Recipe: Kale Rice Bowl

Kale Rice Bowl
3 stars
Food and Wine Magazine, Dec 2014, p. 132

This recipe was average -- it was good, and I'd make it again but it wasn't super amazing.  It's one of those simple, healthy recipes that's good for a weeknight meal when you're craving healthy Asian cuisine.

Ingredients:  kale, pork, rice, garlic, ginger, Asian fish sauce, chopped basil and cilantro, canola oil and Kosher salt and pepper

Serve with Sriracha sauce.

Not much else to say on this one.  Decent flavor and again, it's healthy.  I mean, it has kale in it!

Recipe: Amanda Freitag's Buttermilk Pancakes

Amanda Freitag's Buttermilk Pancakes

Food and Wine Magazine, Nov 2015, p.163-164

5 stars

If you like light and fluffy pancakes, this recipe is for you.  This is the best pancake recipe I've made; I could eat these all day!

It's 6 ingredients for the pancake batter:  all-purpose flour, baking powder, eggs, buttermilk, butter, kosher salt.  I'd add vanilla next time, so that makes it 7 ingredients.

Then, there's the confectioners' sugar and maple syrup for serving (not shown in the photo above).

This takes a little time more time than normal pancakes since you have to beat the eggs in a mixer for 4 min, but other than that, it's pretty easy.  This made 6 medium sized pancakes.

The recipe at the link above has a quince and cranberry compote recipe as well; didn't make it since that's more of a fall/winter compote but will try it at some point and will report back.