A Hungry Bear

pasta with sun-dried tomato cream sauce

Monday, November 9, 2009

If there’s anything good about getting a cold, it’s having an excuse to make rich comfort food. I’ve been fighting off a bug for over a week now, and I’ve decided the best way to cope is with a lot of pasta. This recipe is perfect if you have a cold because it’s [...]

roasted cauliflower with kalamata vinaigrette

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

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I associate cauliflower with pre-packaged veggie trays and ranch-flavored dip. Other than the one time I tried a recipe that mixed it into a mac-and-cheese dish, I never think about eating it. So it really caught my attention when I saw it in Gourmet magazine, adorned with a little bit of chopped olives [...]

eggplant, olive and sopressata pizza

Monday, September 14, 2009

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Eggplant, when grilled or roasted, can be smoky, meaty and garlicky. When you combine it with salty sopressata, gooey provolone cheese, and briny green olives, you have a really great pizza. I adapted this from the original in August 2009 Gourmet - they provide instructions for how to grill the pizza outdoors if [...]

1 rotisserie chicken, 2 dinners: greek salad

Monday, May 25, 2009

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You can either call this a lame post (it’s not a recipe), or it might be helpful since it’s a good emergency meal idea to keep in the back of your mind next time you don’t have time to cook. Either way, it’s just something that we’ve been doing a lot of lately and [...]

dirty martini with blue cheese stuffed olives

Friday, May 8, 2009

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If I take a week off from posting and pick back up on a Friday happy hour, will you think I need an intervention? A and I took a few days off for Miami (where we could drink “real” mojitos as early as 11am, not that we would ever do such a thing) and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

grilled steak with arugula, fennel and orange salad

Thursday, December 11, 2008

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This recipe ended up only being “inspired by” the original in Food & Wine magazine. I fully intended to try it unadulterated, but ended up finding a good deal on NY strip (as opposed to skirt steak) while at the same time NOT being able to find fregola. (Side note: while I couldn’t [...]

why have I not heard of this? rich tomato sausage pasta with olives

Sunday, July 27, 2008

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I was looking for a baked pasta recipe on epicurious the other day - I wanted to find an easy-ish recipe that I could make, divide into 2 batches and freeze half of it for future use. I came across this recipe as the most reviewed, highest rated baked pasta in their archive, from [...]