blogging hiatus

Hi everyone,
I’ll be on the road for work and family stuff for about two weeks starting Friday, so there will be some blog silence during that time. Thanks for visiting and I’m sure we’ll be posting again soon!

review: trader joe’s red curry sauce

Yum. That’s all I can say. I sauteed some onions, zucchini, and chunks of chicken for about 10 minutes until mostly cooked through, added the sauce, and simmered for another 10 minutes and served over rice. Not quite as good as the squash curry with chicken at Lao Laan-Xang in Madison, but comparable to Sa [...]

review: trader joe’s pav bhaji

Mike and I were out on the east side of the metro shopping this weekend and I stopped into one of my favorite stores, Trader Joe’s, to have a look around. I picked up several new items to try, and I’ll review them here as I try them.
Today for lunch I had the heat-and-eat [...]

updated chocolate cake recipe

Last night we had dinner with some new friends here in MN, Krisitin and John. Many thanks to them for hosting us – we had such a good time! We were on tap for dessert, so I asked Mike what he thought would be good. After a few seconds we decided on chocolate cake – [...]

party tested sauce, veggie version

Here is the veggie sauce we made for our get together earlier this week. Got some great reviews!
Dinner Party Veggie Spaghetti Sauce
Ingredients:
1 large yellow onion, chopped
1 red pepper, chopped
1 green pepper, chopped
4-5 cloves garlic, minced
1 28 oz can crushed tomatoes
1 15 oz can fire roasted diced tomatoes
1/2 cup good red wine (such as cabernet sauvignon)
2 [...]