Hey folks! Today I’m going to share with you one of my favorite (and easiest to prepare) hors d’oeuvres. I have a theory that the best food in the world always has less than five ingredients. I am constantly proven…
Category: Cooking with Nicole!
Cooking with Nicole: Toast Cups!
Well, it’s just about New Years, so I know a lot of you will be either hosting or attending parties. And parties means DIP! So here’s how my family makes toast cups, the perfect accompaniment to dip. We always use…
Cooking with Nicole: Peeler Family Crab Dip!
Hello friends! Here’s something I haven’t done in a while: a cooking with Nicole! But I was home and making our usual holiday treats, and I thought I’d take pictures and share with you our Peeler Family Crab Dip. It’s…
Cooking With Nicole: Turkey Ragú
Hello my friends! I know I haven’t done one of these in a while, mostly because I haven’t been cooking. I live alone, and don’t really entertain much in Pennsylvania, so cooking hasn’t been top of my list. That said,…
Cooking with Nicole: Eggplant Stew with Potatoes, Mushrooms, and Chickpeas
Hello my darlings! Last night I made the most fabulous vegetarian stew that I HAD to blog about. It seriously rocked my casbah. I took the recipe from what has to be the ultimate vegetarian cookbook. If you are a…
Cooking With Nicole: Enchilada Pie
This week, I’ll be showing you how I make my enchilada pie, which is sort of like a Tex-Mex lasagna. I don’t use a recipe for this, and I make it differently all the time. But the basic ingredients are…
Cooking With Nicole: Seven-Layer Dip
Today, mah friends, I’m going to show just where you can stick that tomato rose from last week: directly into this seven-layer dip! Yes, it’s another seventies staple. You’ve undoubtedly had a version of this dip. They’ve become common at…
Cooking With Nicole: The Art of the Tomato Rose
Making flowers out of things that aren’t flowers is a staple of seventies cuisine. I was only alive for two years of the 1970s, but my mom’s cooking repertoire was mostly formed in that decade. So I am, at least…
Cooking With Nicole: Turkey Tacos, or “Put a Bunch of Shit in a Pot”
For those who have followed me here or on Twitter, you know I love tacos of all kinds. I’ve tweeted a lot of pictures of tacos in my day: chorizo tacos, tongue tacos, goat tacos, tacos in fancy restaurants, tacos…
Cooking With Nicole: Beans, Beans, the Musical Fruit!
Hello mah friends! Today, we’ll be cooking Cuban black beans together. Cuban food is one of my all time favorites, ever since I went to Miami to visit my friend, Marcia Martinez, when I was a senior in High School.…