If you want a restaurant quality pasta dish with a wonderful flavor and a per serving cost of only $0.88, this butter and sage sauce should be in your family’s recipe box. After the pictures, I’ll share the ingredients, process, nutrition, and cost breakdown. Why am I making it in the middle of the day?…
With all this business talk of pasta, I couldn’t stand the temptation, anymore: I decided this is going to be a week of Italian recipes, and I am going to go through the greatest Italian cookbook ever published, trying nearly everything I can.
After my mom, dad, and youngest sister stopped by this afternoon for banana birthday cake, my brother and, later, my sister-in-law, came over for dinner. We ended up opting for Swedish meatballs with lingonberry sauce and chunky red potatoes, while Tara, Aaron, and I caught up on last night’s episode of Breaking Bad, which none…
With me turning 31 this week (thank you all for the birthday wishes on this morning’s post!), Aaron offered to make any birthday cake I wanted. Now that we’ve tried most flavors following the past few years of non-stop cooking and baking, I decided to go with something slight off the beaten path: A banana birthday cake, finished with a cream cheese icing and chopped pecans.
Yesterday, I mentioned that we should make some sort of stew or pot roast so the house was filled with the warm, inviting scent of roasting meat and vegetables for most of the day. I didn’t think anything of it, and figured it would happen later in the week, but upon waking this morning, I heard grocery bags being unloaded and discovered the process had already begun to try a new pot roast recipe that included carrots, celery, potatoes, parsnips, beef broth, chicken broth, a finish of red wine, herbs, and a few other ingredients. As I’ve sat here going through some work I need to finish, the fragrance keeps getting stronger; it feels like a home should.
I’m going to start back in on the projects I mentioned earlier today, but for now, I’m making good on my promise. The house is filled with the scent of the artisan breads I’m baking as a trade-off for the caramelized carrot soup I was gifted this afternoon. For my first round, I’m making various sizes…
Tonight we decided to try a new recipe for Saag Paneer with homemade Indian cheese. I realized I hadn’t posted any of the dishes we’ve been trying since one of the pineapple upside down cakes I baked earlier this month, so I made a point to stop and go get a camera. Unfortunately, we had…
I made a note to myself at Club 33 in Disneyland to learn to make a good pineapple upside down cake after tasting how delicious theirs was. I wanted to find a version with the amaretto liquor flavor that they had, but haven’t had any luck, so instead, I decided to try a very highly…
We all met for breakfast at Steakhouse 55 in the Disneyland Hotel this morning. We were both starving because we hadn’t eaten in 24 hours – there was so much food at Club 33, neither of us were in the mood for anything else and couldn’t bring myself to even have a snack by midnight. This…
Today is our lunch at Club 33 in Disneyland. I am excited about dining in what is unquestionably one of the most famous restaurants and dining rooms in the world but first, you need the backstory. Ten years ago, during college, Aaron, Ashly, and I, three friends who were in the same classical music studio…
