tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32150094786108750272024-02-20T09:05:48.237-05:00Butter Than Toast.Always Delicious, Never Pretentious.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04563959544743713958noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3215009478610875027.post-9487632078797144692014-02-04T17:01:00.000-05:002014-02-04T17:04:52.946-05:00BBQ Mini MeatloavesOk, so I know that I just posted a recipe yesterday with the selling point of eating clean and lighter after the Super Bowl... but these were too good not to share. They're not clean, nor are they considered health food, but I have heard there is another snow storm making it's way to the East Coast, so I figured there needed to be another hearty, low maintenance meal out there that would be the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04563959544743713958noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3215009478610875027.post-1205604884283791842014-02-03T17:04:00.002-05:002014-02-03T21:14:49.622-05:00Meatless Monday : Warm Lentil Salad with a Poached EggHow BORING was that Super Bowl? Not even the commercials were any good! I was expecting to bawl like a hungry baby at the Budweiser commercial with the puppies, but I just got this confused deja vu feeling that they had done a similar commercial a couple of years ago. Talk about stale. And I am so very sorry to any and all Denver fans out there- after the first half it was just mean what Seattle Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04563959544743713958noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3215009478610875027.post-83443368575291899562014-01-22T13:27:00.000-05:002014-01-22T15:48:43.348-05:00Meatless Monday : Quinoa Cakes with Cream of Mushroom Soup
Oh my friends. Please forgive my absence. I literally had every intention of blogging through July and then as soon as I was settled back into life in the States... which I thought would be a couple weeks after our arrival. I completely underestimated (read: forgot) how difficult and stressful an overseas PCS can be.
In July, we were super short staffed in the ICU so I was working Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04563959544743713958noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3215009478610875027.post-26470788438397280962013-06-28T22:00:00.000-04:002013-06-29T15:04:13.204-04:00Light Minestrone with Chicken MeatballsYes, you're right my dear friends. It's the end of June. The temperatures are squelchingly hot. My windows literally sweat with condensation during the day because of the temperature differences between my cool, comfortable house inside in comparison with the sauna/steam room that is the Okinawa summer. Egads, it's freaking hot. So why on Earth would you want to make soup in the middle of Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04563959544743713958noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3215009478610875027.post-61622593022675756142013-06-23T12:53:00.001-04:002013-06-23T21:06:23.026-04:00Lemon Soufflé with a Sweet Cherry Sauce
Y'all! It's officially lemon season! Bright, beautiful lemons are popping up everywhere, it seems, and these little babies were just begging to be used in something other than a risotto or pasta sauce or as a splash in a cocktail. I've never done a lemon dessert, so I figured, why not?
To date, this is probably the most intricate recipe I've made here on Butter Than Toast. It wasn't Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04563959544743713958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3215009478610875027.post-87188234661873420622013-06-11T20:30:00.000-04:002013-06-19T13:26:57.254-04:00Chinese Slapped CucumberI am back from China! We had an amazing time, but traveling is so exhausting and over the course of our 2 week trip, we were in 4 different cities and on 6 different planes. Whew! Believe it or not, this was one of our very favorite dishes our tour guide searched out for us. I definitely cannot pronounce nor write the name in Mandarin, but it literally translates to slapped cucumber.
It's calledAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04563959544743713958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3215009478610875027.post-7997759565197235432013-06-09T11:02:00.000-04:002013-06-19T13:24:22.088-04:00Pearl CousCous Vegetable Salad This has been one of my favorite side dishes lately. First off, look at at all of those colors! Helloooo vitamins! Thanks for joining the party- you are super delicious.
