Breakfast: Almost a Recipe

I cook a lot, but I only blog occasionally. Why? Usually, because I’m trying out someone else’s recipe and I like to blog about recipes that I either develop or that have diverged enough for me to consider them my own. That leaves out most of what I eat.

Why do I do it that way? I like to read blog posts with recipes – even if I have no intention of ever trying the recipe. I’m weird like that, but I want to post more often. I like getting comments and talking to people about what I’ve written, and the only way to keep people engaged is to give them more stuff to talk about.

With that in mind I have a sorta recipe to share today. What’s a sorta recipe you ask? It’s almost a recipe, but it lacks specific directions, amounts, or even ingredients. Instead, it is a suggestion of what goes together based on what I like. It’s the sort of recipe outline that you can, and must, adapt to your own tastes. For the sake of convenience I will still post a recipe-type section at the bottom. [...]

A Wintery Roasted Dip

As the weather turns colder (and I resist turning on the furnace) I turn to warming, heavy foods like stews, chowders, and creamy dips. The cool weather also marks the the last regular farmer’s market of the season in central Iowa. My friend Alex and I braved the biting wind to pick up some of the last local produce until next spring. I used some of my prizes to make up a tasty roasted red pepper & eggplant dip. [...]