tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64533739129454756002024-03-07T22:13:48.037-08:00Sapid & SweetMaevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01293108652857848803noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453373912945475600.post-52854186656995660162009-12-01T14:11:00.000-08:002009-12-01T14:49:17.263-08:00Spiced Brandied CherriesJon and I, wanting to replicate those really delicious black cherries you'll find in your drink at cocktail bars that pride themselves on freshly squeezed juices and handmade elixirs decided to try our hand at homemade maraschino cherries. I waited until the height of cherry season back in August when you can score a huge bag for next to nothing and decided on the recipes featured in this New Maevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01293108652857848803noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453373912945475600.post-40643949364492335972009-10-07T11:16:00.000-07:002009-10-07T11:46:59.110-07:00Lentil and Roasted Vegetable Salad with Yogurt Tahini DressingThis is a great way to show off colorful fall produce like purple and yellow carrots or various hues of cauliflower. The sweet roasted vegetables, smokey spices, and earthy lentils come together with a bright and tangy yogurt tahini dressing for a light meal perfect for when the weather's just starting to cool down. Lentil and Roasted Vegetable Salad with Yogurt Tahini DressingServes 21/4 head Maevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01293108652857848803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453373912945475600.post-10927333579726822182009-10-07T10:50:00.000-07:002009-10-07T11:16:18.232-07:00Southwest Salad with Cornbread CroutonsWarm and crisp from the oven, the croutons on this salad are a delicious way to use up leftover cornbread. Especially if it's started to go a bit stale. And with corn, sweet potatoes, and black beans it's a filling and substantial salad perfect for a light dinner or hearty lunch. Southwest Salad with Cornbread CroutonsServes 22 tbsp buttermilk1/2 tsp chopped chipotles in adobe1/2 tsp honey1 Maevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01293108652857848803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453373912945475600.post-38135675670932308892009-10-07T09:55:00.000-07:002009-10-07T10:50:44.561-07:00Baked Eggs in HamFor their impressiveness, these are pretty simple. In fact the really hard part is communicating to your deli guy how thick you want the ham to be sliced. I went in with the wrong approach telling him I'd like them a 'little thicker'. To me, this meant not the paper thin slices you'd want piled on a cold sandwich, but you know, something just a little thicker. He started pinching his fingers Maevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01293108652857848803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453373912945475600.post-31008399423244552452009-09-08T10:09:00.000-07:002009-09-08T18:13:15.410-07:00Heirloom Tomatoes, yuck!I'll admit it, I've bought heirloom tomatoes for $6.99/lb just cause you know, they're heirlooms, so they must be better than regular tomatoes. But then you get them home, and they're not. In fact they have a mushy, overripe texture and less flavor than those Mexican grape tomatoes sold in plastic clamshells all year long. But when you see that display the next time around with 5 different Maevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01293108652857848803noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453373912945475600.post-30074177704771662682009-08-25T13:06:00.000-07:002009-08-25T13:41:16.490-07:00PopsiclesI bought some Popsicle molds earlier this summer and have found some really delicious, and lowfat treats to make with them. The cherry yogurt pops are a great way to use up less than perfect fruit and could be made with other berries or stone fruit just as easily. And the addition of cocoa to the Vietnamese Coffee popsicles turn them into a delicious grown up fudgecicle. I made mine decaf so IMaevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01293108652857848803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453373912945475600.post-79300244946671832162009-08-05T12:49:00.000-07:002009-08-06T18:18:08.773-07:00California Road TripWhen I moved out west 3 years ago and bought my first car in nearly 6 years, I had this fantasy of driving down the coast to California wine country where I'd meet up with my other west coast friends for a long weekend of wine tasting in the pastoral countryside. Unfortunately I'd imagined it to be a much shorter drive than it is. And well, I kinda gave up on my dream road trip. It turns out, Maevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01293108652857848803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453373912945475600.post-90061337718532027452009-08-04T09:46:00.000-07:002009-08-05T20:04:47.159-07:00Farmer's Market TourJon and I visited with Jon's dad in Berkeley the weekend before last and when asked what I wanted to do while we were in town, I immediately suggested a visit to the farmers market. To be honest, since moving to Seattle I've become less and less enchanted with farmers markets. But I suspect it has more to do with Seattle than with farmers markets in general. And the Berkeley Market is supposedMaevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01293108652857848803noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453373912945475600.post-84970913956402369142009-07-13T18:01:00.000-07:002009-07-14T14:21:26.591-07:00Socca