This is one of the first recipes I learned to make on my own. It’s simple, it’s easy, it’s versatile, and, naturally, it’s good. Try these potatoes as a side to miso glazed halibut….
Vegetables
Green Beans with Shallots
Every few days, it dawns on me that I haven’t exactly been eating my greens. I don’t have any particular aversion to vegetables – especially the orange ones (see my pumpkin and sweet potato posts!). But for whatever reason, green vegetables often get overlooked. Whenever I realize my oversight, …
Sweet Potato Wedges
One of my favorite things about cooking is getting to experiment. In the kitchen, there are so many different mechanisms with which to experiment and try something new. You can play with the type of ingredients and their amount. You can alter the cooking time and the cooking temperature. Or you can change the medium in which you cook – be it a grill, an oven, or a stove top.
Today I got to test something new.
One of my favorite side dishes…
Sweet Potato Bundt Cake
Like any good American, I often buy things I don’t necessarily need. And I’m particularly susceptible to this urge when I’m around kitchen gadgets. Exhibit 1 would be my recently purchased 10- to 12-cup Bundt pan. Fortunately, the Food Network came to my rescue.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved sweet potatoes. In grade school, our class was putting together a cook book, and we were all asked to bring in our favorite recipe. All the kids brought in recipes for typical kid fare: grilled cheese, ice cream sundaes, macaroni and cheese – normal kid stuff. My recipe involved a root vegetable: sweet potato pie.
After typing ‘Bundt Pan”…
Baba Ghanoush
As near-eastern dishes go, baba ghanoush is the quiet sibling to the more popular hummus. Both recipes revolve around a similar mix of ingredients, and both dishes are all-but ubiquitous in your pita-bread establishments. And yet, for whatever reason, hummus always seems to get top-billing. It practically co-starred with Adam Sandler in You Don’t Mess with the Zohan.