I like rice noodles and glass noodles too for that matter. I think it is because I never get to eat them at home. Anyway, I found a recipe to try. Hello Five-Spice Chicken Noodle Salad, I can make you at home and you look Yummy!


Five-Spice Chicken Noodle Salad (It was very yummy)

So this morning and I was having a little trouble deciding what to eat. I woke up starving so I ate some grapes. Then I realized that grapes wouldn't be enough so I decided to eat a banana too. Of course a banana and grapes aren't enough for breakfast. So I thought I would make a banana smoothie, but all I found to put in it was an orange. Orange banana juice type thing and grapes was what I had.

It didn't last very long. When all else fails eggs are really the best option. And if you follow Julia Child's omelet method it should only take about 30 second to cook! This morning was my first try. And I know what I'm having for breakfast tomorrow!

I made this for dinner the other evening. I know the recipe says that it is a breakfast dish but I added a little salad of pea shoots and called it dinner.

Quick, easy and tasty!

Pancake are a lovely weekend treat and I may have found one of the best recipes around. These pancakes are a tiny bit sweet, a little vanillaie,  fluffy, and always turnout perfectly! Even when I make adjustments to the recipe. I found the original recipe in Bon Appétit one Sunday morning when I had a serious hankering for pancakes and a little extra whole wheat flour that I wanted to use up. I have since adjust my version of the recipe to not include whole wheat flour because when I make pancakes I want them to be a treat not a reminder that I should be eating something more nutritious. (recipe after the jump)

Grapefruit! I like'm a lot but never seem to buy them. Unless I'm really craving one of course. But if a craving strikes I usually just buy one, bring it home and then spend the next hour or so eating it kind of like an orange while on the couch. Usually I'm also watching some sort of reality TV.

However thanks to Smitten Kitchen I have something new to add to my repertoire, Grapefruit Yogurt Cake!

In The Bowl

For Christmas I ask for kitchen things and boy did Santa deliver! I probably should have made some sort of New Years resolution about cooking instead of winning the Lotto Max. Although winning the Lotto Max would likely afford me a lot more time for cooking.

This week I made my second meal out of my new Melissa Clark cookbook, In the Kitchen with A Good Appetite. I must say that I have enjoyed this cookbook even though I haven't cooked much out of it yet. The cookbook is a good read, the recipes are fairly easy and quick and don't make enough to feed an army. Which I am happy about, because sometimes you want leftovers but you never want THAT many leftovers.

I made Red Lentil Soup With Lemon, which did not disappoint. In fact Scott, who agree to having soup for dinner only because I wanted it, announced that the soup was 100% better than expected. And this announcement brings me to the second dinner surprise, the sunflower encrusted soda bread which was pretty controversial. Who knew that seeds on bread could turn into roasty, crunchy, yummyness!

Winter Panzanella

Winter Panzanella

adapted from Panettone Panzanella with Pancetta and Brussels Sprouts

Bread salad, sounds delightful don't you think? It is something that has been in the back of my mind for a few years now, I just haven't gotten around to making it happen. Until two nights ago that is. Here we are in the middle of winter, (if you can call it that) and all I really want is a panzanella salad!! So I made one, a winter one, without a single slice of tomato. I will warn you, this may be the most delicious salad you have EVER had and, it may take you 2 hours to make.

My salad deviated a little from the recipe. I had half of a french country loaf that I used in place of the Panettone, I added a few dried cranberries to make up for the missing fruit. Boiled brussels sprouts have never really appealed to me but I do love them roasted, so mine were roasted. And finally I used mixes spring greens instead of the radicchio. Oh and also I think I changed my proportions a little. Mine was a little more salady and less bready.

The salad ate like a meal and I'm totally making it for dinner again tonight.

So Dinner.

So dinner.

Ever come home from work and wonder what to make? Here is the answer.

Linguine with Tomato-almond pesto

As it turns out, it is just about the quickest thing to make, EVER and it is totally delicious.

I would suggest that you give it a go!

Yes, I can actually cook.

When I cook I like to cook based on what I actually have around the house. And right now I have lemons. A lot of lemons! This is why I decided I needed to make sticky lemon chicken.

I know I said I was going to make it for dinner on Monday night. But I was to lazy and opted to just go out for Pho. However after dinner I was feeling a little less lazy and did manage to head over to the store and some ingredients. And last night I got down to business and made the sticky lemon chicken.

My clock must have been on fast forward because it took a little longer then the suggested 10 mins of prep time and 25 min of cooking time. But the recipe was easy and the chicken was nothing short of yummy!

If I didn't know better myself…

I would almost say that this is turning into a food blog! Tonight for dinner I think that I'm going to make Sticky Lemon Chicken. We'll see how that goes. Perhaps I will even have some pictures!