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 [...]
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Aloo Ghobi Chana Masala
We should start this post by acknowledging the reason we made this recipe. One of our incredibly inspiring best friends chose to run the NYC Marathon on behalf of the Boomer Esaison Foundation. She spent the better part of the year preparing herself physically and mentally [...]
Minestrone-esque Soup
We love living in New York City. This place has everything you could ever dream of and more — a thousand-million-billion restaurants (where else can you choose between 20 Indian/Thai/Italian/Burger restaurants all within walking distance?), museums galore (even if you can only afford them one [...]
Category: Entree, Soups, Vegetarian |
Tags: carrots, celery, green beans, kidney beans, Pasta, potatoes, soup, Tomatoes
Thai salad with plum dressing
Having one of us on a teaching schedule is awesome (more awesome for one of us than the other – but still awesome all the way around). Vacation is wonderfully freeing. But with endless possibilities, come the possibility for endless activity — and we apparently [...]
Category: Entree, Entree, Meat, Salads, Sauces and Dips, Side Dish, Side Dish, Vegetarian |
Tags: apples, peanuts, Plum sauce, red onions
Portobello Burgers with the CK and CQ
We spent a 4-day weekend in July with A’s family — playing cards with Gram (who turns 99 in a month), cleaning the basement, making trips to the dump, introducing Z to Maine, and of course, eating. We indulged in homemade pizzas, grilled cheeses and [...]
Category: Entree, Sauces and Dips, Vegetarian |
Tags: aoli, grilled onions, portabella, veggie burger
Smoked Goat Cheese and Tomato Rigatoni
It has been an exciting weekend here in NYC for the two cooks. Z took a four day weekend and kicked it off with good wine, good food… and a diamond ring for A. The dinner was in the cellar of one of our favorite [...]
Superman’s Duk Boki
We owe a number of great food and drink memories to our most recent west coast trip. We had melt-in-your-mouth croissants and brick oven mushroom and truffle oil pizza in San Francisco. We were introduced to a new drink by a new friend (LTP). We [...]
Asparagus, Cherry Tomatoes, Ricotta and Lemon Zest Gemelli
What do all of those things above have in common? Apparently, they are delicious when served together with some ricotta in a bowl of gemelli. This recipe is inspired by (ok, almost entirely shamelessly stolen from) Dinner: a Love Story. In fact, when we saw [...]
Category: Entree, Pasta, Vegetarian |
Tags: asparagas, basil, garlic, gemelli, lemon zest, parmesan, Tomatoes
Pizza Sauce and Mushroom, Caremelized Onion and Garlic Pizza
This is the next installment in our two cooks cooking-pizza. We tried making this topping a few times before we were satisfied (although we’re not complaining about having to finish all our early attempts). The recipe below reflects the tweaking. The picture above is of [...]
Category: Entree, Vegetarian |
Tags: caramelized garlic, caramelized onions, cremini mushrooms, omelet, pizza
Sauce-less Portobello Pizza
We owe this recipe (and the following 3 pizza-topping recipes we plan to post) to an amazing friend who knows just how to birthday gift the two cooks! She donned Z with personally-designed Two Cooks apron and she lavished A with a… (drum roll)… pizza [...]
Spring Pea Pasta
A is a big fan of peas. They make a great side dish to go with a meal, a fun addition to a main course — and or course are great to put on bruises when they are the frozen variety. Lately, when we’ve gone [...]
Fried Rice
This has become one of our staples — cheap, easy, relatively quick, and, most importantly, definitely delicious. It is another recipe that happened by accident (and is a modification of sorts on our kimchi fried rice). We have been eating it in copious amounts, slowly [...]
Category: Asian, Entree, Gluten Free, Rice, Side Dish, Vegetarian |
Tags: asian, eggs, fried rice, rice, spicy
Miso Glazed Salmon/Tofu
This is a great meal any night of the week. It is low maintenance and delicious. You feel like you’re eating something special, but you don’t feel like you overdid it in the kitchen. That is, unless you decide to prep all the lunches for [...]
Asparagus Risotto
Believe it or not, we made Risotto on a week night! What would have been opening night of A’s musical was cancelled at the last minute due to a fire in the building next to her school. The school had a rapid dismissal because it [...]
