Ok, back to summer salads! This particular couscous salad is Cheryl’s favorite. I’m not sure if there’s a special ingredient in it she really likes or if it’s the combination of everything, but whatever it is she gets very happy when I make it. As with most of my summer creations, this couscous salad isContinue reading “Couscous Salad (don’t worry, summer’s almost over)”
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Homemade Peach Pie
You can tell we’re really getting into summer by the types of fresh fruits and vegetables now filling the produce aisles in abundance. Cherries, green beans, and the newcomer of the past couple weeks, peaches. Time to make one of my favorite summertime desserts: Peach Pie! I’ve been discovering many people are secret peach pieContinue reading “Homemade Peach Pie”
Summer Lentil Salad
Hot summer days require something cool to go with whatever you’re grilling. Cold salads fit the bill nicely. As you’ll see, I like making a lot of different salads in the summer. They can be made ahead in bulk and chilled in the fridge, ready to be served or packed up and taken on aContinue reading “Summer Lentil Salad”
Awesome Summer Dessert – Strawberry Rhubarb Pie!
A little more than a week ago Artizone, an online artisanal food shopping and delivery service here in Chicago (and Dallas) hosted a quiz on Twitter where you could win a small bag of food from them, sourced from local shops like Gepperth’s Meat Market and Green Grocer Chicago. It wasn’t a very difficult quizContinue reading “Awesome Summer Dessert – Strawberry Rhubarb Pie!”
Mixed Berry Custard Tart – Simple Ratios
On Mother’s Day we went over to our friends Erik and Jen’s for some grilling. It was a beautiful, sunny day in Chicago and we offered to bring some dessert. No idea why since I’m not much of a baker. Well not much of cake baker at least. If I had to rank my dessertContinue reading “Mixed Berry Custard Tart – Simple Ratios”
Garlic Herb Stuffed Leg of Lamb with an Orange Mint Sauce
So remember a few posts back how I said I always make a leg of lamb for Easter? (No? Well go back a few and get caught up!) Since we were traveling I didn’t get to cook Easter dinner. However, upon returning to Chicago I noticed ham and lamb were both on sale. Imagine that. Continue reading “Garlic Herb Stuffed Leg of Lamb with an Orange Mint Sauce”
Mushroom and Carrot Risotto
Ah risotto. Siiiiiiiigggghhhhh. I’d say this is one of those dishes every budding home chef ate at a restaurant or saw Mario make on tv and said to themselves “I have to learn how to make this!” Risotto’s not quite the Holy Grail of home cookery but I’d say it’s one of the top adventuresContinue reading “Mushroom and Carrot Risotto”
What’s for Sunday Dinner: Caramelized Onion and Duck Tart
A couple of weeks ago I bought some frozen duck legs with the intention of making confit. I don’t use the traditional method of cooking them in duck fat, I cheat a bit by slowly cooking the legs in olive oil. It achieves basically the same result, some preserved duck legs you can pull outContinue reading “What’s for Sunday Dinner: Caramelized Onion and Duck Tart”
Fettucine with Bay Scallops in a Saffron Cream Sauce
Fridays in Lent can be tough for Roman Catholics, especially when you have some leftover meatloaf and osso bucco in the fridge. Bad for me, good for Cheryl who’s one of those rebellious Protestants. Well it’s not really that tough, but we like to try to convince everyone it’s difficult. It usually doesn’t work thoughContinue reading “Fettucine with Bay Scallops in a Saffron Cream Sauce”
Quick Weeknight Dinner – Red Lentils
Lentils. Quick to cook, versatile, tasty, and healthy for you. A perfect ingredient for a quick weeknight dinner on a gym night where you haven’t had time to make anything because you watched a very important Newcastle match against Blackburn in the late afternoon. (Btw, Newcastle won and moved up to 5th in the EPLContinue reading “Quick Weeknight Dinner – Red Lentils”
The Roaming GastroGnome 