A Hungry Bear

stir fry bok choy with ginger and garlic

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

You might have noticed the greens peeking out under the steak I posted yesterday. They were a perfect complement to the steak, since it lent some extra ginger garlic sauce for dipping the meat into. This dish could also work with a little rice and maybe some simple grilled salmon. I found [...]

chicken under a brick

Friday, August 14, 2009

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This looks like a pretty normal piece of roast chicken, right? But if you could bite into it, you’d notice it has crispier skin and is a lot juicier than normal. As usual, the Italians figured out a better way to cook something. In this case, it involves pressing a brick on [...]

dinner with the marshes: sausage and pepper pasta

Monday, July 6, 2009

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Last month I had the good fortune to work a few days at the home office of my coworker and his wonderful family. I have heard about his sausage and caramelized bell pepper pasta before, and even attempted to make it once. But I was WAY off… And it wasn’t just the [...]

broccoli rabe and ricotta pasta

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

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Part of our produce delivery from our CSA last week was broccoli rabe. Since you don’t have a choice in what produce is delivered (whatever is in season and ripe - that’s what you get!), I had to get over my long-time avoidance of this bitter vegetable. The only time I had made [...]

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 [...]

lamb and eggplant shepherd’s pie

Monday, March 16, 2009

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I’ve wanted to try more greek recipes since my parents returned from sailing around the Greek islands. My mom became so enamored with the food and the culture that she actually decided she’d be called “yia-yia” instead of some version of “grandma” when my niece was born. And still here I’ve sat, cooking [...]

steak with olives and parsley

Monday, March 9, 2009

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I clipped this recipe out of Gourmet a year ago, and stuck it in my “food ideas” binder with all the other recipes I intend to try at some point. I honestly can’t believe it has taken me a year to get to this - it’s steak, it’s fast, and the few ingredients are [...]

roast chicken with pancetta and olives

Saturday, March 7, 2009

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Whole chicken legs (drumsticks + thighs) are so inexpensive, but I don’t know too many ways to prepare them that don’t involve breading and frying. There’s always braising, which is more time consuming, and is so rich that it reminds me too much that I’m not eating a healthier all-white-meat chicken breast. This [...]

love your steak, part 2: roasted garlic butter

Sunday, February 8, 2009

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As I mentioned yesterday, this is the second of two of my favorite steak sauces. I’m not sure if this is the way they make the roasted garlic butter at Kevin Rathbun Steak, but it’s so good I don’t mind. I served this recently with roasted brussel sprouts with pancetta and sweet potato [...]

garlicky kale with roasted onion rings

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

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There’s a popular breakfast spot in Atlanta called the Flying Biscuit, and one of their signature plates is a turkey bacon and collard green scramble. For whatever reason, I started craving this the other day. But who’s going to get up and start cooking greens at 6am? I needed leftovers for this… [...]