A Hungry Bear

provencal chicken with bearnaise

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

I haven’t seen the Julia Child movie, but I’ve been hit with the fever all the same - looking for dinner ideas in Mastering the Art of French Cooking. This is probably one of the easiest and most iconic of the JC recipes - chicken sauteed in herbs de provence, with a simple bearnaise [...]

cedar plank salmon

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

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I love the flavor that a cedar plank imparts on a piece of salmon when it’s grilled, but I had always assumed it was difficult to make so I only enjoyed this at restaurants. A couple of weeks ago, I was on a flight perusing one of those airline magazines (Delta’s Sky magazine actually) [...]

linguine with summer succotash

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

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Seeing Food Inc. (twice in the past week) has made me more grateful than ever for our recent discovery of fresh vegetables delivered from a local farmer - and also more inspired to try a vegetarian dinner every now and then. The sauce for this dish is simply pureed fresh corn, with all the [...]

soupe au pistou

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

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My mom used to make homemade vegetable soup as a way of cooking as many of our garden vegetables as possible (she was so resourceful - canning and freezing the vegetables in the summer, so we’d have them for soup during the winter!). I can imagine moms in France cooking this soup for their [...]

grilled halibut and vegetables provencale

Thursday, July 16, 2009

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My little container herb garden is growing like crazy these days, and I’m finding more ways than ever to incorporate them in unexpected ways (see this Bufala Negra drink for an unconventional way to enjoy basil). This recipe for grilled halibut and vegetables with fresh herbes de Provence caught my eye, as a way [...]

animal style burger

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

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Anyone who has ever traveled with me to the West coast knows that I’m obsessed with In-n-out Burger. When I was a vegetarian years ago, a co-worker of mine raved about “a burger that needs its own diaper”: the double-double animal style. I was on a business trip in Vegas shortly after coming [...]

asparagus and goat cheese pasta

Monday, June 22, 2009

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Everyone needs a one-dish meal like this one. I used asparagus because it had been in my fridge for a few days waiting for inspiration, but you could also use zucchini, broccoli, sugar snap peas, or whatever vegetables are in season. I also added a couple of grilled chicken breasts that I had [...]

bufala negra

Friday, June 12, 2009

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This drink is an unexpected union of my two favorite flavors, the classic Italian balsamic + basil combination and Maker’s Mark bourbon. I would never have imagined putting something like this together - but when I saw it on Food & Wine’s website (they have a beautiful cocktail slideshow for inspiration), I knew I [...]

olive tapenade stuffed chicken

Thursday, April 23, 2009

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Chicken thighs are cheap, but I’m always at a loss for how to make them. Recently I’ve been searching for new ways to try them, and found a recipe on foodblogsearch.com that was really compelling (3 exclamation points convinced me). I made some modifications, but it’s basically just chicken thighs rolled around a [...]

green goddess dressing with grilled halibut & salad

Saturday, April 18, 2009

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Molly Wizenberg wrote about green goddess salad dressing in her Bon Appetit column last month, and I immediately wanted to try it (her writing has that effect on a lot of people I guess). Until Molly’s article, I thought “Green Goddess” was just a brand of dressing made by Annie’s Organics, but I’ve never tasted [...]