one-dish dinner – In Good Taste http://ingoodtaste.kitchen Making Every Day an Occasion... Simply Sat, 28 Dec 2019 18:11:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-peonies-32x32.jpg one-dish dinner – In Good Taste http://ingoodtaste.kitchen 32 32 Baked Shells and Cheese http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/shells-and-cheese/ http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/shells-and-cheese/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:00:51 +0000 http://ingoodtasteblog.net/?p=3849 Truth: I have more cookbooks than I know what to do with. This is both good and bad. When moving? Bad. When looking for a mindless baked shells and cheese recipe? Very good. I used to have two ladder-style shelves, each constructed from two separate pieces that fit neatly together to form a loose hinge so the shelves appear that they’re leaning on the wall. One sits in my living room, positioned neatly in a corner next to a window, filled with novels, picture frames, a fake plant that most people think is real and dead. The other shelf used to live on the other side of the room, closer to where my kitchen and eating area are. That piece was for cookbooks. I don’t know if it was the weight of the cookbooks on the shelf or if I had simply done a hasty job of assembling said shelf, but the latter unit always looked as if it were about to keel over. Friends would come over and point out to me that my shelf looked as though it were about to come crashing to the ground under its own weight, but I would just laugh it off and insist […]

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]]> http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/shells-and-cheese/feed/ 27 Ratatouille with Basil & Parmesan Cheese http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/ratatouille/ http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/ratatouille/#comments Sun, 12 Sep 2010 21:19:21 +0000 http://ingoodtasteblog.net/?p=52 When I first learned to cook there were about three recipes that I would make with fairly consistent regularity and no, not ratatouille, but: whole-wheat beer bread, turkey chili and spinach artichoke dip. It’s easy to get stuck in a rut when your skills are limited. But what if I told you that there are so many things you can make if you have even the most basic kitchen skills? If you can make chili, which basically includes browning meat, chopping vegetables and simmering tomatoes with beans, you can also make trickier-sounding Italian Beef Stew or Eggplant Caponata. Or, Ratatouille. If you think that Ratatouille is a meal named after the Disney character then I’m going to take a wild guess that you have at least three pizza delivery numbers programmed into your cell phone. No judgment. Ratatouille is actually a stewed vegetable dish with French Provencal origins. Key ingredients are tomatoes, eggplants and zucchini along with herbs and spices. Marjoram, Herbs de Provence are traditional but this version, which I adapted from the now defunct Gourmet, uses basil to add fresh flavor. So, to recap: you chop, you saute and then you simmer. Garnish with Parmigiano-Reggiano and voila. Dinner. […]

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