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What's for Dinner? v9.32: Hitting the Sauce

Well, my original plan for this WFD diary was to write (a bit late) about Lunar New Year and the associated Vietnamese foods. My BF is Vietnamese-American, and his family's Tet party is a very big deal...

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What's For Dinner: Sweet, Sweet Pi

You come to me on National Pi Day and want to know what's for dinner? Pull up a chair and let's talk a bit.Now, I get my best thinking done when my hands are doing something familiar, so excuse me if I...

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What's for Dinner? v9.34: Gỏi cuốn, Chả giò, & Unidentified Frying Objects

What's For Dinner? is a community forum published every Saturday at 4:30pmPST. Conversation is about food, recipes, cooking, and eating. Join the party! What's for dinner earlier this week were some of...

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What's For Dinner? v9.35 - squash curry casserole

A couple years ago I googled "butternut squash recipe" and found Baked Rice with Butternut Squash, which is really good. I had the idea to turn it into a Thai coconut milk curry, and I like that even...

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What's for dinner? v9.36: Easter edition

Tonight's diary has a split personality. I only have one recipe, but it's a good one: vegetarian beer-baked beans. It's one of my favorite dishes to being to summer potlucks because it's high in...

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What's for Dinner? v9.37: Simple Crusty Bread

As I find myself having lots more time now to cook I decided to get back into baking my own bread. I haven't done it in a long time since it does take up a bit of time. Don't get me wrong, it's not...

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What's for Dinner? v9.38: 6 Pound can of Tomatoes, Doggy Biscuits and ANZAC Day

One thing I do miss about living in Texas is growing beautiful red/orange/yellow sun-kissed juicy tomatoes 4-6 months a year (or some years more!) that I could turn into tomato sauce or paste or, of...

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What's For Dinner? v9.39 - Beans

Beans, beans, they're good for your heart... There's more truth in the old grade-school joke than we thought; the health benefits of high-fiber foods weren't well understood then. -----A genre of...

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What's For Dinner? v9.40: Spring Holidays

Time for another diary on holiday cookery!Spring in the Jewish calendar isn't quite as densely packed with holidays as autumn, but last month we had Pesach (aka Passover), and next month we'll be...

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What's For Dinner? v9.41: Vintage vacation edition

Some time ago, I bought a lot of 200 vintage beach postcards for ten bucks on eBay. Surely I'd come up with a way to upcycle such a find. It came to me in my downstairs guest bath as I found myself...

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What's For Dinner? v9.42 - Historical Food

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I'd fairly recently discovered the variety of books on the subject of food history. To start with, the concept includes several different sub-genres: some writers focus...

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What's for Dinner? v9.43: Mauro Giuliani Roasted Potatoes with Asparagus

For this recipe, you will need 1 Pepe Romero 1 Neville Mariner 1 Chamber Orchestra of the Academy of St. Martin In the Fields(If Messrs. Romero and Mariner are otherwise engaged, or if you haven't room...

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What's for Dinner? v9.44: My Mediterranean Ring of Fire

Lebanese Taste Treats Most people think of a "Mediterranean Diet" as foods from Greece, Southern Italy and Spain, but have you looked at a map of the Mediterranean Sea? What about all the other...

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What's for Dinner? v9.45: A Bowl of Comfort

Perhaps the beginning of June is not the best time to write about hearty soups and stews. ninkasi23 and esquimauxbothwrote about them back in December and January, when it might have been a little more...

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What's For Dinner v9.46 - Songs about Food

People don't just eat food, we think about food, and write books about it, and sometimes even sing songs about food.I decided to limit my list to (mostly) songs that I could actually connect a recipe...

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What's for Dinner? v9.47: Mozart Golden Root Soup

Back in 2010, my friend Giles Goat Boy was trudging around in the snow in Madison, Wisconsin with a sign that said "I thought Cairo would be warmer." I hadn't met him yet, but I saw that sign. It fed...

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What's for Dinner? v9.48: The Magical Binder

I used to have the most disgusting chore assigned to me when I was a kid. Not the litter box, not scrubbing the bathroom, not getting all the terrible things under my brother's bed and putting them in...

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What's for Dinner? v9.49: Food & Family, a Genealogical Journey of Recipes

When I was growing up I spent many weeks every summer flying from my home in Brewer, ME to Danville, IL to visit my paternal grandmother. My dad died when I was young and he had been an only child so...

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What's for Dinner? v9.50: A Corny Summer's Stovetop Bounty

Lovely Fresh Corn And you thought this was going to be exclusively about corn? Non, mon ami, it has been so hot here that oven cooking is out of the question and grilling is reserved for the weekends...

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What's For Dinner? v9.51 -- Lamb

In my last WFD someone in the comments was eating lamb chops, reminding me that I love lamb and hardly ever eat it. So I got a nice piece of  "lamb steak" and I'm having shish kebab.

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