made by iron chef dirtherder

Even the noodles in this are homemade. Lunch is the big meal here, and it always starts with a homemade soup. Matilda's mama is Transyvanian Hungarian (ie an ethnic Hungarian in Romania) and this is how she makes chicken soup. No meat, just broth and noodles.

041309M3:51PM TODAY'S LUNCH-

BLACK PEPPERED LEMON HONEY CHICKEN OVER CAPELLINI NOODLES TOPPED WITH CILANTRO AND A DOLLOP OF SOUR CREAM WITH SIDE OF STEAMED CARROTS AND KOREAN PEARS. it was a little spicy, but overall was very delicious! i like using lemon juice instead of salt and honey instead of granulated or brown sugar. the honey seemed to make the chicken taste better. if you don't own a steamer, you could always do the bowl and pot method - that's what i did (for them smaller quantity steaming).

~BON APPETIT!

From "Ad Hoc at Home"

Main course - couldn't resist taking a picture

Shrimp with garlic scape pesto.

Latest attempt at slow cooking, this time with a Dutch oven instead of crockpot. I made “cholent”, a traditional Jewish dish I read about. Potatoes, onions, chunks of beef, pinto beans, buckwheat, cooked for 12 hours in seasoned broth. (Traditionally would be barley, but I went for #glutenfree buckwheat.) I thought it was a hearty stew with a warm flavor (turmeric and cumin), but my husband thought it was bland gruel. Ah well.

Jac cooked honey mustard quail, her first time ever cooking quail. See the blog post: bit.ly/gamefarm-quail

Farm-fresh salad with baked goat cheese and homemade croutons.

oxtail vegetable soup

made myself some lunch at 4pm

ingredients :

oxtail

carrots

tomatoes

mixed dried herbs

mushrooms

celery

location:

shanghai, china

Kraut from Baroo.

Sometimes I just feel like a tuna sandwich for lunch. There's a particular brand of bread around here that has slices around 1.5x the size of regular bread. I'm a fan but forget how filling lunch made with that bread is

As described in the Les Halles Cookbook (Disclosure: Amazon Affiliate link).

Added rehydrated dried shiitakes to the original recipe, plus a bit of the mushroom soaking liquid.

PS. The immersion blender is quite possibly my favorite kitchen gadget ever.

- simmered alfonsino, bamboo shoots, and green onion

- simmered turnip with fried tofu

- salad

- tofu miso soup

- rice

roasted cherry tomatoes, ready and waiting to be added to pasta

Alexander decided to make devil's food cake with fudge frosting for his favorite stuffed animal's birthday. We made it from scratch!

As our paella was not very large, we added chicken wings.

Blai made a paella for lunch today!

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eatlikeagirl.com/2007/12/18/coconut-apricot-snowballs/.

Had cake for breakfast today. The husband bought cakes and pastries, but had no idea what flavors they were. He picked them by the looks!

According to the receipt, this is banana butter cake. I can tell you for sure, it taste nothing like banana, but more of hmm.. walnut cake.

Lis Chaong of ponyandmeow.com and thequirkyme.com

This was a hit, I tell you.

Easy weekend cooking - blueberry muffins. More @ christiannasearthlydelights.blogspot.co.uk/

Home-made biscuits for our 'Springtime Easter'.

With dates and honey dates. Cooked it up earlier after I found lotus root in the Asian market. This is the stuff my mom used to make all the time.