Posted in Uncategorized on June 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You know the World’s Fair Grounds that you see when you’re driving on the Grand Central Parkway and the LIE?
Well, that’s where we live: Forest Hills, Queens. Our local park is Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, which is huge and includes a museum, a zoo, a botanical gardens, the USTA Tennis Center, Shea Stadium, a public theatre, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I wanted to give it a shot. I had leftover quinoa and a bunch of vegetables and some boneless skinless chicken breasts that I wanted to use… It ended up delicious–this is what I did.
I put a diced onion, carrot and a few cloves of garlic in a pyrex.
Then I added the cooked quinoa, green [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We try to eat macro once a week…Tonight was it…
Quinoa, roast beets and steamed broccoli, carrots, red onion and tofu. The sauce was also really simple…Black bean paste, rice wine vinegar, soy sauce and sesame oil.
Posted in Uncategorized on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes when we’re busy cooking for the week, we make something super easy for dinner, which is what we did tonight. As easy as it is, it is actually one of our favorites, and one of the cheapest.
Stuffed baked potato… With: Chopped avocado tossed with lime, salt, and chopped red onion; Cannellini beans (left over [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One way we save lots-o-money is by bringing our lunch to work every day. In NYC, even a cheap lunch is around $10. We’ve figured out that our lunches usually cost around $3, so we save around $35 EACH a week.
Most of the time, we pack up our lunch the night before so it is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Fairway is hands down the greatest grocery store around. There are 4 in the New York area… 2 in manhattan, 1 in Red Hook Brooklyn, and one in Plainview. We’ve been making the trip out to Plainview once every couple of weeks, and while there’s no bulk section, it delivers in every other [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is hands down the easiest and best bread to make. And when I say hands down, I mean it… there is NO KNEADING INVOLVED. You won’t believe that you actually made it yourself, it tastes like it came from a fancy french bakery… and it really couldn’t be any easier. You [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
After a long week, Matthew and I like to stay in on Friday nights, regroup, reconnect and relax. Some of our best meals have been cooked on Friday nights. An old standby is roasted chicken. People are always asking me, “How do you roast chicken?”. Its actually quite simple, and it [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I (Alexa) was feeling like comfort food tonight, AND we had some potatoes that we had to use before they went bad, so I made a jumbo potato pancake.
I grated 2 potatoes, 1 onion, and 3 carrots in the cuisinart, mixed in 2 eggs, some panko, 2 chopped scallions and salt and pepper. Then I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Pasta night and we are going through a MAJOR orecchiette phase.
I made a simple sauce with onion, garlic, Pomi chopped tomatoes and frozen chopped spinach (and red pepper flakes).
We had some cherry tomatoes that were on their way out, if you know what I mean, so I roasted them with some garlic. I roasted them [...]
