Tag Archive for potatoes

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 [...]

Barley and Vegetable Soup

The fall brought a new season of veggies, a new year of school (for A), and a new season of colds (for all).  Blame it on the lack of sleep or the presence of teenagers, but what was supposed to be a relaxing Saturday staying [...]

Chickpea and Potato Salad

Have you ever gone to brush your teeth and realized you were about to slather your toothbrush with the moisturizer that happened to be in the proximity on your bathroom counter?  Admit it.  You have totally taken out the Brita instead of the milk that [...]

Steak Fries

This is certainly off Z’s potato diet. Oops. For people just in for this post, Z at some point had read that potatoes correlate with weight gain, and so, despite his intense love for anything potato, he has been denying himself.  Mostly. Incidentally, during our [...]

Salad Nicoise

A few weekends ago we went to Boston to visit the Cardiac King and Queen.  The CQ made sangria that no one could resist and amazing Swiss Chard Crostinis that we will post about soon because we had to try.  We spent time with A’s [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]