When Shawna Coronado sent me that image you see to your right and told me to make something with it for the 2009 Nude & Eco-Cheap Cooking Initiative, I got really excited. See, I love pumpkin and I love to make savory meals out of it. And I knew, knew I could make a delicious dish […]
Author: Chris Perrin
2009 Nude & Eco-Cheap Cooking Initiative Recipe 11 #meatlessmonday Homemade Creamy Tomato Red Pepper Sauce
Homemade Creamy Tomato Red Pepper Sauce Happy 2009 Nude & Eco-Cheap Cooking Initiative and happy #meatlessmonday! Hopefully you are enjoying many a meatless dish tonight, but if you’re out of delicious meatless ideas have I got one for you?! This one is super simple and delicious. I was actually inspired to make it when eating at […]
Fish, Chips, and Le Grand Lemon Confit & Pumpkin Seed Aromatic Sauce
Sadly enough, this brings us to the end of our culinary explorations with Le Grand’s gourmet raw sauces. (If you are not familiar with Le Grand, you can see all my thoughts here. If you are familiar, then let’s get to cooking: Fish, Chips, and Le Grand Lemon Confit & Pumpkin Seed Aromatic Sauce There was […]
Cucumber Fettuccini With Le Grand Garden Pesto Sauce
So, for the past few days, we’ve been talking about Le Grand’s delicious sauces. (Read here for an introduction to Le Grand’s gourmet raw sauces.) Yesterday, we made braised meatballs in sun-dried tomato pesto, today we’re going to try something different: Cucumber “Fettuccini” with Le Grand Garden Pesto Sauce So I think in my intro, I said […]
Braised Meatballs with Le Grand Sun-dried Tomato Pesto
So, yesterday we talked about Le Grand’s line of gourmet raw sauces (you can see all my thoughts here). Now, it’s time to cook with some of these delicious sauces. So today, we’re going to make: Meatballs Braised in Sun-dried Tomato Pesto I actually got this idea from the Le Grand website. On the site, Le […]
Le Grand’s Amazing Raw Sauces
One of my tweeps, Jen Woo, approached me a while back about a company called Le Grand’s line of gourmet raw sauces, asking if I had ever tried them. When I indicated that I had not, a five-pack of sauces showed up at my door, just begging me to cook with them. I have to be […]
Fantasy Top Chef & Avocado Soup
Okay, sorry I didn’t actually post this on the day of the episode, but here are the scores for this week are: Me: 11 Michele: 9 Josh: 8 Debbie: 7 Karen: 6 Elise: 6 Colleen: 5 Again, I should be feel something (other than pure glee) about the fact I am in first place by […]
Penny’s Low Fat Desserts
Penny’s Low Fat Desserts Recently, one of my tweeps, PennysLowFatDes (the Twitter alter ego of Penny’s Low Fat Desserts) sent me a sample of some of her famous low fat cookies for me and my wife to try. They sent us Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies and Oatmeal Raisin Cookies . Within in 10 minutes of me getting home the […]
Can You Eat White After Labor Day? (Also, Happy #MeatlessMonday)
Okay, so the fashionistas all agree that you can’t wear white after Labor Day, but, I’m wondering about eating white after Labor Day. Think about it. If you can’t wear white, you’re probably wearing darker colors and if you spill… yikes! Who knows…maybe tomorow the manner experts are going to outlaw fettuchini alfredo, sugar cookies, […]
#letslunch Chilled Poached Pear Soup
You ready? Let’s lunch! Looking for something delicious for lunch today? How about Chilled Poached Pear Soup Ever since I tried pear soup at Trezo Vino in Overland Park, KS, I have wanted to make my own chilled pear soup. The soup I had at Trezo Vino was good and it certainly sounded exotic. Still, […]