Elise’s Dad’s Stuffed Peppers
October 11, 2009 at 12:00 am | In Dinner | 6 CommentsSince peppers are so cheap at the farmer’s market I wanted to do a simple and healthy meal for a fast Wednesday night dinner. (Gotta have time to watch Top Chef, ya know?!?) I thought about stuffed peppers and so went to my new favorite website (other than Deb’s) to find a simple and delicious recipe, Simply Recipes! Auntie Helen just loves that site and little by little I am becoming enamored too! Elise’s dad knows where its at when it comes to peppers, as it was a great combination of flavors. Although I could have kicked up the garlic amount or probably just added a ton more salt and it would have been absolute flavor perfection!
The green peppers are four for a dollar at the JFX farmer’s market right now and I love being about to converse in Spanish with the granjeros! And instead of choosing ground beef, Ned and I picked out some ground bison meat at Wegman’s to switch it up a bit. My favorite part was the ketchup/worchestershire/cholula topping- such great flavor. I think next time we make these I’m going to put that throughout the whole filling! So now we are off to watch Top Chef, Go Kevin!!! Check out the recipe here or below…
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October Charm City Cookbooking!
October 8, 2009 at 12:00 am | In Cookbooks, Dessert, Dinner | 7 CommentsThis month was Renee’s turn and so she chose The Inn at Little Washington (a cookbook we tried to choose earlier in the year but fell through!) The cookbook proved to have very tasty recipes, although the measurements and directions were off a bit at points, but we succeeded in the end! Here is the appetizer that I made, a marinated shiitake mushroom tomato concoction atop vermicelli! I don’t know if it was the hunger pangs or what, but we all just devoured it!
So go now and check out the rest of my post on our updated Charm City Cookbook Club site!
Deb’s Black Bean Confetti Salad
October 6, 2009 at 12:00 am | In Dinner | 6 CommentsDeb did it again! This quick and fresh salad was a hit! See recipe here and below!
There is something just so magical about cutting up tons of fresh beautiful peppers and then mixing it with black beans. Why you ask? Because this dish rocks my world! Especially the mexican part of me! Screw salsa, you need to try this on a tortilla chip. STAT. So the next time I need to bring appetizers to a party, I’m bringing this and maybe wearing the dress you see in the picture! The bowl will be empty in no time and I will be oh so stylsh. 
Abuelita’s asado de plaza
October 4, 2009 at 8:52 am | In Dinner | 9 CommentsThis meal is 100% authentic Mexican food straight from the streets of Mazatlan! (or from abuelita’s kitchen!). I basically observed the production of this meal, but it must be documented for posterity!
AND This meal is my 100% favorite comfort food in the world. Warm tortillas with tender and delicious meat and potatoes, and some homemade tomato sauce (which grandma calls salsa) that came from my daddy’s garden!
Impressive Blue Hill Tavern
October 2, 2009 at 7:37 am | In Dinner, Travels | 4 CommentsMy dear dear amiga Jesica has been traveling alot this month, as have I! We finally had a night in Baltimore when we were both free and so Jesica declared that she wanted to take me out for a birthday dinner! She told me to find a restaurant and I so obliged! Ned and I were looking at the City Paper Best of Baltimore Issue and I saw that the readers had voted Blue Hill Tavern as the best new restaurant in town. I figured that would be the perfect new place to check out!
We wined and dined and had a lovely evening on the terrace! The food was actually very impressive and totally delicious. Check out our fare below..
Blueberry BIG Crumb Cake for the Beach!
September 30, 2009 at 12:00 am | In Brunch | 16 CommentsThis crumb cake recipe will now become my standard for the rest of my life!!! Deb, newly momma Deb, can make a mean coffee cake! I found this recipe because I wanted to bring a nice breakfast treat for Kelly, Bethany and I for our Ocean City beach trip. We got to eat it on the balcony with some mimosas and a beautiful view of the ocean! Perfect bachelorette weekend bliss.
The crumbs for this concoction were incredible. Twice the size of the cake layer for this cake! Deb made it with rhubarb but I went with blueberries and they worked great!
A Mobbie for Me???
September 28, 2009 at 9:52 am | In Entertainment | 9 CommentsHappy Monday morning to all of my lovely and wonderful readers! Today is an exciting day because it is the kickoff day for the Maryland Outstanding Blog Awards voting! This is a shot I took of some sunflowers I picked up for abuelita yesterday at the JFX farmer’s market! She absolutely loveeeeed them and that made me very happy! So if you would so do me the honor, please click on this link here (and register for the baltimoresun.com here) and lets start this challenge going!
The voting continues until October 9th at 5 pm, so please get a vote in each day until that day! I am so excited to see how these awards turn out. I am most of all very excited to meet all of my favorite local bloggers at the Metro Gallery event for the Mobbies!
Ina G Pizza, Tyler F Salad, & Tom K Gazpacho!
September 27, 2009 at 12:00 am | In Cookbooks, Dinner | 15 CommentsThis was our Sunday night dinner from two weeks ago. It was comprised of my favorite quick pizza dough recipe from Ina Garten, a new delicious arugula salad from Tyler Florence and below you can see some gazpacho from Thomas Keller! All from cookbooks on our shelf and alllll very delicious!
I went astray from the pizza recipe and just put a TON of monterrey jack cheese (in the fridge) on the pizza dough, but I did include the garlic oil and that component is cruc! Delciously cruc. The ingredients for the salad are so interesting and I am completely addicted to it now. I have made it like 5 times since that night! Simple tasty ingredients combined together always make amazing dishes. And that statement leads us to the gazpacho… Gazpacho is summer health food for the soul. My friend Alice went to Spain in the spring and her amigos there swear by gazpacho as a weight loss solve! I can’t get enough of that stuff either, although the longer it sits in the fridge, the stronger the onion flavor becomes, so watch out!
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Savory Palmier’s for a 60th Birthday!
September 25, 2009 at 12:00 am | In Appetizer | 4 CommentsDarling Auntie Helen had a big ol party for her sweetie Bob’s 60th Birthday. Bob actually shares my birthday too so that is fun. 
I offered to make something and she said yes, appetizers!! I went straight to my standard cookbook for simple and delicious recipes: Back to Basics by the amazing Ina Garten!
I love using puff pastry, and using it to make palmier’s is even better! I stuffed the pastry with goat cheese, pesto, pine nuts and sun dried tomatoes. I used some old sun dried tomatoes I had stuffed in a glass jar, and they made the dish taste a little bitter. Luckily, the other ingredients helped to offset it and make the whole thing taste great! So just make sure you like the sundried tomatoes you are using! Check out the recipe below…
September Charm City Cookbooking: 1080 Recipes
September 23, 2009 at 7:08 am | In Cookbooks, Dinner | 5 CommentsWell boo ya new camera! We had cookbook club on Labor Day and even though we were missing Julie and Coralie, our men in attendance made up for it! We cooked from the 1080 recipes book and boy was I blown away with what we did! Alot of exotic dishes that I have never consumed, and even though I couldn’t finish about half of them, I was so impressed!
This is my favorite shot from the day. Shrimp with heads?? Doesn’t get much better than that. So we have started an exclusive Cookbook Club blog and so I will finish my post over there! Go check it out!
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