Easy Eats

This is barely a recipe - it’s what I do when I’m tired and I want something substantial, like last night. I go to the grocery store and find whatever steak-like meat is on sale for $3/lb and slap it on the grill (Lean Mean in my case) with kosher salt, pepper and […]

What to do with too much fresh picked fruit? How about an easy crisp! Great for fruit that have a gone a little too ripe for brown-bagging. I don’t bake very well, so this is all from my girlfriend. As long as you have the ingredients, it’s basically mix and and […]

We picked some great peaches and blueberries at Sauvie Island, very ripe and very delicious. I think I ate a pound of the stuff as we picked, there was fruit everywhere. My girlfriend got very adventurous and made us some peach and blueberry cobbler, which was mighty tasty. I’m tired so I’ll […]

I’ve decided that the most overlooked Easy Eat, especially for us busy students, is fruit. I mean, most of it is pre-packaged by nature, you just throw in a bag and eat it. But I rarely see people either eating fruit on campus or when I visit people’s pads I never see any […]

I always thought pesto was some special magical sauce. But really, you just stick 5 things in a blender or food processor and you’re done. The main hurdle was the price of the cheese and the pine nuts. If you try to find pine nuts in your local grocery store, you’ll find […]

The 54th Carnival of the Recipes is in town! I just found out about this, it’s like a travelling weekly post of a bunch of blogger’s recipes. I’m proud to be the ‘PreSchool’ recipe this week. . Check it out!

Initially designed to be a woodworking tool, clever chefs began buying these thin rods with hundreds of tiny stainless steel razors and used them instead in the kitchen. Although a bit on the expensive side (the Original Microplane, which I own, costs $12.95), I use mine virtually on a daily basis.
It’s compact and light […]

Wary of certain Asian foods? Well don’t be, especially of Korean-style BBQ. It’s some really tasty stuff. And it’s not hard to make yourself! You really need only the first four ingredients below, and some help from your trusty George Foreman grill…
Ingredients:

1 package of short ribs (about 1.5 lbs? see […]

I usually like to keep one “Meal in a Box” type of dinner kit in the house for when I am super tired and need to feed the pack of ravenous hyenas I live with house. So when I saw this 12 taco dinner kit on sale for $2.50, I went for it.
Ingredients: (* […]

Ever wonder what to do with that stale french bread, left over from last night’s dinner that now feels more like concrete than food? Make real french toast (or Pain Perdu)! Trust me, it’s twice as good as the stuff you make from WonderBread. And it’s even better with stale bread […]