3 Dec
I love a frittata for brunch, classic like an omelet but more airy. The shrimp cakes are a good substitute if you’re tired of boring sausage patties. They also serve as great appetizers, and, when made in smaller sizes, hors d’oeuvre for your holiday party!
Spanish Frittata with Potatoes and Chorizo
3 tbp olive oil
1 large yellow [...]
20 Nov
This is one of my “I don’t feel like cooking dinner” dinners. With finals right around the corner, the kitchen is seeing a lot less of me. These ham and Swiss rolls make for a quick dinner with simple deli offerings, plus the leftover ones make for a decent toaster oven breakfast the next day.
Ham and [...]
27 Oct
I love the emphasis on using fresh vegetables and herbs in Vietnamese cuisine. One bite presents so many different contrasting textures. This recipe, a tweaked version of the original Martha Stewart, is by no means authentically Vietnamese but showcases many of those same characteristics: fresh, clean, and complex in flavor.
Glass noodles (also known as cellophane noodles) are [...]
15 Oct
Since there are only two of us at home, buying a deli rotisserie chicken usually means we’ll have leftovers. This rosemary rotisserie chicken pasta recipe from Real Simple is perfect for dealing with those leftovers.
8 oz shell pasta
half of a rotisserie chicken (or whatever you have left)
2 tbsp fresh rosemary
1/2 cup grated Parmesan
salt and pepper
Cook pasta according to package [...]
7 Sep
I brought back a large bag of Yunnan dried red chiles from my China trip in May and haven’t done a darn thing with them. Then it struck me, I could make a semi-authentic, personalized version of kung pao chicken (or in Chinese pinyin, gong bao ji ding) with these peppers. Since I have no [...]
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