Our 25/50 friends had the great idea, a while back, to celebrate a birthday while sipping wine and making homemade pasta. We blame them, in part, for this post — as well as the CQ and CK, who enabled this new love by buying us [...]
Make Ahead
Raisin Challah
New York City schools get a bad rap for gang-violence, low-performance, and general dysfunctionality, but what none of the movies or statistics remember to point out is that a big perk to working in the NYC Dept. of Ed is all the Jewish holidays that [...]
Cinnamon Rolls
Z fondly remembers helping out with some of the cooking when he was growing up (a kid has to earn some fun-money!). While chores in his house included the typical weekend cleaning activities — vacuuming, sweeping, mopping — as he got into middle and high [...]
3 Bean Chili
Our original plan was to make a chili that we could throw into nachos for our 2-person Super Bowl Party (Oh, Pats). We looked up recipes and then remembered that we had a chili recipe from the CQ hanging on our fridge. The recipe below [...]
Category: Entree, Hearty Meals, Make Ahead, Vegetarian |
Tags: black beans, chili powder, cumin, great northern beans, Jalapenos, onions, pinto beans
Buttermilk Pancakes
When we were first dating we would often spend our Sundays together — one of us grading and the other building websites. We have worked hard over the past few years, however, to take less and less home and to maintain more of a work-life [...]
More Beer, Beef and Seitan
One of our friends recently went Veggie and her husband is a bit bungled by the new cooking parameters. We were all out for dinner together and he was asking us if we “always cook two separate meals” and “wasn’t that frustrating” and “don’t we [...]
Category: Beef, Entree, Entree, Hearty Meals, Make Ahead, Meat, Vegetarian |
Tags: beef, beer, garlic, paprika, potatoes, seitan
“Trust me, I’m a chef.”
Don’t worry — the quotes around the title denote that that sentiment is not ours. We like to cook for sure, but we are far from even considering calling ourselves chefs. But not as much can be said for the random guy at the supermarket [...]
Category: Chicken, Entree, Entree, Hearty Meals, Make Ahead, Meat, Vegetarian |
Tags: cayenne, cheddar, chiles, cilantro, garlic, onion, poblanos, Tomatoes
Cucumber Kimchi and Somen Salad
We’ve added a more descriptive title to this post… the old title: Where were you during the East Coast Earthquake? Sorry, is that old news already? Maybe even asking about the hurricane would be a little “last weekend”… In any case, we were in Portland [...]
BBQ Chicken and Summer Pasta
When the cooking world is your oyster, the question “What should we have for dinner?” is simultaneously thrilling and daunting. The follow up question: what are you craving? Zach: Chicken and BBQ sauce. Amanda: A light summer pasta. Typical. But that’s what we got. We turned [...]
Category: Chicken, Entree, Entree, Make Ahead, Meat, Pasta, Vegetarian |
Tags: basil, BBQ sauce, chicken, garlic, parmesan, roasted peppers, Whiskey
Kimchi Fried Rice
We left our comfort zone a bit behind us with last night’s dinner and are reporting back that it was well worth the trip. We were recently introduced to the food blog Anger Burger and after reading one of her latest entries describing her attempt at Asian [...]
Category: Beef, Entree, Entree, Gluten Free, Hearty Meals, Make Ahead, Meat, Rice, Vegetarian |
Tags: chili sauce, flank steak, fried egg, kimchi, our restaurant, rice, sriracha
Beef Stew 2.0
The original beef stew was a hit, so we decided to serve it for a dinner guest. After our first attempt, as per usual we said, “When we serve this at our restaurant we will…” The verdict was to go saucier. We’re a sauce family. [...]
Category: Beef, Entree, Hearty Meals, Make Ahead, Meat |
Tags: beef, brandy, our restaurant, red wine, sage
