Monthly Archives: May 2011
Cashew (or Walnut) Chicken
Cashew chicken is one of my favorite dishes to order at Thai restaurants. I know that it is completely inauthentic, but the combination of sweet, salty, and spicy flavors gets me every time. It turns out that the ingredients are … Continue reading
thai curry with eggplant and shrimp
Thai curries are really fun to make. Unless you’re super hardcore about it, most recipes use prepackaged curry pastes, which you can buy at any Asian market and almost any grocery store (Mae Ploy is good). Then basically, you just … Continue reading
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roasted tomato salsa
I’m always on the lookout for a good salsa recipe. For whatever reason, I’ve always had a hard time making pico de gallo (the standard chopped salsa that you find in Mexican restaurants) and I could never get the seasonings … Continue reading
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chicken tikka masala
Sarah is gone for the weekend. My plans include: watch some dumb movies go to a sweet teacher protest tomorrow teach a class at Soundbridge where I will teach a bunch of 8 year olds how to make popsicle stick … Continue reading
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chicken teriyaki
I only recently realized that Seattle’s ubiquitous teriyaki restaurants are sort of a Seattle-only thing. I never really liked teriyaki chicken growing up – and I’m still not always the biggest fan of overly sweet foods – but after 5 … Continue reading
taco soup
First things first: I can’t take any credit for this recipe. It comes from our good friend Pamela, who got it from some friends in San Diego. It’s sort of like a thin chicken chili that you eat with copious … Continue reading
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black bean tacos with feta and slaw
This is one of the best quick meals I’ve ever found. It doesn’t look like much. In fact, it looks pretty boring. But somehow the spicy black beans, salty slaw, crispy tortilla, and tangy feta cheese come together to make … Continue reading
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bear bread
I’m working on a post about another quick/cheap/easy favorite meal. But in the meantime, I need everyone to see this: (via yaplog.jp, which I can only assume is a Japanese website about making food that looks like animals. Thanks to … Continue reading
pasta salad
Pasta salad is a great way to use up small bits of vegetables that you have in the fridge, threatening to go bad. It’s also a great dish for warm weather – it doesn’t heat up the kitchen, it packs … Continue reading
r.i.p. Good Eats
After 249 episodes, Alton Brown is ending “Good Eats”. Say what you want about his irritating television persona (or I guess that’s just really him?), but I will miss his show. Luckily, most of the Good Eats backlog is on … Continue reading
