Trying to figure out what to make? Or maybe just some inspiration before going to the grocery store? This Recipes section chronicles everything that I make on a daily basis. The good, the not-quite-so-good, and the sheer and utter failures! I’m joking, of course. There are very few catastrophic failures that cannot be remedied with the right skill, coaching, and presence of good family, friends, pets, and compost bins! But, nevertheless. Cooking is about perseverance and having fun with it.
I’m constantly in search of a new and interesting recipes to make. Even a brief perusal of this Recipes section will give anyone an idea of how much I cook. After a 10, 11 hour shift at work cooking for other people all day? The first thing that I want to do when I get home, my feet aching on concrete floors and my entire body smelling of other people’s food and my own blood, sweat, and tears? Is not to put my feet up and relax! But to crank up the music in my kitchen, pour myself a glass of sauvignon blanc, and start slow cooking a curry! Or make macaroni and cheese from scratch. Or melting cheese all over every single leftover that I have in my fridge in a big plate of nachos.
It’s really why I started this blog. I wanted some way to chronicle my culinary endeavors and preserve them for future reference. After all, if I don’t write down what I did, why I did it, and take pictures for posterity’s sake? I will absolutely never be able to recreate it again. And, if I’m going to go to that much effort just to be able to recreate something that I made in the middle of the night after cracking into a bottle of wine? Maybe you can find some inspiration in it, too.
Part of the point of cooking is to have a community. And my motto is always, if you have to eat? You might as well eat well! So, I hope that this Recipes section can provide some of that community. And inspiration to cook to anyone beyond myself. My eternal desire is not to fall into complacency or boredom. So, if in any way my eternally expanding Recipes section is of any value to anyone beyond myself? I wish you all of the best luck!
I don’t ordinarily use yellow cheddar cheese. I’m always perplexed as to why dyed cheese became in style. I have a sneaking suspicion that it has something to do with why the color of fried food is also a delectable orange hue. But the orange […]
Omelettes have rapidly become one of my favorite foods. I tend to make variations of the same dishes over and over again and I’ll cycle between them. I’ll make curry all throughout the cold wintry months. Then, I’ll switch to burritos and enchiladas in the […]
I made Quinoa w/ Sweet Potatoes, Turmeric, & Serranos the other day. It’s a variation on one of my favorite quinoa dishes and is a great quick and easy recipe to toss together. I also have Potluck Avocado Dip w/ Spinach, Serrano & Peanuts, so […]
I was going through my pantry the other day and came across an entire jar of peanuts. I tend to do this. There’s a whole hoard of nuts in my closet that I’ve just been carrying around for ages! And I’m determined to actually use […]
I made an absolutely delicious batch of Quinoa w/ Sweet Potato, Turmeric, & Rice Vinegar last month. With the sweet potatoes and turmeric, everything was tinted a deliciously warm orange hue. I can’t get the craving out of my mind. So, I decided to make […]
The other day I made Green Pasta Salad w/ Spinach & Greek Yogurt for St. Patrick’s Day. I may have made enough to feed an army while living alone, though! I don’t like eating the same thing every day and absolutely must find something else […]
It was St. Patrick’s Day yesterday and I’m still feeling green. I suspect that the feeling may stick around for another week, or at least until I run out of all of the spinach-tinted ingredients that I have leftover! Today, I am absolutely cracking into […]
It’s been an incredibly long week and I want nothing more than nachos today. I’ve really been dreaming about them all day. I had a big omelette for breakfast and skipped lunch specifically because I knew that I was going to make a big plate […]
Tomorrow is St. Patrick’s Day and I absolutely must use the rest of my leftovers before I inevitably cook more! I have plans for something delectably green for the holiday and absolutely do not want to be sitting on copious amounts of rice and salmon […]
It is St. Patrick’s Day today and I am in full on drink Guinness and turn all of my food green mode. I will take absolutely any and every opportunity to theme a dish. So, I get pretty excited about holidays from a culinary standpoint. […]
