Comments on: What are we having tonight?

By: Jim Bob

Jim Bob — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:49:41 +0000

sorry to dig up the past here, but my wife sent me this blog, and I immediately thought of this post. This girl's new year's resolution is to use her crockpot (slowcooker) everyday in 2008.

By: edgar

edgar — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:06:23 +0000

I’m just glad I’m not to blame for the Felicia cooking bug that’s going around…

For Christmas I “cooked” (no-bake) a chocolate pudding pie… it was a hit with the fam…

I still have to make two Maple Pecan Pies, a Lemon Pie, and a Pumpkin pie sometime this four-day weekend… I also plan to continue making a few dishes here and there for dinner, I saw several I want to try on epicurious.

I have Rachael Ray’s 30-min cookbook (I have 2 of them) and I’ve only really done like two of the recipes, but its just that I haven’t had time or desire to really cook anything.

Since Thanksgiving I’ve made a variety of items for potlucks or parties, including baked goods (pies) and appetizers (marinated mushrooms) and other knick knacks like green bean casserole and lemon-roasted green beans with marcona almonds.

Getting hungry!

By: dparr

dparr — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 06:44:01 +0000

Hey Ben. The tomatoes don’t have to be frozen. If one intends to make pasta sauce right away, the tomatoes can be bought at the market or picked off the vine and have the peels removed with boiling water. I just like the convenience of being able to bust out a bagful of tomatoes at any time and make pasta sauce without going shopping.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 14:42:16 +0000

Dparr–that really does sound yummy however, I am wondering why the beautiful, flavor loaded Roma’s need to be frozen???

By: daysies

daysies — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:35:02 +0000

thanks for the suggestion on the book Seriously Simple… i added it to my Amazon wish list.

i have all of Giada’s books (love her!) and almost every single one of her shows on TiVo (well, transfered to an external HD) except for her early stuff, which Food Network doesn’t seem to want to reair. i hope she starts making shows on baby food (since she’s pregnant) or some more vegetarian episodes. i’m not vegetarian by any means, but somedays, i just don’t want to eat meat.

what you cooked looks delish, Felicia! i only became serious about cooking the last couple years. i’ve learned how to make a handful of my native dishes (Filipino) and i just try to perfect the ones i like from Giada’s show or her cookbooks. if you find 20 or so recipes you’re best at, just keep rotating them or substitute one or two ingredients and you’ll never run out of things to cook.