Cooking - Where's the Granola?

Where's the Granola?

Cooking

A collection of 21 posts

Tortellini broccoli bake

Here's an easy prep-ahead meal. Ingredients * 1-2 heads broccoli * 3-4 servings tortellini * 1 container ricotta cheese * 1 egg * Salt and pepper * Italian herbs * Parmesan cheese Process 0. If cooking immediately, preheat over to 350 degrees. 1. Boil a pot of water 2. Chop up broccoli into bite size

Flour-less Chocolate Birthday Cake

Flour-less Chocolate Birthday Cake

Generally Elliott isn't really a dessert person, so when I've asked him what kind of birthday cake he wants it's usually one of four things: (1) Sour cream coffee cake his mom used to make - I have the recipe for this, but so

Curried Carrot Soup

Curried Carrot Soup

It's the Lincoln Memorial! It has nothing to do with carrot soup except that I made this the same day I visited the Lincoln Memorial for the first time. I came up with this soup recipe the other day. I think the key is using a good curry

Ginger Apple Oats

Ginger Apple Oats

I'm a huge oatmeal fan. Since quarantine began, I've eaten oatmeal for breakfast most mornings. I often do a big batch of steel cut oats in the instapot and heat them up with milk in the morning, but I've been known to whip up

Ricotta Dumplings with Spinach Sauce

Ricotta Dumplings with Spinach Sauce

Once again, I forgot to take any pictures of this meal, but it was delicious and relatively easy to make. Here's a picture of Baker Beach, which was part of our epic city walk yesterday. Ingredients - Ricotta Dumplings * 15oz Ricotta cheese (one container) * 2 eggs * 1 cup

Cashew and Rice Balls with Raita

Cashew and Rice Balls with Raita

I don't have a great name for this recipe, but let's face it, neither did the Bon Appetit Chicken and Rice Meatballs with Hummus this is inspired by. In spite of the lackluster name, both Elliott and I were big fans of this dish. It'

Ginger Scallion Dumplings

This weekend was lunar New Year! Happy year of the rat. To celebrate, I decided to make dumplings. I made a whole package worth of dumpling wrappers, so I froze most of them. To freeze uncooked dumplings, you just put them on a tray in the freezer for a couple

Ginger Apple Crisp

Ginger Apple Crisp

I enjoy reading recipes and food blogs online, but I have this pet peeve when someone writes a review to the tune of: "I made this recipe, but substituted 3/4 of the ingredients and cooked it differently: 3 stars". Dude, this review tells me nothing about the

Veggie Strata

Last night we had a friend over for dinner and I made meatloaf (see new edit!). I optimistically bought a herb focaccia, but there was a lot of food and we barely made a dent in it. By today I could tell it was already getting stale, so when I

FWD: Baked "Peati"

Baked ziti is delicious, but definitely falls into the category of not that healthy. I decided I wanted to make some baked ziti and found a chickpea based pasta called Banza which totes 25g of protein and 13g of fiber. I've had mixed luck with bean based pastas

Orange Marmalade

Orange Marmalade

Winter canning usually does not hold a candle to summer canning when there are tons of delicious fruit and berry jams to be made. However, orange marmalade is delicious and one of the cheapest and simplest preserves you can make. One of the great things is you don't

Veggie Meatballs with Spaetzle and Mashed Cauliflower

Veggie Meatballs with Spaetzle and Mashed Cauliflower

Surprise! This may look like a shortbread castle (and it is!), but this post is actually about a delicious dinner I made a few months ago. I've always loved veggie meatballs, but sometimes the typical spaghetti and meatballs gets a little old. Recently, I tried making spaetzle and

Eggnog French Toast

Eggnog French Toast

Happy Eggnog season! Whatever solstice celebration you're observing, most people can get behind eggnog. I actually didn't like eggnog for a long time because I thought it was too powerful. However, I have come to really enjoy it in recipes - like this french toast. I

Chia Seed Pudding Parfait

Chia Seed Pudding Parfait

Chia seeds are pretty in right now - they're like almonds in the mid-2000s. In some regions of the internet, scientists estimate that chia seed pudding recipes outnumber cat photos. How will this blog stand apart from the myriad of chia seed pushing posts? Where's the

Vegetarian Meatloaf

Vegetarian Meatloaf

[Edit 10/21/18 - after reading about meatloaf in The Food Lab, I decided to add some mushrooms - it was a big improvement and I've updated the recipe below] [Edit 11/17/18 - after reading a recipe on Smitten Kitchen, I've also updated

Matcha French Toast with Coconut Mango Sauce

Matcha French Toast with Coconut Mango Sauce

A few months ago one of my friends had a South East Asia themed dinner party. Japan is more Eastern than South Eastern Asia, but I went ahead with a matcha-based recipe because I had been given a challah earlier that day and this was the only way I could

White Bean Tomato Stew

White Bean Tomato Stew

Here's a quick recipe with no photos. The post photos is totally unrelated, except that this would be a good recipe for a snowy day (not that we really have them here in San Francisco). When I make it again, I'll try to take some pictures

Latkes

Hanukkah fell on New Year's this year, so we had a pretty awesome Hanukkah party. We had nine people, so it was pretty important to have enough latkes. Unfortunately, as you can see from the picture, we may have over prepared on the potato front. Here's

Carrot, Sweet Potato & Goat Cheese Quiche

Carrot, Sweet Potato & Goat Cheese Quiche

This year, I received a garnishing set for Christmas/Hanukkah. I was initially at a loss as to what to do with twelve specialized (think corn kernel remover) kitchen tools, but in the three days I've had it at home, I've already used four of the

Tea Party - Part I

Tea Party - Part I

This weekend we hosted a tea party for some our friends. We started doing tea parties when we found an adorable tea set at Goodwill for super cheap. If you’re interested in having some nice dishes for entertaining, but don’t want to spend $50-$100/place setting, I’

Granola - Part I

Granola - Part I

When the container of rolled oats hit its second birthday I decided it was time to do something with them. I’ve never had a great oatmeal made with rolled oats, so I decided to try my hand at granola. Joy of Cooking had a basic recipe which I adapted