Cooking Nigella Lawson’s Pasta With Pancetta, Parsley & Peppers
Thanks to my lack of posting, I’ve got quite a few folders packed with images of great looking food on my desktop just waiting to find their way to the internet. Hopefully I’ll get to all of them — or...
View ArticleCooking Nigella Lawson’s Vietnamese Pork Noodle Soup
While flipping through Nigella Kitchen by Nigella Lawson I was absolutely drawn to her Vietnamese Pork Noodle Soup recipe (page 82). So far under the spell was I that I ignored two very basic facts:...
View ArticleCooking Chic Sausage & Peppers Over Pasta
It’s fairly unusual that I repeat recipes several times in a fairly short period of time. It’s even more unusual that I should do this without writing about it here on Monkeying Around The Kitchen....
View ArticleCooking Alton Brown’s Sweet & Sour Pork
I haven’t tried as many recipes from my copy of Alton Brown’s Good Eats: The Early Years for a few reasons. First, I know the book is based on the chronology of the TV show, but I’m not a big fan of...
View ArticleCooking Nigella Lawson’s Beer-Braised Beef Casserole
A month or two back I sat down with my usual stack of cookbooks and wound up walking away with several recipes from Nigella Kitchen. I had about an equal number of hits as misses, but this one, more...
View ArticleMacGyvering Thai-Style Lentil, Coconut & Green Bean Soup
Do you have a blindspot when it comes to a certain aspect of cooking? I do and it comes in the form of the slow cooker. For some reason, my mind always forgets to remind me that I need to actually get...
View ArticleCooking Thai Chicken Soup
As I’m slowly discovering, I’m a big fan of Thai food or at least the combination of lime, chicken and coconut that I’ve been experiencing in the recipes I’ve tried. One such recipe was found in The...
View ArticleMATK Originals: Bangin’ BLTs
As a kid growing up, BLTs were pretty common in our house. They were the good, solid kinds that featured your basic toasted bread, bacon, lettuce, tomato and mayo combination, most often served with...
View ArticleCookbook Nook: My Big Blue Binder
I realized while writing yesterday’s post about the Ginger-Sesame Marinated Pork Loin that I’ve talked a lot about my Big Blue Binder without actually saying much about it. I stole this idea from my...
View ArticleCooking Disney’s Chicken Asiago Pasta
On our last trip to Disney World, I picked up the Chef Mickey cookbook by Pam Brandon and the Disney Chefs. Not long after getting back from that trip, I made a variety of recipes from the book, but...
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