Colorful recipes with seasonal food
When I go to a Thai restaurant I usually order pad see ew or pad woon sen, but every once in a while I’m in the mood for something a little spicier, and for that I turn to drunken noodles, or pad kee mao. According to the menu at my favorite Thai restaurant, Pepper Sky’s,…
I’m going to admit right off that I’ve never been to Burma, and I don’t think I’ve even had these noodles at a restaurant before so I’m not entirely sure what it’s supposed to taste like, but when I saw this recipe for Burmese Noodle Bowl on Food52, I knew I had to try it. …
When I cut out most meats from my diet a few years ago, the one thing I missed the most wasn’t steaks or burgers. It was my mom’s pork and cabbage dumplings. To be honest, I still make and eat them once in a while because they’re so good, but my tummy always feels funny…
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It seems like a running theme in the last couple of posts has been how I’ve used up vegetables from my Boston Organics deliveries, so here’s another one. I made this back in August, when eggplants were still in season, and I got these lovelies in my delivery. I was inspired by Nobu’s eggplant with…
Every time I get crimini mushrooms in my Boston Organics delivery now I’ve been making this pizza. I’ve made several variations–with fresh mozzarella, with shredded mozzarella, with rosemary, with thyme instead–and this is my favorite iteration so far. Mushroom Marsala Pizza makes two 10″ pizzas 2 8 oz. balls of pizza doughOlive oil1 onion, sliced thinly1…
I still make hot crash potatoes almost every time I get small, waxy potatoes from Boston Organics, but this time, I wanted something with a little more kick. So I made a quick sriracha mayonnaise and drizzled it on the finished potatoes along with a sprinkle of chopped scallions, and tada! Hotter crash potatoes! I…
I just got back from another trip to Italy! A couple of weeks ago, my cousin Leslie asked me if I’d like to join her on a business trip to Rome and after a quick check to see if I could fly there using my miles, I happily accepted. Rome in winter is quite different…
You’d think grilled cheese would be an incredibly easy thing to make, but I still remember the first time I ever tried to make one (I think I was 12 or 13) I thought I could just put a piece of American cheese between two slices of bread and toast that in the toaster oven…
I was going to a vegetarian Thanksgivingukkah potluck, and I knew exactly what I wanted to bring. I’ve been wanting to make this dish ever since I read the HuffPost Taste’s article raving about it last year. It’s basically a pumpkin hollowed out and stuffed with breadcrumbs, cheese, and heavy cream, then roasted until the…
One of my favorite places to bring visitors to Boston is this Afghan restaurant in Cambridge called The Helmand. Usually, it’s the first time any of them have had Afghan food, and I love introducing them to the signature appetizer there, the kaddo. It’s a “pan-fried then baked baby pumpkin seasoned with sugar and served…
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