Blogs Posts on "Appetizers And Dips"

Cashews (Recipe: Muhammara, a pomegranate, pepper and nut spread) by The Perfect Pantry on Oct 25, 2009Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't. Sometimes you feel like a peanut, walnut, pine nut, or even an almond, but sometimes you feel like a cashew, and nothing else will do. Even though it's not a nut. One of the world's healthiest foods...

Thyme (Recipe: herbed cheese spread) by The Perfect Pantry on Oct 4, 2009New England, famous for its exuberant display of Fall foliage, seldom disappoints us. Here in the southern part of the region, the leaves are just beginning to turn, mostly to yellow, but I see an occasional bright red or orange sugar maple along the...

Eggs (Recipe: Italian style omelet appetizer) by The Perfect Pantry on Aug 18, 2009Brown eggs are local eggs, and local eggs are fresh. If you're not singing along, you're not from here. Here is New England, where our Rhode Island Red hens lay brown eggs, and where we've heard that jingle on radio and television ads for almost fort...

Dark soy sauce (Recipe: shrimp teriyaki) by The Perfect Pantry on Jul 14, 2009One of my favorite Asian pantry ingredients, in a post updated from the archives, with new recipe, photos and links. Yoda, the wise jedi master who seemed to know everything about everything, taught us all about the dark side, but I'll bet he didn't...

The not-yet-perfect pantry: What's missing? (Recipe: white bean garlic dip) by The Perfect Pantry on Jun 21, 2009My friend Bob sent me an email last week: So...... what's going to be the 250th ingredient in your pantry? I know what you're thinking. 250. Good golly. It sounds like a lot, but if you've been checking your inventory against mine for the past few da...

Frozen puff pastry (Recipe: asparagus and cheese tart) by The Perfect Pantry on May 28, 2009I'm having fun updating some favorite posts from the archives, like this one, from the days when I didn't photograph the food I cooked. If you missed these posts the first time around, please enjoy them now. With photos and new links, too. Pâte feui...

Madras curry paste, a Pantry Special (Recipe: vegetable samosas) by The Perfect Pantry on May 19, 2009Pantry Specials are great ingredients that find their way into my pantry from time to time, but not all the time. In this occasional series of short posts, you'll find information and recipes for foods that might not be on your local supermarket's sh...

Black olives (Recipe: goat cheese and olive stuffed peppers) by The Perfect Pantry on May 12, 2009My friend Bob, tagine-maker extraordinaire and photography guru, has many good qualities, and one flaw. He doesn't eat olives. On a scale of one to ten, where not eating chocolate would be a ten, this ranks as a seven or eight. My son-in-law Nick doe...

Onions (Recipe: salsa and shrimp stuffed avocado) by The Perfect Pantry on Apr 19, 2009Adapted from the archives, with new photos, recipe and links. When I cook, I hear voices. I hear Jacques Pepin, Diana Kennedy, Ina Garten and Martin Yan, all urging me to try, experiment, enjoy. I hear Julia Child, or Dan Aykroyd channeling Julia, en...

Discos (Recipe: empanadas filled with chicken picadillo) by The Perfect Pantry on Apr 7, 2009Olé Olé Week, Day Two. To give credit where credit is due, my husband Ted discovered discos. Not the John Travolta, dancing queen, glitter ball kind of discos. The take 'em out of the freezer, stuff 'em and bake 'em, empanadas don't get any easier...