Recipe Fridays: Pork Chop Sandwiches, maaan!

“What is THAT?!” you’re probably screaming at your monitor right now.  If not, you should start, ‘cuz I’m about to rock your sandwich-world, baby. A short while back, I posted on Facebook that I’d “accidentally” bought 10 pork chops.  (They were just under a dollar cheaper per lb. if you bought 3+ lbs.; I wanted 2-4 pork chops and figured 3 lbs. couldn’t be that many more, right?  I didn’t realize pork chops individually were so light!) James of The Eaten Path wrote, “Pork chop sandwiches!!!” with a link.  A link that would change my life forever, and it will [...]

Recipe Fridays: Portobello Pandemonium

My name is Yvo, and I have a cheese problem. Okay, not really, but the realization that I have in my cheese drawer something like $80 of various cheeses and, counting my blends, like 15 different kinds… well, it amused me.  I told this to a friend who responded, “The fact that you have a cheese drawer already signifies there’s an issue.”  Whatever.  Where do YOU keep your cheese, then, genius?!  (Yes, I buy pre-shredded blends, because it makes my life infinitely easier and because I’m cooking with them, I don’t feel the quality of the cheese deteriorates that much.  [...]

Recipe Fridays: More Ways to Eat Salmon (Lemon Dill Salmon & Salmon Tacos)

YUM!!!  Don’t know if you noticed, but I’ve been eating a LOT of salmon.  Partially because I can still eat fish, and partially because I had a blood test done recently and they told me I was low on the good kind of cholesterol (low overall, actually, but they seemed to be confused about how to handle that), and that I should consume more OMEGA-3s.  The woman who conducted the test (done through Cigna, my health insurance provider) was lovely but seriously didn’t know how to handle this situation.  She then listed what I could do to get more Omega-3s [...]

Recipe Fridays: Don’t Do What I Did (or, Black Bean Hash)

So you probably already know, I started this whole meatless thing this past Saturday.  I had to quickly come up with something to make for bento, and you know, to keep me from thinking I wouldn’t have anything to eat.  I brainstormed, I flipped through a terrible vegetarian cookbook I picked up at Strand – first, I’m an idiot for not looking more carefully before I bought it, but it was my first time really shopping there and I was so excited to find out everything is 50% off cover price unless otherwise listed.  And it was titled something like Vegetarian for [...]

Recipe Fridays: Soy-Glazed Salmon with Soba Salad

Mmm… those aren’t burnt bits, I assure you.  Just extra deliciousness… (Seriously, they’re not burned… it’s this silly story about how I went to buy soy sauce and well, my mom bought me a bottle last time and said, “This is the good stuff to use,” and when I went to the store on Sunday, I bought what I thought I remembered her getting me: premium dark soy sauce.  Turns out she’d gotten me premium soy sauce; the dark stuff is super dark.)  Mmm… even more delicious is the side that goes with it.  No.  Wait.  They’re both super delicious.  [...]

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