinds of disappointments that did not improve with age, this is of the opposite variety: Why did it take me so long to make this? Here, let me kick myself a few times. I’d argue that it was fear. Pound cakes are of British origin, dating back nearly 300 years and their name came from the fact that original pound cakes contained one pound each of butter (four sticks), sugar (two cups), eggs (eight large) and flour (four cups), with no leaveners other than the air that was whipped into the batter.
Watermelon lemonade. Cantaloupe salsa. Melon agua fresca. Nectarine galette. Cauliflower with almonds, raisins and capers. Raisin-studded apple bread pudding. Spicy caramel popcorn. Walnut pesto. Ricotta muffins. These muffins are a labor of love, which is what I think you are supposed to call things that take a bit more work than you’d originally anticipated. Arroz con leche (rice pudding) Rustic rhubarb tarts. Strawberry-rhubarb pie, improved. Thai-style chicken legs. Raspberry limeade slushies. Eggplant salad toasts. Perfect blueberry muffins. Single-crust plum and apple pie. Sweet potatoes with pecans and goat cheese. Roast chicken with dijon sauce. Meatball subs with caramelized onions. Crispy potato roast. Vermontucky lemonade. Strawberry summer cake. Sugar plum crepes with ricotta and honey. Roasted eggplant with tomatoes and mint.
Cumin seed roasted cauliflower with yogurt. Pear cranberry and gingersnap crumble. Carrot soup with miso and sesame. Italian Risotto Rice Salad. Rolo Cookies. Warm Milk-Chocolate Croissant-Bread Pudding. Strawberry and Mascarpone Pound Cake. Weeknight Chicken Stir-Fry. Honey Yogurt Panna Cotta with White Peach Puree. Chai Spiced Apple Cake. Peach and Basil Salad. The Darjeeling Darling. Big Apple. General Tso's Chicken. Iced Peppermint Green Tea. Homemade Oreos with Chocolate Beer Ganache. Strawberry-Amaretto Champagne Cocktail.
Cookie Dough Truffles. Spicy Shrimp Sandwich with Chipotle Avocado Mayonnaise. Limoncello. Fashionably Bombed: Mojito Monday: Strawberry & Ginger. Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake. Lemon Chicken Spaghetti Toss. Homemade Baileys. Lamb's Wool. Peppermint Bark Brownies. Carrot Cake Cookies.