Main Dishes

Cheese and Mushroom Quiche

September 1, 2011

Here’s an entirely delightful dish that we’ve now enjoyed on several occasions – cheese and mushroom quiche! One of the few vegetarian dishes on my site, it came from Mollie Katzen’s New Moosewood Cookbook, which I find to be a marvelous resource despite my great love of meat. But Mollie Katzen has always been an [...]

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Eggplant Moussaka with Garlic-Yogurt Sauce

August 23, 2011

With all the wonderful, in-season garden tomatoes piling up and a few Amish eggplants I brought home from a farmer’s market two weeks ago (you won’t believe how well they keep in the crisper section of your fridge), I decided to throw together this easy moussaka-type dish. While different cultures have different traditional versions, here [...]

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Ahead of the Opening Day: Grilled Trout on a Bed of Creamed Morels

May 6, 2011

A joyous time is upon us – the trout season opens this Saturday in Wisconsin! With its multitude of clear streams and a serious DNR-managed stocking program, this area is a trout-fisherman’s paradise. But another seasonal specialty is on its way as well – wild morels! Here’s one way to combine these two seasonal treasures:

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Shepherd’s Pie with Leftover Chicken, Mashed Potatoes, and Gravy

March 31, 2011

Some of you might remember this wonderful chicken dish I learned from my mother-in-law. It didn’t really have a name other than “Grandma Kate’s Chicken,” until a friend pointed out that something like this would be called “smothered chicken” where she came from. I loved being given a more recognizable name for the dish we [...]

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Driftless-Transcaucasian Chicken Pot Pie

January 9, 2011

I threw this together a few days ago and, to my great delight (and perhaps also some surprise), it turned out to be so good that I can tell it will become one my signature classics. It came together a bit through necessity – I had some leftover roast chicken from the previous night, and [...]

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The Archetypal Azerbaijani Pilaf (via AZ Cookbook)

January 1, 2011

Although I have wandered far from my desert home of snowless winters and juicy pomegranates, I still miss my native cuisine, which, is my opinion, is among the best in the world. To make matters worse, some of it cannot be re-created quite in the same way outside the region, especially not deep in the [...]

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Kate’s Amazing Smothered Chicken

December 8, 2010

I’ve been meaning to share this amazing recipe with you ever since I started my blog. It originally came from Jacob’s late grandmother Kate, who I have never met because she passed away almost exactly four months before I got to the US. Now Kate was an amazing person – having spent her entire life [...]

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Easy Creamy Mushroom and Goat Cheese Pasta

November 17, 2010

Winter is on its way, so here’s a delicious, cold-weather recipe for ya – one of those things I throw together now and again and would never remember if I didn’t have this blog to scribble down how I made it. There are no pictures, so you’ll have to take my word for it! The [...]

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Delicious Roast Chicken with Maple-Balsamic Glaze and Caramelized Onions

November 10, 2010

(Sorry about the blurry pictures – still trying to figure this new camera and lenses.) I’ve been wanting to make a glazed chicken for a while, and I also happened to believe that chicken and onions go wonderfully together, and because I’ve burned onions before trying to caramelize them right on top of a roasting [...]

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Cream Pasta with Smoked Duck Breast

October 27, 2010

Remember the duck I smoked the other week? At that time, I didn’t describe how I used it in a meal, having decided that it deserved a separate post – this one. Now there’s not much meat on a duck, and what there is is contained primarily in the breast, so to make the most [...]

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