Tonight we wanted to make quesadillas. The problem is that we only had corn tortillas (the smaller ones) and they get a bit too crispy for a standard quesadilla. It’s a quick and tasty one. start warming up the tortillas in a non stick pan on another pan sauté the chicken (cut in 1/3 in […]
Last night we had some friends over and H wanted one of her favorites – pasta alla puttanesca. I like this dish in a couple of variations. This time we added a bit more tomato sauce
Last night we stopped by Trellis (@heathman hotel in Kirkland) for desserts and a drink. They have a great outside seating and although we live very close we actually had never been before. We ended ordering a dessert (sage honey flan), fries and wine. The flan had a great texture, but I really could not […]
Tonight I wanted to make a vegetarian carbonara dish. The thing is that if you take pancetta (or baken) out of the equation it becomes really tricky to give it that distinct flavor and extra dimension that this simple dish needs. It becomes even trickier when you don’t like that much cream in your sauces […]
Last Sunday a dear friend stopped by to hang out with me and H. We invited her to stay over for dinner and decided to make pizza. We were not prepared in a traditional pizza-sense, but we enough ingredients to pull it together. Lately I have been liking the traditional italian bakery style as it […]
