Follow your favorite blogs!

Bloglovin' helps you follow the blogs you read by letting you know when they update.

Sign up »
Nook & Pantry - A Food and Recipe Blog
nookandpantry.blogspot.com
29
A Collection of Recipes, Culinary Endeavors, and Anecdotes of a First Year Medical Student
#45770 in All

Guide to Crabs: how to clean and pick meat from a crab

Seattle is best known for salmon but my favorite local seafood is the Dungeness crab. Eating crab is messy and time consuming so the puny guys are not worth the time. Dungeness crab, on the other han...

13 feb 12

Valentines Day 2012

Steven and I just celebrated our 9th Valentines Day dinner and our last as an unmarried couple. Instead of going out, we continued our yearly tradition of dining quietly at home. Each year, we mix up...

12 feb 12 1 person likes this

Thanksgiving 2011

Im a night owl. It is officially Thanksgiving as of an hour ago, which marks the start of the holiday season and my favorite time of year. Now its perfectly acceptable for me to eat a little more tha...

24 nov 11

Blueberry Muffin

The fact that this is my seventh muffin recipe on the blog shows how much I love them. Im certainly not the first to proclaim the muffin top to be the best part. When the muffins are not intended for...

17 oct 11

Meat Lasagna

updated from archives Every time I open the pantry, Im accosted by two lingering boxes of lasagna noodles that have been sitting at eye level for the last two years. They are the final edible remnant...

29 sep 11

Hearty Spaghetti and Meat Sauce

(updated from archives) I grew up on spaghetti with Ragu. Not the lowercase italicized ragu, but the capital R followed by a copyright sign Ragu. And it was Hunt’s more often than not since it was ch...

01 sep 11

Fondue for Two

Im in the process of tidying up the blog after months of being away (pardon the dust). While I was going through old flickr photos, I stumbled on this gem: See the date? This episode aired May 3, 201...

19 aug 11

Spaghetti alla Carbonara

Carbonara is Stevens most requested dish. Its one of the few recipes on this blog that I make regularly, so Im a little embarrassed I havent updated the recipe since 2007. The ingredient list has sta...

19 aug 11

my food blog

My food blog has been an unfortunate casualty of school (as evidenced by the graph below). Ive never written much about my personal life on this blog. Some may argue that goes against the very idea o...

05 aug 11

Chicken Adobo

update from April 2007 When I first made chicken adobo 4 years ago, I was a little apprehensive about the seemingly large amount of vinegar the recipe called for. However, the vinegar mellows with co...

05 aug 11

vanilla pound cake

Two years ago I bought 2 dozen vanilla beans for a great price. They were my precious babies so I used them oh so sparingly. The vanilla beans wont be a problem to move and I intend on bringing them ...

19 jan 11

the pantry

My pantry has become increasingly cluttered over the last few years. The new year was a good time to reorganize and figure out just what is in there. Steven and I are anticipating relocating about a ...

19 jan 11

Leftover Turkey and Seafood Paella

  I hope everyone had a spectacular Turkey day. I was too busy eating so I unfortunately dont have any photos of the spread. *sadface* And Im still recovering from my food coma. As for the actua...

01 dec 10

Thanksgiving 2010

First I told myself I would blog again after spring quarter, then it was after summer exams, pretty soon after that I planned to put something together while I spent autumn in Alaska. Now it’s been o...

25 nov 10

Carrot Cake with Pineapple and Coconut and Brown Butter Rum Cream Cheese Frosting

I had some flopppy carrots and a half bar of cream cheese that needed to be used up so the obvious choice was a carrot cake. My original idea was to spice things up by adding currants instead of the ...

24 apr 10

Banoffee Bread

Last time I tried to be clever, I attempted to make banana bread, real bread—brioche to be exact. Unfortunately, my dreams of making banana brioche the next big thing in the food world were never rea...

13 feb 10

we interrupt your regularly scheduled programming

No recipe today but I just have to share E's (gal I catered for) mom's new Etsy shop for lovely knit scarves and things. Each scarf is one-of-a-kind and the yarn is especially cool. From what her mom...

05 dec 09

French Toast

Breakfast is the one meal where I don't feel guilty about eating a lot. After all, it's the most important meal of the day, right? When I have time to make a big, sit-down breakfast, I like to go all...

11 nov 09

Guest Post! Shanghai Drunken Chicken

Shanghai Drunken Chicken at Rasa Malaysia Yes, I'm still here. No, I haven't forgotten about this blog. I know the crickets have been chirping here more than I've been posting. If only I have more fr...

02 oct 09

Heirloom Tomatoes and Bacon

The sandwich of summer, the BLT. I think my laptop caught me drooling over the shiny new Macbooks because it decided to die last week, two days before classes started. Awesome. After running every re...

12 sep 09

Macarons, macarons, macarons!

I have the best friend who brought me the best souvenirs! After a month-long honeymoon hopping across Eurasia from Russia to France, E.’s final destination was Paris. The morning before her flight ba...

26 aug 09

Crab Cakes

Mmm mm! 4 oz. crab cake with Israeli couscous (our current obsession) cooked in crab stock. I’m back! I spent the last month working at a clinic in the coastal fishing town of Westport, WA. I had som...

19 aug 09

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

A few weeks ago I was asked by Gaea if I'd be interested in reviewing some of their products. I am by no means an olive oil expert but I thought, heck why not, tasting products is always fun. Gaea sp...

26 jul 09

German Pancake/Dutch Baby with Apricot and Raspberry

Steven and I bought a half flat of the biggest raspberries we'd ever seen from our local berry stand. We're lucky enough to live blocks away from the only Seattle location of the Spooner Farms berry ...

21 jul 09

Duck Noodle Soup

I walked into the Asian market only needing some tofu but walked out with over $80 of groceries and a whole roast duck. $1.28/lb white peaches, heck yeah! 99c/lb bok choy, yeah I need that too. Whoa,...

05 jul 09

Korean Pancake - Pa Jeon/Pa Jun

updated from archives A few years ago when I was visiting Steven's parents, his mom made some Korean pancakes for us. They were so good, I just had to ask her for the recipe. Then I was shocked to se...

01 jul 09

Braised Lamb Shanks and Saffron Pearl Couscous with Cranberries and Almonds

I always feel like I’m committing a culinary faux pas braising in the middle of June. I try my best to keep things seasonal but it just doesn’t happen when lamb shanks are on sale. How can I say no w...

24 jun 09

Basil Fried Rice

Basil fried rice and pan fried salted mackerel I made a lot of fried rice during the school year. That and ramen (I'm very particular about my ramen)were my staples. The only constants for fried rice...

23 jun 09

Greek Yogurt Review

So delicious with honey and fruit, perfect for breakfast or dessert A few weeks ago, Kristina of Stonyfield Farms asked me to review their new organic Greek Yogurt, Oikos. It’s hard to review a produ...

18 jun 09

Raspberry Lemon Cream Tart

Whoops! Only had 2 minutes to take pics and forgot to take the tart out of the pan. Short and sweet recipe post today! I still had some cream cheese leftover from the wedding and the giant 3 pound Co...

13 jun 09

You are no longer following . Undo?