Tag: weekday

Somehow, chicken has become the default American protein. It's understandable, I suppose. We're still a meat and potatoes culture at heart; the day is far away that we will generally wholeheartedly embrace legumes as the …

The night my father died, I made dinner. It was a new recipe I was trying, a salad of roasted root vegetables, topped with a salmon filet, broiled in mustard. It was in …

<a title="Prosciutto Gruyere Appetizers" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/amusebouches/5303570373/"><img class="aligncenter" alt="Prosciutto Gruyere Puff Pastry Appetizers" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5007/5303570373_b51e15b4a7.jpg" width="500" height="333" /></a><br />And these hors d'oeuvres might be my new favorite form of excess. They are fabulous - buttery and crisp and …

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/amusebouches/5091892813/" title="Pumpkin Poblano 3 by The Domestic Front, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4130/5091892813_94051bfae9.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Pumpkin Poblano 3" /></a> It's October -- the nights are getting cold, the leaves are turning color (on the three trees in …

There are times when all I want to cook and eat is <a href="http://www.thedomesticfront.com/2009/06/30/all-my-eggs-in-one-basket-corsican-omelet/ ">super simple comfort food.</a> Then there are other times when I'm willing to put in a little (or a lot!) of …

This is not, as you may have divined, one of those recipes that yields beautiful food. Each bit is not an aesthetic delight, and this is not going to grace the cover of any …

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/amusebouches/4821427083/" title="Spring's Chicken-2 by The Domestic Front, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4082/4821427083_2a6efffd2b.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Spring's Chicken-2" /></a> One of the things I love most about writing a food blog is that people come out of the woodwork …