Click Michelle's Food

Mr Click’s birthday is today.
Bean and I made him blueberry muffins to go with his coffee this morning. I made him a delicious Bloody Mary for late morning. (No Tabasco please, only horseradish.) Bean wanted to make a Pesto Dip for afternoon snack, but he had a Cub Scout meeting and didn’t get to [...]

I’ve gone and done it. I bought ball jars. I dug out my Grandmaw’s pressure cooker. I cut up 40 gazillion green tomatoes, and a healthy quantity of peppers and onions, and a head of cabbage. I salted the whole deal and let it sit overnight. Today I cooked it all with vinegar, sugar, and [...]

So last week I was lame and did not come up with a meal plan or blog anything. The lack of a meal plan resulted in a crazy week. Hell, one night we had hot dogs! It really is worth the time it takes to figure out what’s on sale, what I’ll be cooking, and [...]

Short short post tonight… I have a houseful. Hooray, Mr 18 is home!
Tonight, Greek Burgers, orzo salad, corn on the cob, and melon from the farmer’s market
Tomorrow: Shrimp summer rolls and spicy slaw. The fresh, never frozen gulf shrimp looked way too good to pass up today at Harry’s; 16-25s for $7.99/lb. I know now [...]

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 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 [...]