by TT Jr. on May 14th, 2012 | Recipes, Spreads & Sauces
I love bagels. I just love them, specifically toasted. And with cream cheese. They are so delicious when they are still hot and the cream cheese starts to melt on them. My favorite flavor is salt bagels, and they are delicious with plain cream cheese, but sometimes that gets a little boring. So, I decided to make a vegetable cream cheese to see how it tasted with my mom's yummy salt bagels. It tasted like heaven on a hot bagel. The sweet crunchy carrots with the tangy, slightly spicy chives against the salty, hot, soft, crunchy bagel is incredible.
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by TT on April 26th, 2012 | Recipes, Spreads & Sauces
In an attempt to broaden my 14 year old's seafood palate, I decided to cook tuna last week. Unfortunately, the fish counter that I visited had none available, so I went with her current favorite fish, salmon, and jumbo shrimp. Shrimp is a type of seafood that she doesn't like, but the rest of us do. I figured if I got her to try it again, it may start to be a seafood item that she likes. She adores coconut, so I thought some
coconut shrimp might do the trick.
Apparently, the lure of a coconut coating isn't enough
by TT on July 28th, 2009 | Appetizers, Recipes
While I thoroughly enjoy cooking and baking, sometimes the simplest of recipes makes the best dish. Over the past few weeks, I have found that to be true.
Last night, I decided to try a new recipe for baked ricotta. I was hoping for a flavorful dip that I could serve with lavash chips. To make this recipe two egg whites needed to be whipped until soft peaks formed. It seemed silly to use my stand mixer for 2 egg whites, so I whisked them by hand. While it wasn't tiring, it did require a bit of time, and when I
by TT on July 22nd, 2009 | Restaurant Reviews
Lazy weekend mornings and brunches are quite a pairing. While the advantage of staying in pjs as your make your own brunch at home is quite nice, the thought of having numerous food choices and no clean-up can make getting dressed worth the effort.
In an attempt to help those in the Northeast find the best brunch restaurants, I submitted a query to HARO (Help a Reporter Out) seeking recommendations for great brunch restaurants in New England and Upstate New York. Many, many recommendations were received and reduced to one restaurant per state. Unfortunately, Rhode Island and Vermont were not represented.
In
by TT on July 20th, 2009 | Recipes, Sandwiches
Recently, my husband and I have had more time to cook together on weekends. With less travel and fewer kid events due to summer, we have had more opportunities to experiment with new ingredients and recipes. As we both enjoy cooking, it has been a wonderful way to spend our free time.
After starting a Saturday morning watching food television, we were ready to do some cooking of our own. Having seen a feature on Greek food, we both were craving lamb and feta. The simple answer to this craving was to make gyros. We had lamb in our freezer and
by TT on July 17th, 2009 | Appetizers, Healthy Cooking, Recipes
Although I often refer to my husband's and my late Monday dinners as Tapas Night, not all of our meals consist of tapas dishes. We have had flatbread pizza,
fondue, and
salad, just to name a few alternate meals. However, for a significant portion of these dinners I make an assortment of appetizer dishes.
Although we vary our dinners, tapas is our favorite menu for this dinner. Eating appetizer-style dishes seems to lend itself to a slower paced meal, which is perfect when only two are dining. With the items brought to the table in their serving dishes, we
by TT on July 15th, 2009 | Healthy Cooking, Recipes, Salads, Side Dishes
Although I tend to be a planner, sometimes spontaneity can be quite nice. Late Friday afternoon, we went to the grocery store with no plan for our dinner. The only plan we had was to peruse our options at the butcher and base our meal around our meat choice.
After talking with the butcher, we decided to do a surf and turf combination of teriyaki steak tips and scallops. For a side dish, we wanted something that would compliment these items but that wouldn't take long to prepare. Being summertime and (finally) warm, a salad sort of dish seemed perfect.
I knew
