i wish i could take credit for this recipe, but i can’t. this recipe is the spaghetti sauce i grew up eating – a standard, week night meal, and one of my favorite comfort foods.
as i was beginning to come out of my post-holiday cooking hiatus, i read a blog post over at smitten kitchen (have you checked out her website? it’s fabulous!) about a barley risotto with beans and leafy greens. i had never tried to cook anything with barley, and the pictures left me absolutely drooling, so i starred the post (my version of clipping a recipe out of a newspaper), and vowed to come back to it.
hi everyone! i’m back from a trip to lovely oahu with mike’s family and ready to share more recipes with you!
behind the scenes at eclaire.name, there’s a rigorous process before a recipe gets published. this process includes at least one test run with the recipe, then much conferring with the kitchen team (ahem, mike) about the process of making the dish, the taste of the dish, and if it’s in the running to make again. once the recipe is thoroughly vetted, we make it one more time, take loads of pictures, and tweak ingredients and techniques as we see fit. after all that, you’ll see a post with the steps and recipe. but this recipe for curry, dear readers, is absolutely amazing!
when i bring my leftovers into the lunch room at work (hi, coworkers!), i get a lot of questions about what i’m eating and where i found the recipe. i absolutely love having this kind of conversation, as we can all share our favorite places to find new and delicious ideas. most of my recipes come from vegetarian times, food blogs (see blog roll to the right), and a solid collection of cookbooks i’ve acquired over the years (thanks, friends and fam!). Read the rest of this entry »