This was the other dish I used the cast iron skillet for, over our brief Christmas visit. At home, we often make this as dinner, served over some quinoa, but for our Szechuan-themed Christmas eve dinner, it was a fine accompaniment to peanut chicken and a cucumber salad with rice wine vinegar.
Versatile, easy, delicious, […]
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Dinner Tonight: Easy Spicy Broccoli
29-Dec-07Fridge Raid: Stuffed Spaghetti Squash
13-Dec-07I like winter squash. It’s in season, it’s hardy, and it’s often very local. But usually, in my kitchen, it winds up in the same old soup. I like squash soup, but that gets pretty old. So I bought a spaghetti squash, which I’ve never played with before, and threw together […]
Maine Shrimp are Good Shrimp
09-Dec-07Saw a post over on Slashfood that Dec. 1 marks the official beginning of the Maine shrimp season.
An interesting factoid about Maine shrimp (Pandalus borealis): Apparently, although the species lives across the oceans of the world, the population in the Gulf of Maine does not migrate. Instead, just like the human Mainers, they […]
Dinner Plus Leftovers: Beans and Greens
09-Dec-07I didn’t grow up in Maine. Shocker!
I grew up south of the Mason-Dixon line. Not very far, but far enough that split pea soup was on the rotation at home and I developed an almost unnatural love for good savory cornbread. So although I can’t remember eating anything with long-cooking greens at […]
Dinner for Two: Skillet Hash
04-Dec-07My first exposure to TV cooking shows wasn’t Julia Child or the Galloping Gourmet. No, for me television cookery will always be epitomized by the manic grin of Martin Yan and his eponymous show, Yan Can Cook. I learned how to chop vegetables from him — the trick where you hold the flat […]