April 23, 2016

December 2014 – Page 2 of 4 – Cooking With Vinyl

The food: In most cities, the only options for delivery food are pizza and Chinese. I eat more Asian food than I’d like to admit because it would mean owning up to my incredible laziness. What drives me nuts about ordering in, though, is how damn expensive it is. By the time I pay for the food, rice, delivery fee, and tip, my bill[…]

The food: I’m not going to lie. There’s nothing low-fat, low-calorie, low-carb, or low anything about this baked Chicken Alfredo with Sun-Dried Tomatoes. It’s a creamy, cheesy guilty pleasure—and I say enjoy it to your heart’s content. In fact, make it even more sinfully amazing by serving it with Asiago Garlic Bread and a glass of light red wine (merlot or pinot[…]

Cheesy garlic bread is so delicious, and it’s so quick to make that there’s no excuse for not serving it with every Italian dish. My favorite is this Asiago Garlic Bread recipe that is loaded up with garlic. It’s topped with a generous amount of fresh asiago, which is a cow’s milk cheese similar to, but sweeter and more pungent than, parmesan.[…]

There’s something magical about cooking a meal while listening to a record. It’s also just as wonderful to sit down and enjoy that food to the sounds of your favorite musicians. Food and music are a pitch-perfect pairing. I’ve long known this, and it’s why we keep a turntable and our entire vinyl collection in the kitchen. It’s also why I started this blog. What I didn’t know until now,[…]

The food: My boyfriend loves to grill. I love to eat BBQ. It works out well. When we were trying to decide what to grill last weekend, however, we were coming up short. We had fallen into a bit of a rut, cycling through steaks, chicken breasts, and pork chops on repeat. So I had the brilliant idea of mixing it up with grilled kabobs. They are super[…]