Posted on August 29th, 2010 by admin
When I go home to Kansas, my mom used to ask me what to have on hand. I would give her a generic list, but she eventually got the drill. Except recently she’s begun telling people that no matter how much she prepares, she never buys enough eggs.
It’s usually because I’m doing a lot of [...]
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Posted on May 30th, 2010 by admin
Like all my favorite pasta dishes, this was inspired by a trip through my produce aisle, then my meat and seafood counters. The sausage adds richness, the asparagus and favas add freshness, and the shrimp made it a little something special (at least at our dinner table). For a dish like this, where the ingredient [...]
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Posted on February 21st, 2010 by admin
This dish was born out of needing to use up a few fridge staples and a desire to make something a little unusual for dinner. Stuffing the chicken breasts we had seemed to be a delicious solution, and it was. I stuffed it with deliciously garlicky mixture of spinach, cheese, and peppadew peppers, and topped [...]
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Posted on January 31st, 2010 by theapartmentkitchen
This dish almost tasted like carbonara, because of the egg on top. I love dishes like this because they are simple, delicious, and cooked all in one pot. Pasta is also great, of course, for just cooking for one person.
You may have noticed that I usually use whole wheat pasta or pasta made from farro [...]
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Posted on October 28th, 2009 by theapartmentkitchen
I’ve always loved whole grains. Don’t get me wrong, I love my fluffy white rice and all varieties of baked goods made with regular flour, but I’ve always had a thing for the nutty, chewy, hearty flavor of whole grains like farro, barley, and wheatberries. So a few years ago I started making “risotto style” [...]
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