A Hungry Bear

olive tapenade stuffed chicken

Thursday, April 23, 2009

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 [...]

guacamole revisited

Monday, April 13, 2009

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I’ve made guacamole on AHB before, and while I still stick to my original recipe of no-recipe-at-all, I’ve been making it more often recently and found a few new tricks that make it even better. So just in case you don’t have your own non-recipe down pat, let’s review this one.

tzatziki sauce

Monday, March 23, 2009

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Tzatziki sauce, or the Greek yogurt-cucumber sauce, is really quite easy to make. I could have picked any number of simple recipes on Epicurious or in my “food ideas binder” that I’ve been saving. But when it came down to it - pita dough was rising, pork was marinating - I wanted to [...]

football sunday onion dip

Sunday, November 23, 2008

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A loves french onion dip: the gnarly, plastic-y “helluva good” brand french onion dip in a can. I can barely stand to look at the stuff, not to mention taste it. The label includes about 57 chemicals and “powdered” flavoring. Needless to say, I don’t buy it unprompted. When I saw [...]

football food: creamy spinach artichoke dip

Monday, October 20, 2008

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A and I don’t really have “date night” since he’s in grad school, but we do have “date football” on Sunday afternoons. If both our teams (Panthers & Steelers) are on at the same time, we bring the second TV down from the bedroom and set both up side by side. We’ll make [...]

chef sev cracks the benihana code: yum yum sauce

Monday, May 12, 2008

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I have always loved a good “Japanese steakhouse” — in college my friend Morgan and I would save up for special occasions to go over to the hibachi grill for the early bird special (2 for $19.95!). While I love the highly trained grill masters who can create little bunny rabbits out of shrimp [...]

guacamole

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

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I’m obsessed with avocados in any form, so guacamole is one of my favorite foods. This is how I normally make it, although you can make this as basic as avocado, lime juice and salt and it would still be delicious.