and Soupe au PistouI've been wanting to make Socca, a chickpea crepe made in Nice, similar to the Italian Farinata, for some time. Chickpeas have long been one of my favorite foods and I'm somewhat fascinated with their varied uses in ethnic cuisines. This is a particularly fast and easy recipe using chickpea flour (Though according to some sources, the batter should rest for several hours - I usually start the Maevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01293108652857848803noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453373912945475600.post-39872963991379740682009-07-13T14:31:00.001-07:002009-07-14T10:50:17.445-07:00Remodel Complete and S'mores!Last weekend, Jon and I hosted our first party in over six months. We started gutting the kitchen the last weekend in January and have been working consistently ever since. And what a change it has made! The layout is much more open now and great for entertaining. The counters are a beautiful white quartz which is really a joy to cook on - no worries about staining or scratching, and so easy Maevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01293108652857848803noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453373912945475600.post-90855317498284191572009-06-29T09:49:00.000-07:002009-07-01T23:19:56.257-07:00Savory SnacksI made the mistake of asking my father what he might want for a fathers day treat. I was imagining all sorts of decadent chocolate concoctions, perhaps with gooey peanut butter or crispy bits of toffee. But to my surprise, when I asked, he told me he was trying to lay off of chocolate for a while. I was lost. I had no idea what to make. Somehow all the other flavorings you might add to Maevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01293108652857848803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453373912945475600.post-67295580736414784422009-06-17T16:52:00.000-07:002009-06-18T12:09:43.555-07:00Strawberry Buttermilk CakeI've seen this cake in the June issue of Gourmet, and then on SmittenKitchen, and then on several other blogs. If fact, I feel like I've seen it, or a version of it just about everywhere I look lately. And, I've been wanting to try it for some time. The original recipe features raspberries, but suggests it would be equally yummy with other berries, and since I'd picked up some luscious, and Maevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01293108652857848803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453373912945475600.post-84153012900568395392009-06-17T16:04:00.000-07:002009-06-17T16:26:51.086-07:00Tofu-Asparagus SaladI'm not a huge fan of sushi restaurants. Sure they'll often have atleast a couple vegetarian options, but they're often uninspired and leave you feeling as though you'd like a real meal after that nice light snack you just had. But recently Jon and I went to a new sushi place in Ballard (MoshiMoshi) that I loved! Mostly because of their asparagus tofu salad, with silken tofu, blanched Maevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01293108652857848803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453373912945475600.post-10824326557371505692009-06-10T11:46:00.000-07:002009-06-17T16:04:19.880-07:00Pink Grapefruit MargaritasOf course I'm way too classy to buy jugs of margarita mix. But, I'm not above frozen drinks, and I'm not above adding a little extra fruit. Pink Grapefruit is an obvious choice, it is refreshing, tangy, a little bit sweet, and adds a lovely pink blush to the drink. Plus, it's not so "girly" that boys are necessarily opposed to drinking it.This recipe makes a rather slushy, and immediately Maevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01293108652857848803noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453373912945475600.post-6030212640088883752009-06-01T10:17:00.000-07:002009-06-01T11:21:24.835-07:00Homemade Veggie BurgersBack before you could find garden burgers in every grocery store and on the menu at just about every diner, sports bar, and burger joint it was a lot of work to make a vegetarian burger. Growing up there were 2 kinds I liked - one was a powdered mix, similar to a falafel mix that rehydrates and formed a pretty tasty grain based burger, the other were my mom's tofu burgers. Her recipe combined Maevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01293108652857848803noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453373912945475600.post-5684139875697982562009-05-30T18:20:00.000-07:002009-06-01T10:01:18.138-07:00The Kitchen GardenWhen Jon and I first met he loved telling his friends that I grew my own herbs. At that point, it was just a couple pots outside my front door. He also liked to garden - one of his first gifts to me was a homemade wooden box filled with his own tomatoes. Half of which were delicious, and half of which were a strange spongy consistency, and well, not something you'd want to eat. But out of Maevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01293108652857848803noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453373912945475600.post-90157464142022981512009-05-27T21:56:00.000-07:002009-05-30T18:16:21.064-07:00What to Serve with Mashed PotatoesI love potatoes! All kinds of potatoes prepared all sorts of ways - potato soup, potato salad, roasted potatoes, fried potatoes, and of course mashed potatoes. But for way too long I