One Dinner At A Time

Last weekend, Wei and I drove up to the Baltimore/DC area for his brother's wedding. We had an excellent time celebrating and hanging ou...

(Dinner for one) This might be my ultimate dish for solitary dining: it's fast, easy, somewhat decadent and full of garlic. Just what I ...

The weather has finally got chilly here. I'm actually having to put on a coat when I take the dogs out in the morning. Woo! I thought t...

I got the preparation ideas for my chicken marsala from Thousandthdish on xanga. He hasn't posted new recipes in almost a year, which i...

Wei threw a package of bean thread noodles into our cart the last time we went to the Asian market. After doing some research to find out w...

Ah, ravioli made with wonton skins. I've been wanting to make this since I first heard of it. It's perfect for me because I (a) am t...

Italian wedding soup doesn't actually get served at weddings in Italy. It's a mistranslation in English of the Italian name for the ...

This is a bit of a MacGyver dish. I bought the scallops yesterday when we were at the Asian market with the intention of using them for a di...

I make no claims that this is authentic lo mein; I don't even know what authentic lo mein would entail. I set out to make a stir fry tha...

Not long after Wei and I started dating, he made shrimp one night when I was hanging out at his place. We stood at his kitchen sink, peeling...

I got the inspiration for this dish from a chapter in Alex Kapranos' book Sound Bites: Eating on Tour with Franz Ferdinand : There's...

I'm not going to post about the slow cooker chicken tortilla soup I made last night. It was so not awesome that I'm not even going t...

The term "stuffed shells" is frozen in my memory as a nasty school lunch item that was on pretty heavy rotation at my elementary s...

I took the inspiration for this dish from a few different recipes in my Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition . I wanted to create a summ...

I saw Ching He-Huang make this recipe in an episode of Daily Cooks! on BBC America about a month ago, and I knew I had to try it! Besides ...

I have such a love-hate relationship with Rachael Ray. I love that she encourages people to get in the kitchen. I love it when she creates r...

Having soup for dinner is still a relatively new thing in my life. When I was growing up, the only soup we had came from a can and was gener...