Steak and Seitan Sandwiches
We have been going non-stop. A is directing the musical at her high school and getting home around 8 every night. Z is jetting home after work to put those hours into his freelance work and all of this amounts to eating a lot of [...]
Roasted Pepper Rigatoni
This recipe is another one thanks to the CQ and is an all-around family home run because even the carnivorous CK and Z are satisfied with their meal. We had it with them on our last visit and then decided to attempt it ourselves. [...]
Burgers, Vegetarian and Lamb
We’re a funny couple. One of us could eat a juicy sirloin burger (although let’s be real — could eat any kind of burger) every day of his life and the other is exceptionally picky about what types of veggie burgers a) taste good and [...]
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
Whiskey Beef and Mushroom Sauce
We have had some bizarre weather recently. It has rained. It has snowed. It has been sunny. Sometimes all in the same day. It has been so cold we used our oven for heat and it has been a balmy 61°. The only thing [...]
The Joys of Cooking: Stuffed Shells
Last summer we did a blind wine tasting with two of our friends, using two bottles of wine, priced at $20 and $40. We had asked the guy at the Eataly wine shop to pick out the absolute best wine within each category, bag them [...]
Pork Shoulder and Seitan Carnitas
We have both been craving hearty, protein-rich meals. Planning for these meals always leads to the same question: how do we make something protein-rich for both of us? Our most recent success — with carnitas — has had a number of different incarnations, but it [...]
Category: Beef, Entree, Entree, Hearty Meals, Meat, Pork, Vegetarian, Vegetarian Entrees |
Tags: Mexican, Pork, seitan
Batali’s Butternut Squash
We’ve been trying to make use of all the winter veggies out there. We recently made some good brussels sprouts dishes that we will write up soon, but for today we want to post on the pasta below. We’ve made it a number of times [...]
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
99 bottles of beer in the fridge
Ok, so we don’t actually have 99 bottles of beer, but we do have a New-York-City-sized fridge and when generous friends bring lots of beer to to our parties and then leave before it’s all gone, we run out of space quickly. Not that we [...]
Category: Beef, Entree, Entree, Meat, Sauces and Dips, Vegetarian |
Tags: beef, beer, cheese, seitan
Broccoli, Bourguignon, and Beef
When people ask us what an average weekend in New York is like we always tell them that there really is no average weekend. There are concerts and shows to see, family and friends who visit, museums and restaurants and wine tastings to enjoy, [...]
Category: Beef, Entree, Entree, Hearty Meals, Meat, Side Dish, Vegetarian |
Tags: ancho chiles, beef, Broccoli, egg noodles, garlic, paprika, pine nuts, portabella
“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
Two Cooks on the Cape
A has an incredibly generous uncle with a beach house in Chatham, MA. Every year he offers us a vacation spent in the comfort of his home and every Fall we more than willingly take him up on his offer. The house has three bedrooms, [...]
Category: Entree, Hearty Meals, Side Dish, Soups, Vegetarian |
Tags: brussels sprouts, butternut squash, garlic, parmesan, pine nuts, potatoes
Fajita Fun: An Embarrassment of Riches
We have so much to tell you about. Where do we even begin? First, we had a cooking flop this week: Chicken/Tofu Tikka Masala. Ok, so it wasn’t a total flop. It tasted good, but it definitely wasn’t Tikka Masala. We will let you know [...]
Category: Chicken, Entree, Entree, Meat, Side Dish, Side Dishes, Vegetarian |
Tags: black beans, cheddar, chicken, cilantro, corn, onions, peppers, queso fresco, rice, spanish rice, tomato
The Sunday Blues
We all get this sometimes, right? Whether it is due to a hurricane let-down or a daunting week ahead at work, Sunday evening rolls around and you need a cure for the blues. We combat the Sunday blues with some kitchen-time. Sometimes this translates into [...]
Category: Beef, Entree, Entree, Meat, Pasta, Vegetarian |
Tags: beef, Food and Wine, Mushrooms, Orangette, Pasta, Pioneer Woman, Vegatarian Entree
