Perfect One-Dish Dinners: Creamless Chocolate Mousse
Pam says that the whipped cream traditionally used in mousse dulls the flavor of the chocolate and I have to believe she's right because this mousse tastes like a truffle. The vanilla ice cream on the side is meant to compensate for the cream not being in the mousse...
Off Topic: Crispy Pan-Fried Pork Chops
Tonight I made a dish from the November/December 2010 issue of Cook's Illustrated. As per usual, the fine people at Cook's have solved one of our nation's most urgent and intractable problems: poor coating adhesion on our pork chops. Turns out using a little...
Perfect One-Dish Dinners: Quick, Creamy, Mushroom-Spinach Lasagna
This was a delicious and easy lasagna although not much quicker than my usual. I've never used cream cheese in a lasagna before and I'm sure it will make purists sniff with disdain but hey, it works. I made the vegetarian version with mushrooms and spinach as well as...
Perfect One-Dish Dinners: Baby Spinach with Beets and Toasted Walnuts
I always forget that I like beets, and you should too (like them that is, not forget about them). They're sooooo delicious and I'm sure they're full of things like antioxidants, or probiotics, or carbon offsets or something beneficial. I'm giving you a highly...
Perfect One-Dish Dinners: Giant Linzer Cookie
I worried about this cookie at several points during its creation. It was liked a troubled child who manages to pull it all together at some point and ends up a fine, upstanding adult (I can relate). My first issue was that you are supposed to bake the two "cookies"...