my boyfriend cooks for me

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Tonight was a perfect example of how my boyfriend and I come up with meals together: I freaked out when I saw how many peppers and apples we had, so I said to Matt "Oh hey, do you think maybe we could do something with apple and pepper with the pork chops?"...and the next thing you know Matt is making an apple & red pepper cream sauce.

I would also like to point out that, with the exception of garlic and salt, everything in this meal came from one of our farms boxes.

Pork chop with apple & red pepper cream sauce

Green beans

Roasted potatoes and butternut squash

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JulianaOctober 29, 2009 at 3:03 PM
Yummie, the pork roast looks delicious with the red pepper sauce...and it sure goes well with the roasted potatoes, squash and the beans...absolutely yummie :-)
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My boyfriend loves to cook and is very creative in the kitchen. Although the internet is often consulted, he doesn't use recipes. He does most (ok, just about all) of the "heavy lifting" documented here. He also happens to be an amazing artist - which may contribute to his excellent food plating and presentation - so check out his art store on Etsy (and see some samples at the bottom of the page).

I perform important tasks (mainly peeling and chopping onions) and provide ideas gleaned from hours of reading food blogs, recipes and menus online, as well as gentle suggestions (i.e. "Isn't the [ingredient] going to go bad soon? Maybe we should use [ingredient] tonight..."). I am also Head Photographer and Blogmaster.

About Our Blog

In an article in the New York Times Michael Pollan said that we spend more time watching "sport" cooking shows than we do actually cooking. And he said this like it is a bad thing. We hope that this blog proves that these shows, while not explicitly instructive, can be a wonderful inspiration.

Of course no one has the time or resources to cook like an Iron Chef all the time. Sometimes we decide to be adventurous and try more elaborate dishes, but generally we want to show that it isn't difficult to put together interesting, creative, and healthy meals any night of the week. We don't make a weekly plan, we don't decide what to make and then go get ingredients. We buy random fun and interesting things that catch our eye at the grocery store, and then figure out how we can use them.

So don't look here for recipes (for the most part the description of what we ate is all there is to it - "mashed turnip with horseradish" is mashed turnip with horseradish!), look here for everyday ideas and inspiration.

Aphorisms from the Professor: Brillat-Savarin

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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