Dinner – October 22nd
Coconut Braised Pork Loin
Spiced Tomato & Potato Gratin
Green Beans Read the rest of this entry »
TND: Dinner – October 22nd
October 25, 2013TND: Dinner – October 15th (Birthday Season 2013 Part II)
October 25, 2013
Dinner – October 15th (AKA Birthday Season 2013 – Part II)
Spaghetti-Os
Bread
Salad/Fruit
Snickers Ice Cream Sundae Skillet Cake Read the rest of this entry »
TND: Dinner – October 8th
October 25, 2013
Dinner – October 8th
Apricot Chicken Tagine
Mint & Basil Couscous
Roasted Cauliflower & Broccoli Read the rest of this entry »
TND – Dinner Round Up
October 15, 2013I think it’s safe to say I’m a little behind on Dinner posts. Let’s recap:
Dinner August 27th
Asian Chicken Salad
Jammy Cornbread
Dinner September 3rd
Cauliflower Cheese
Chai Brined Pork Chops with Peach Glaze
Tomatoes
Salad
Interlude – California!
Reporting & entirely too many pictures can be perused here
Dinner September 24th
Zucchini Basil Soup
Caprese Melts with Balsamic Reduction
BBB Salad (Beet, Bacon & Baby Spinach) + Hard Boiled Eggs
Dinner October 1st – AKA the beginning of Birthday Season
Posole Verde with Fixins
Salad with Creamy Honey-Lime Vinaigrette
S’mores Ice Cream Pie
TND: Dinner – October 1st (AKA the beginning of Birthday Season 2013)
October 14, 2013
Dinner October 1st (aka the beginning of Birthday Season 2013)
Posole Verde + Fixins
Salad with Creamy Honey-Lime Vinaigrette
S’mores Ice Cream Pie Read the rest of this entry »
TND: Dinner – September 24th
October 14, 2013
Dinner September 24th
Zucchini Basil Soup
Caprese Melts with Balsamic Reduction
BBB Salad (Beet, Bacon & Baby Spinach) + Hard Boiled Eggs Read the rest of this entry »
TND Interlude! California Dreaming
October 14, 2013
In between having Dinner not writing about Dinner we disappeared off to California for 10 days.
The impetus for the trip was an invitation to Jes’s wedding (sneak peak of coming material – it was awesome!), and we figured as long as we were flying 6 hours across the country we might as well stay a while and visit with people and act like tourists (although hopefully we were more like enlightened visitors than tacky tourists).
Firstly though, the wedding was fantastic. It is currently occupying the top spot on my ‘best weddings I’ve been to’ list. Granted, I don’t think I’ve been to any terrible weddings, but still – top billing for this one. Read the rest of this entry »
TND: Dinner – September 3rd
October 14, 2013
Dinner September 3rd
Cauliflower Cheese
Chai Brined Pork Chops with Peach Skillet Sauce
Tomatoes
Salad Read the rest of this entry »
TND: Dinner – August 27th
October 14, 2013
Dinner August 27th
Asian Chicken Salad
Jammy Cornbread Read the rest of this entry »
TND – Put the Lime in the Coconut
August 23, 2013
If you’ve ever tried to cook a vintage recipe – or tried to recreate some recipe your grandmother always used to make – you’ve probably run into the problem that older recipes tend to be frustratingly short on details. For example, my grandmother’s recipe for Moravian Coffee Cake (which incidentally is (a) the best coffee cake ever, and (b) why I don’t particularly like the crumb topped coffee cakes you usually see – see below the crunchy sugary glory of a Moravian Coffee Cake)
is a little too vague on specifics for me to attempt to make it without doing some research to nail down quantities, times, and textures. It’s got the basics (flour, sugar, yeast, mashed potato), but veers into ‘here there be dragons’ territory when it comes to exactly how much flour (enough to make a stiff, but not too stiff dough), and how much butter (enough to cover tuck into indentations all over the dough).
Monday Night Dinner 