Monthly Archives: October 2008
Spinach Raviolis with Aged Gorgonzola and Shaved Pear
This dinner is really easy to make—but looks and tastes like you spent hours slaving in the kitchen. The contrasting flavors and textures of a few good, fresh ingredients make this meal something special.
Earilier...
Nutty Spiked Cider for Two
This is my kind of cold-weather drink. I've had a savage case of the sniffles the last few days, and I asked The Angry Chef if he might oblige me with some kind of...
Chicken Cooked in Cream
Warning: This isn't diet food.
This chicken is comfort food times ten. I was feeling a little under the weather when I got home from the office, and wanted something soothing, warm, salty, and rich....
Molasses Ginger Drop Cookies
Call me crazy, but when I've had a long day, there's something really satisfying about going home and baking cookies.
The dough is simple to throw together. They don't take long in the oven. And...
Thick Crust Sausage & Cheese Pizza
This is another incidence of me combining homemade bread with pork products. If it happens again, I might just have a problem. I can admit that.
While it's not necessarily a fast thing to cook...
Gummi Bear Love: Sweet Decorating Ideas
Gummi bears are my favorite candy. Hands down. And while any gummi bear will do in a pinch, I definitely like Haribo Gold-Bears the best.
Needless to say, I lost my mind when I saw...
A New Santoku Knife, in Pink for the Cure
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month. While there's no breast cancer in my family, it affects hundreds of thousands of people each year.
Now, I'm not really one to get up on a pulpit....
Rustic Apple Galette
This may be the shortest intro in Hungry Mouse history. We're out the door in a few minutes on our way to a party, but here's what we're bringing.
A galette is basically a rustic...
Lentil Soup & Friday Night in the South of France
It's just about 9 o'clock on Friday night and it's 53 degrees in Boston—which is officially soup weather in my book. It's late to be starting a pot of soup, but somehow that's not...
Roasted Rosemary-Garlic Acorn Squash
This has got to be my favorite way to cook squash, short of doing that kind-of-horrifying-but-still-embarrassingly-yummy thing where you mash it up with butter then bake it under a snowy blanket of marshmallows.
Think of...