struggled with what to serve with mashed potatoes. They make sense with meat. All you need is a big slab of meat and mashed potatoes and you've got a meal. But what do you serve when you want that 'meat and Maevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01293108652857848803noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453373912945475600.post-37506511917954811992009-05-16T12:27:00.000-07:002009-05-17T10:04:03.928-07:00White Bean & Crimini BruschettaI love white bean bruschetta in it's simpler forms, with some roasted garlic and a bit of rosemary or thyme it's creamy and earthy and so easy to bring together. This is a slightly dressed up version that adds sauteed mushrooms both as a juicy topping and combined in the puree for another earthy component adding depth and richness.This can be made in advance, but is best served at room Maevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01293108652857848803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453373912945475600.post-25150570226708098752009-05-11T13:06:00.000-07:002009-05-17T10:11:27.402-07:00Indian Spiced Chickpea SaladLast fall I'd eagerly awaited the opening of Poppy, Jerry Traunfeld's experiment with Indian influenced dishes in a 10 dish thali presentation. He offers 2 a night - one with meat and one vegetarian, as well as an abbreviated 6 dish thali of each. Perhaps it was just that our expectations were set so high from months of chatter and promises that this would be one of the best new restaurants ofMaevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01293108652857848803noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453373912945475600.post-47906258060589902822009-05-11T12:23:00.000-07:002009-05-11T13:03:54.636-07:00Orzo with Favas and PeasBefore moving to Seattle I'd never eaten fava beans, and rarely heard anyone talk about them. Since then they seem to be becoming more and more trendy. My first summer here, I ended up at Restaurant Zoe and had the most amazing meal. The only vegetarian main course portion they serve is a seasonal risotto. Which is fine by me - they serve some of the most delicious risotto you've ever had. Maevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01293108652857848803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453373912945475600.post-26786204295961166382009-05-06T13:21:00.000-07:002009-05-08T11:23:57.389-07:00Sophisticated Ice Box CookiesI've been researching cookies for the last couple weeks trying to find just the right thing to make for mother's day. I wanted to find something that was delicate (and feminine) enough for the holiday - something that would pair well with a cup of afternoon tea. And something appropriate for the time of year - nothing too rich, or dark, or dense. And, because I live across the country from my Maevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01293108652857848803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453373912945475600.post-49197353994311720662009-04-26T20:13:00.000-07:002009-04-26T20:33:22.196-07:00Perfect Black BeansI'm usually fine using beans out of a can. But every now and then, I get the urge to actually use the dried kind. It does take much longer, and is sometimes disappointing, but this recipe makes the wait worth it. With a little advanced planning, it's actually very easy and the consistency and flavor are far superior to anything you can do with canned beans.We had them with fajitas, which were,Maevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01293108652857848803noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453373912945475600.post-64051410734478241212009-04-25T16:26:00.000-07:002009-04-25T16:49:12.148-07:00Tofu CreamFor a light and quick dessert, this couldn't get any easier. I came across a recipe from Martha Stewart for a lemon cream served with blackberries, but after adding the lemon it tasted a lot like, well, tofu. So I added a bit of spice that nicely covers the soy flavor and pairs perfectly with the honey and maple syrup for a delicate chai like combination.Tofu CreamServes 41 block silken tofu1/Maevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01293108652857848803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453373912945475600.post-86813786783348123282009-04-11T18:15:00.000-07:002009-04-14T13:11:28.213-07:00Enough Sunshine to GrillLast week we were lucky enough to enjoy a good 5 days of warmth and sunshine - highly unusual for Seattle! Which inspired me to use our grill and make a trip to the Ballard Farmers Market where I picked up some sunchokes, a beautiful mix of new potatoes, and some adorable little cabbages - red and green. I picked up a few more things at the store and our friend brought some homemade venison Maevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01293108652857848803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453373912945475600.post-52020833683678873572009-04-11T16:34:00.000-07:002009-04-11T17:53:37.978-07:00Vegan SoulI read about the new Vegan Soul Kitchen cookbook on 101 Cookbooks and was really excited to try a few recipes. Primarily because I've been wanting to attempt some seitan recipes. It's something I've always been a bit scared of, but I've had some really delicious preparations both here in Seattle and in New York. But when I mentioned it to Jon, he was somewhat suspicious that soul food could beMaevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01293108652857848803noreply@blogger.com0