Seasonal Cooking – Page 38

October 15, 2008

Chicken Marsala is Really Very Tasty!

Occasionally, I go to the Whole Foods by my work when I forget lunch. I am sometimes seduced by the hot food bar. "Come to me..." it taunts. "All kinds of cuisines...look, above me, it says Global..." It looks good, it all smells good, but when I get back to work I am almost always …

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October 2, 2008

The Return of Soup Weather!

Oh, how I have missed you! Shhh -- don't tell Gazpacho, but I love you best of all, cold weather soup! Here's some tasty broccoli soup that morphed into Broccoli, Potato & Cheddar Soup. Mmm....potatoes and cheese. I saw a recipe at Food Network that I kind of played with and altered to suit my …

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September 28, 2008

The Best Thing I Have Ever Made with My Ice Cream Maker

Strawberry Frozen Yogurt! What's that? You say it's September? You say, "Isn't Strawberry Frozen Yogurt kinda silly in, uh, September? You know, like 2 months after berry season?" Yeah. So what's your point? I managed to find some strawberries at Trader Joe's a couple of days ago, was just walking by and I smelled them …

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September 16, 2008

The Halibut Sandwich That Ate Portland (or At Least Tried To…)

But we ate them instead. Damn, these were huge. But so very good. Instead of baguette, which I thought would be too hard for the fish, we used 2 sandwich rolls. They worked quite well. Basically, look for bread that is of like size and shape to your fish and you will be fine. The …

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September 12, 2008

Zucchini Carbonara for Two

I recently watched an episode of the Jamie Oliver* show on Food Network and he made this. I was transfixed. And even though jwa is not crazy about zucchini, I knew we would be having this soon. Wow. This was good. I used some diced pancetta from Trader Joe's and zucchini I got from the …

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