Click Michelle's Food

A long long time ago, when I was in college, I worked at a restaurant called Pebbles. One of the signature dishes was Chicken Vesuvio, sauteed chicken with a garlicky, lemony, rosemary-y sauce on fat perciatelli pasta…

I’ve been reading a lot about Julia Child lately, what with that movie coming out and all. Over at Chowhound, someone asked who the contemporary Julia Childs [sic] was. The discussion was interesting, even though I nearly didn’t click on it because of that error with the name. No, it wasn’t a typo, the poster [...]

I take the train to work every day. I’ve tried knitting on the train, but it gets a little too bumpy and I always drop stitches. So now I have a Kindle (the original one) and I read. Mostly realistic escapist stuff, like Mediterranean Summer by David Shalleck. It’s good stuff, an American chef looking [...]

Mr Click loves burgers, but I admit they are not my favorite thing, at least not the usual “make a hockey puck out of meat and cook it” way. I’ve been trying various recipes to make them more interesting. So as our last dinner-for-only-two for a while, tonight was Greek Burgers served with Greek Orzo [...]

Friday night is pizza night at our house. Since finding this recipe we have not ordered in. Seriously. It’s that good. And it’s homemade pizza, in 30 minutes or less.
The recipe is adapted from Cook’s Illustrated. They tend to be a little white bread for me but their ideas are often interesting. This one uses [...]

We’re back from vacation (Viva Las Vegas!) and the kids will start coming home this week. And can you believe it, school starts next Monday! So it’s time to start getting back into a good evening routine.
So for this week:
Greek Burgers with yogurt sauce, served with Orzo salad
Slow-cooked Chicken with Lemon and Olives, leftover [...]

How things change in a year!
A year ago today, I was exhausted. We moved into the Big House on July 1, and were trying to get everything livable before I had to start commuting on the 7th. Boxes everywhere, and not much of a party going on. I think we grilled burgers and dogs and [...]