Once a month I get all motivated to try new recipes — the day the new “Food & Wine” issue arrives in the mail. This month I was stopped in my tracks while flipping through the pages thanks to a feature of “Fast Recipes” that claimed to reimagine classic Greek dishes. Having never [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Hearty Meals’
January 7, 2009
The New Recipe Challenge: Rancho Gordo White Turkey Chili
I’ve said many a time in this space that I am a really lazy cook for someone who likes to think of herself as being fairly cook-ish. I have a tendency to let myself spiral downward into protracted bouts of lethargy and dullardliness, until Pookie slaps me a few times in the face and [...]
September 30, 2008
Cooking A New Recipe! WOO HOO!
Regular readers of IPB Living will know that, while I claim to like to cook, I have a pretty narrow scope, and tend to fall into ruts. This is probably a result of my doing all my grocery shopping on Mondays after work, and often doing my weekly menu planning on the fly while [...]
September 22, 2008
A Cooking Update
I have had a tremendously lazy blogging week, probably because I’ve had a very feisty cooking one. I made a few new recipes this week, shook up our “in a rut” eating patterns, and then sat down with my laptop and thought, “I don’t have the energy at all to write about this”. [...]
September 8, 2008
Faux-caccia, Or: I Might Be A Crazy, Crazy Bitch, But At Least I’m Not Sandra Lee
Okay, the other night I got all creative with my farm share and winged-it with my first-ever attempt at stuffed peppers.
I had four beautiful, perfectly-shaped, giant green peppers and a fridge full of chili leftovers, so there was nothing else to be done with them. When I couldn’t find a recipe that sounded like [...]
August 19, 2008
Winging It, CSA-Style
Okay, so having a share in a CSA is a wonderful thing, but sometimes you find yourself in a bit of a jam, where you have too many vegetables that need immediate attention.
Yesterday was one of those nights for me. I had two cubanelle peppers from last week that I wanted to prepare in [...]
August 1, 2008
A Summer Dinner In Photos
One of the primary reasons we keep up this blog is to have a place to put the pictures we want to look back on and bask in. Basically, in the sweltering heat of summer we like to soak up the feeling of pictures of brisk autumn days and wintry gloamings, and in the [...]
July 5, 2008
4th Of July? Guess It’s Time For BBQ
Here at Maple Hoo we’re not much for making a big deal of holidays. Even our Christmas celebration isn’t normally much more than putting out tons of handmade decorations and opening presents. I kind of have one level of cooking in me: everyday. I think I do a good job of making [...]
June 29, 2008
Is That Bulgur I See There?
Back in September, 2002 there was a recipe for Chicken and Bulgur Salad with Avocado Food & Wine that I decided to try because I happened to have a bottle of the recommended wine pairing (a 2001 Lindemans Padthaway chardonnay) on hand. This is the first and only time to date that I’ve flipped [...]
June 17, 2008
Paying Off My Debts
On the very short list of Pookie’s favoritest meals is black bean cakes. No matter how they’re made, she loves them, so when Bon Appetit ran a recipe for them in 2004, I knew I had to give them a try. They turned out to be an enormous hassle, but were also, predictably, [...]
