Posts Tagged ‘Side Dish’
August 3, 2011
There are some weeks when my menu planning falls into place like the perfect game of tetris. Then there are weeks when I leave my menu plan open in the background on my computer all day long, all week and keep clicking back to it in spare moments to swap things in and out and leave blanks and email everyone I know (okay, my mother and Jes) asking them for help figuring out what’s missing. This week was a lot more like the latter than the former. At this point, I’ve made and eaten Dinner and I’m still not entirely happy with the juxtaposition of all the dishes. 90% of it was there, but the green beans felt off somehow, like they didn’t quite fit into the rest of the meal. Read the rest of this entry ?
Posted in *Petra | Tagged Chicken, fruit, Side Dish, Vegetables | 3 Comments »
June 15, 2011
I firmly believe that sandwiches are the world’s perfect food. You can eat them for any meal of the day. They can be sweet or savory. They can be hand held or served on a plate and require a knife and fork to eat. They can embody the spirit of any culture and cuisine. Plus, by definition they contain a tasty starch. There is no bad in this equation.
The British understand the appeal of sandwiches (and bacon) on such a deep emotional level that students at Leeds University got funding to research and derive a scientific formula for making the perfect bacon buttie. How much do you wish you could have been a part of that research team? Read the rest of this entry ?
Posted in *Petra, Uncategorized | Tagged Chicken, fruit, sandwiches, Side Dish, Vegetables | 7 Comments »
May 24, 2011
It’s possible that my spice collection has gotten a little out of control. Between them the sweet spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, etc.) and the savory spices (cumin, thyme, paprika, and about 40 more) take up nearly an entire shelf in my pantry. It’s gotten to the point where the only spices I don’t have are the ones I don’t know about yet. And actually, as of about 3pm on Sunday afternoon that’s not even really true anymore because I now have a bag of dried fenugreek leaves and while I theoretically know of a lot of things to do with them I’m still a little unclear as to what they are exactly, or what flavor they’re imparting to a dish. Read the rest of this entry ?
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May 11, 2011
I name dropped epicurious the other day at work and was met by an extremely blank stare and had to mentally rewind the conversation and remind myself that not everyone stalks the new content on epicurious. Anyway, I moseyed on over to epicurious on Monday to see what was new and was greeted by a whole spiel on weddings – wedding showers, wedding menus, wedding registries, etc. I clicked on the bit about the wedding registry because I have friends who are getting married in a few weeks and earlier this year they asked around at Dinner for kitchen registry recommendations – what we considered essential kitchen equipment, what kitchen equipment we coveted, and useful vs. useless kitchen gadgets. Read the rest of this entry ?
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April 28, 2011
There are days when the obvious answer just completely escapes me. I have spent hours trying to track down a phone number on the internet and never once had it occur to me to just try calling information for the number. Conversely, I’ve spent the past month fruitlessly searching for amchoor powder and toor dal at Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, Penzys, Wilson Farms, Stop-n-Shop, and Food Master. I had reached the point of trying to decide if I was curious enough to buy some online if the shipping was going to be twice the price of the product when it belatedly (as in, Wednesday morning) occurred to me that I could google Indian grocery stores in the Boston area and solve my problem that way. Read the rest of this entry ?
Posted in *Petra, Uncategorized | Tagged bread, Side Dish, Starch | 3 Comments »
March 1, 2011
Where does the time go? I swear we just did this like a minute ago, and with movies I’d actually seen.
Still, it’s that time of year again. Time to have firm opinions about winners and losers without any sort of evidence for said opinion. Time to mock celebrities and their lack of ability to dress themselves mercilessly. In other words, it’s time for the Oscars.
Since The Social Network and The King’s Speech were leading the pack for nominations, this year’s pot luck food theme was:
Junk Food Fit for Royalty
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Posted in *Petra, Uncategorized | Tagged Chicken, Dessert, drinks, fruit, Side Dish, Starch, Sweet, Vegetarian | Leave a Comment »
February 18, 2011
Other people have these moments too right? Those moments when you crash headlong into the wall that divides your expectations of the world from other people’s expectations of the world? And you’re baffled, because how could other people do this thing differently? I’m not talking about the little things you learn when you live with someone – like they tend to leave cupboard doors open, or will return empty bowls to the fridge – which granted are equally baffling, but you learn to live with them. I’m talking about times when you realize that not everyone’s mother considered knowing how to iron a shirt, or sew on buttons, or rewire a light socket essential life skills to be learned before departing the ancestral home. Because, how can you not know how to iron a shirt? Read the rest of this entry ?
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December 3, 2010
My perennial New Year’s Resolution is to stop looking at people like they’re moronic, not because people aren’t frequently stupid but because it seems impolitic and like a wearying way to go through life. This resolution gets harder and harder to remember the later in the year that it becomes.
In an effort to make it through the end of the year without egregiously transgressing on my own resolution I’d like to request a moratorium on idiotic questions (also on people who don’t understand the serial comma, and end sentences on prepositions). Read the rest of this entry ?
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Monday Night Dinner 