Happy Valentine’s Day! Okay, I know it’s a couple days early, but I wanted to share some romantic Valentines Day dinner recipes for you in time to get your ingredients ready. Guys, if you’re looking for easy romantic recipes for your loved one, this is the place! She’ll be amazed at your prowess in the kitchen. Oh yeah, and it’s CHEAP! But she won’t think you’re skimping out if you make her a meal like this.
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A great use for boiled eggs that people don’t always think of is salad dressing. I often put boiled eggs in my salad, but the other day I realized they’re and ingredient in thousand island dressing, and decided I needed to try making my own. This dressing is tangy and rich, and goes amazingly with avocado and shrimp.
Happy Thanksgiving! Eric and I will be celebrating with my family, but from ages 18-25 I was single and on my own for Thanksgiving. Sometimes I’d go to a restaurant with another single friend. Sometimes I’d be invited to celebrate Thanksgiving with a friend and her husband. A couple times I cooked a Thanksgiving dinner for a few other single friends. One thing everyone seemed to agree on was that there’s no point in cooking the HUGE Thanksgiving recipes for just 1-4 people. It’s too much food, time, and expense. So I thought I’d share a collection of recent recipes I’ve posted that are perfectly sized for a newlywed (or retired) couple, a few single friends, or cooking for yourself. They’re also EXTREMELY affordable. The entire meal you see below is under $5 a serving!
I’m finishing up more event posts from the Foodbuzz Blogger Festival and some events with my friend Jaden in Seattle, but wanted to share a recipe with you in the meantime. A lot of people have asked me lately if I make up the recipes on my blog. Unless I specifically credit another author, I develop the recipes myself. It’s actually not that hard, I just kind of look at what I have on hand to work with, then smell and taste as I go until it’s something that I like. I thought I’d share my CRAZY thought process with you, so here’s a look into how to create a recipe.
Right now, I’m heading to San Francisco for the Foodbuzz Food Blogger Festival. But I made sure to schedule a post for you so you won’t miss me too much! I got a free cookbook in the mail the other day, it’s called “The New Thanksgiving Table”, by Diane Morgan (yes, free cookbooks are a great perk of being a food blogger!). As I flipped through the pages, I was impressed with the array of salads, sides, appetizers, turkey ideas and desserts. In the salad section, I saw one that I had almost all the ingredients for! I used Asian pears rather than Bosc, and shallots instead of red onion. I also changed the serving to be for just two of us, though made the full amount of dressing for future uses. We loved the salad, except the dressing was a little too salty, so that’s adjusted in my recipe below. I liked two techniques Diane uses that I hadn’t done before. One was soaking the red onion (or shallots) in cold water for 30 minutes to crisp them and take away the raw onion taste. The other was to soak the dried cranberries in the dressing to soften them. The recipe is at the end of the post, but first I wanted to share the latest Foodportunity with you!
