A Hungry Bear

broccoli rabe and ricotta pasta

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

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 [...]

1 rotisserie chicken, 2 dinners: mexican salad

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

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Here is the salad we had with the second half of the shredded rotisserie chicken meat last week. Over a bowl of naked mixed greens and baby romaine, I put some cubed queso cheese, chopped avocado, diced onion and a bit of sweet corn (the frozen bagged kind, thawed and drained). For the [...]

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 [...]

greek style braised pork

Friday, March 20, 2009

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Recently Food & Wine magazine had an interesting article that presented some classic Greek recipes in simpler, Americanized fashion. One of these was for a simple grilled pork tenderloin, served with pitas and tzatziki. But when it came time to cook this, we were in the middle of 3 straight days of rain [...]

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 [...]

the bread bible’s pizza

Friday, March 13, 2009

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You know how you start noticing something all the time only when it becomes important to you? Like you never notice different styles of roof shingles until you need to roof your house, or you really start noticing people’s glasses when you find out you need them yourself? (Maybe it’s just me.) [...]

bison burgers with cabernet caramelized onions

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

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New blog design, new burger recipe. This one was adapted from an article in February 2009 Gourmet, featuring 100+ ways to eat green. I’ve always liked bison, not because I knew it was environmentally friendly, but because I’ve heard it has the same high-protein and low-fat nutrition stats as a boneless skinless chicken [...]

french onion soup

Friday, February 20, 2009

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Everyone should have a good french onion soup in their cooking arsenal right? It's easy to make ahead, and if you have people over for dinner, you can serve them in crocks and broil the cheese topping in just a couple minutes.

double-beef chili

Friday, January 9, 2009

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Chili is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when you’re trying to plan a healthy dinner. But if you’re careful not to pile on too much cheese and sour cream (ahem), it’s actually a good balance. There’s a ton of protein, in this case from both the ground sirloin and [...]

leftovers for breakfast: turkey bacon and kale scramble

Friday, December 19, 2008

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The kale with roasted onion rings was made for this purpose: to try and recreate The Flying Biscuit’s bacon-collard scramble. It might not look that appealing (no offense to The Flying Biscuit, but neither does their version - greens scrambled in eggs have a beauty in the eye of the beholder), but it was [...]