Pass The Sushi!

I have been super busy the past few days try­ing to get some aprons out and fin­ish up a new site — not to men­tion try­ing to fig­ure out twit­ter for my store, face­book­ing for this site and all the other crap that comes along with social media. I enjoy being busy. Actu­ally, I really don’t know what to do when I have noth­ing to do. I get stir crazy really really quickly. There’s always a project to start or some­thing new to try in the kitchen. It’s the whole ‘birds are singing, suns shin­ing, we’re burn­ing day­light’ atti­tude. Read the rest of this entry »

Some nights you just know you can cook. Tonight was one of those nights. Din­ner was sim­ple, easy, healthy and deli­cious. When I could smell it almost all com­ing together it didn’t mat­ter if it would sound inter­est­ing to any­one else, take a good pic for the blog, or get me more fol­low­ers. All that mat­tered is that I knew it would taste good, and it did.

Tonight’s meal came fresh from the pages of the July/August issue of Food Net­work Mag­a­zine. I started get­ting Food Net­work Mag­a­zine when it first started get­ting pub­lished last year. It has sur­pris­ingly grown on me since its con­cep­tion. I don’t go to it expect­ing long or infor­ma­tive arti­cles, but quick snip­pets and ideas. The food looks good and, most of the time, rel­a­tively easy. I don’t like the “him vs her” sec­tion because hav­ing Saun­dra Lee com­pete against Emril Lag­gase is like hav­ing a star­ing con­test with a cat. Some things you just can’t win. Saun­dra Lee Vs. Rachael Ray — ok fair. Either of those two against a trained chef who has run a real restau­rant (in most cases sev­eral) — not even a chal­lenge. Sure their ver­sion may be cute, homey and come with a tablescape, but I can tell you which one tastes better.

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You know the say­ing — “full me once shame on you, full me twice, shame on me.” Well, full me a third time — it’s my damned fault — I should have learned my les­son. What was I thinking?

In the past week I have pre­pared 3 recipes from the Neely’s on Foodnetwork.com and for all 3 my taste buds have been left sad­dened by the lack of fla­vor, zest or zing. I am not a fan of the Neely’s on TV because it’s just too much mushy for me. Don’t get me wrong, I am happy for any­one who is that in love, but it just seems a bit much on the show. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, I finally went ahead and made a face­book page for Pass the Sushi… I kind of feel like a tool (but as it seems to be doing the girls at SiTs some good, hope­fully it does for me too). Please check it out on the sidebar.

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And Peanut But­ter Crispy Bars from Baked.

Have you ever real­ized how impor­tant a well stocked kitchen is? Hav­ing the right tools for cook­ing is like a doc­tor mak­ing sure he has the right scalpel. Ok, maybe not that seri­ous, but you get what I’m say­ing. You don’t real­ize how impor­tant a wooden spoon, off­set spat­ula, micro grater, or hell, a good spat­ula is until you are work­ing in a kitchen with­out these basic tools.

I’m, how­ever, at an odd point where I refuse to buy any more kitchen sup­plies until I have my own kitchen again. My kitchen is well stocked *in boxes some­where* but there is a list of things I need. Its the most ridicu­lous thing I have ever made myself not spend money on — how­ever I can’t pos­si­bly jus­tify any more kitchen pur­chases when most of my life is stored away in card­board any­way. It makes me rather sad because there is a list of things I don’t have that I would love to (a cast iron skil­let, a dutch oven, tart pan and my often dreamed about Kitchenaid counter top mixer.… to name a few.…). When I can unpack my things, reac­quaint myself with what I do actu­ally own, only then will I con­sider another pur­chase. Read the rest of this entry »