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Roasted mushroom spaghetti

I’m a simple person. I don’t want much in life. A warm home, a happy family, an elephant, and a few good, simple meals. This dish basically evolved out of me wanting a tasty, light dinner but also not having gone grocery shopping in a week and not having any meat or anything thawed. I [...]

Mac&Chorizo

I’m on year two of a five year plan that was put into operation about 15 years ago. I’m a little behind, I’ll admit. But the plan, the plan is still good. The plan is to take over the world. At first I thought I’d do it with my charm and effervescent wit. But that [...]

Lunasa Market Mac & Cheese

I miss my Needle Lane farm share. Shopping for your own vegetables is just not the same. It lacks the surprise and the built-in push to experiment with new things. I suppose I could just go to the grocery store, stand in the produce section, blindfold myself and blindly grope around until I grab something…but [...]

Meatballs: A Love Story

This week has been a massive failure, culinarily speaking. I think I ate out half the week, with the exception of last night, when Josh made Kraft Mac for us for dinner because I was too lightheaded to do anything but fall asleep after a very long day at work during which I ran around [...]

Monday Night Pantry Pasta Pretty Damn Quick

I picked out glasses yesterday afternoon. Prescription sunglasses, to be precise. I can’t really tell you what they look like though. I’m not even really sure. That’s the problem with having to try on glasses when you don’t wear contacts and are otherwise mostly blind. But hey, in about 3-4 weeks when they come in, [...]

How Green is My Pasta: Penne + Avocado = Pastocado?

I know. I’ve been neglecting you. I haven’t written a real post for over a week. And it’s sad. But the truth is that…well, there hasn’t been much to write about. I haven’t cooked a whole lot and what I have cooked hasn’t been very impressive, and definitely not worth sharing. Although I did make [...]

Meal For One: Black and Green Pasta

This what I had for lunch today. The squid ink pasta came from my mom. It’s an egg pasta that’s been dyed a deep black color with squid ink, which also gives it a salty, kind of oily taste as well. The great thing is that it cooks in 3 minutes. For Halloween, I will [...]

Mushroom Ragout, from the “Keep Going Til It Tastes Good” Cooking School

My dear friend and fellow foodie/home cook and vegetarian extraordinaire Paul came over to hang out with us for a while tonight and in honor, I made a simple, tasty dinner of a mushroom and leek ragout. Mostly because I had most of the stuff for pasta and needed to fill my quota of 2 [...]

Meal in a pot: baked mac and cheese

I think there’s one basic truth in this world that we can all agree upon: macaroni and cheese is freaking awesome. It’s like pizza-even when it’s bad, it’s still macaroni and cheese. There’s a de facto rule in my family that every holiday meal must contain at least one pan of baked macaroni and cheese. [...]

Salsa + Spaghetti = Salsagetti

Inspired by reading over Noelle’s entry about her delicious-looking salsa, I decided tonight to utilize the tomato-y bounty given forth to me by Josh’s beautiful heirloom variety tomato plants growing out on our deck. But instead of a salsa, a fresh tomato sauce that I could mix in with the whole wheat linguine I got [...]