Second, it's incredibly and almost embarrassingly easy to make. It may not even qualify as a recipe, in fact, because of how easy it is! We had some leftover produce lying about before our trip to China last month (hence myAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04563959544743713958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3215009478610875027.post-73848505007506855692013-05-17T08:48:00.000-04:002013-06-19T13:21:39.366-04:00Thai Peanut Sauce Noodles with Veggies and ChickenI don't know why I have waited so long to make this recipe. It is SO freaking good. I guess I thought that using spaghetti for anything other than Italian style recipes was kind of sacrilegious, but that was just crazy talk. I am hereby a complete convert in using semolina/durum flour pastas for everything... you know, because I really needed another excuse to eat more carbs. NOT.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04563959544743713958noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3215009478610875027.post-22060144876295273042013-05-14T08:16:00.001-04:002013-06-19T13:11:52.686-04:00Crock Pot Pork Carnitas with a Copy Cat Chipotle Corn SalsaFirst off, who gets colds in May? Seriously, like the connotation of the word "cold" would lead one to believe that they can actually happen any time and have absolutely nothing to do with the weather actually being cold, or the victim of said virus being cold, or having wet hair while going outside when it's cold, or really anything at all dealing with any definition of the word cold. Except Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04563959544743713958noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3215009478610875027.post-77054263401870017092013-04-21T02:50:00.000-04:002013-06-19T13:12:16.894-04:00Soft Black Pepper Pretzels + Neighborhood SnapshotsA Pretzel Haiku:
Bread twist that is soft.With salt, has the perfect taste.How I love you so.
Did you know that Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry? I'm sure I learned that at some point in my high school English class, but since then those fun little facts have been pushed out of my brain to make room for non-fun adult type things, like bills and how to file taxes (without stabbing yourself in Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04563959544743713958noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3215009478610875027.post-70213923779088186222013-04-20T05:02:00.000-04:002013-06-18T11:45:29.708-04:00Miso Shrimp with Sautéed Vegetables (Clean and potentially Paleo)
Y'all, it has been a whirlwind of a past few weeks! Not really anything different has happened, other than I feel like I have been going non-stop from the moment I wake up at 5 am to the second I pass out from exhaustion at 10:30 pm with barely even a chance to check my email. It's pretty much a miracle my teeth get brushed and the dog gets fed and I haven't yet left my keys in the freezer. InAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04563959544743713958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3215009478610875027.post-84883618843182423752013-04-03T04:51:00.002-04:002013-04-03T04:54:54.436-04:00Quinoa Burgers with Chipotle MayoHow difficult do you think it would be to trick an Oklahoma born & raised, red-blooded American man into absolutely loving a veggie burger? Yeah, I thought it was going to be tough as well, until I made these.
My disclaimer is that I did tell him they were not beef, but I think he assumed there was some sort of meat in them. I kind of feel bad for my husband for playing my little trick on Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04563959544743713958noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3215009478610875027.post-58258049246660435602013-03-26T15:09:00.003-04:002013-03-30T21:12:37.160-04:00Leek Latkes
Passover (or as my friend Natalie says in Hebrew, 'Pesach') was this week, which means I heard the collective groan of my Jewish friends around the world as they refrained from eating leavened bread for 8 days. Many non-Jews in America don't really know much about Passover, (including myself!) other than it starts with a Seder in which matzo balls are involved. The Gospels of Mark, Matthew andAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04563959544743713958noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3215009478610875027.post-45116241594585824572013-03-25T06:24:00.000-04:002013-03-25T07:45:45.330-04:00Easter Ranger Cookies
Lately my definition of insanity has been having piles upon piles of recipes, lists of lists of things I want to make, and suddenly walking into the kitchen and thinking, "I don't know what to cook next!"
Uhhh, say what now? Clearly, I have problems.
I don't know how it happens, either! I get super excited about cooking some random dish, and even go to the lengths of putting on my weekly toAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04563959544743713958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3215009478610875027.post-17423009880085121322013-03-17T07:46:00.000-04:002013-03-19T02:26:18.411-04:00Tiramisu Cheesecake & My 1st Blogiversary!
Well, I made it! Butter Than Toast has been in existence for a full year today! In the past 12 months, I’ve written 72 posts including this one, which equates to an average of 6 posts each month. My original goal was just one post per week, so in that sense I’ve done a lot better than I originally thought I would.
It’s been quite the experience to figure out the world of blogging, my Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04563959544743713958noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3215009478610875027.post-45323358962945112532013-03-14T06:22:00.002-04:002013-03-14T09:52:59.549-04:00Homemade Taco Seasoning
Raise your hand if you grew up on taco spice that came from a packet! Yeah… me too. Don’t get me wrong, I think it tastes pretty darned good, but that was before I started reading ingredient labels. Now I can’t bring myself to use it except in emergencies (aka I didn’t plan well) because of all of the salt and unpronounceable nonsense that’s engineered to stay tasty 1 million years Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04563959544743713958noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3215009478610875027.post-79240213541058096192013-03-03T06:04:00.000-05:002013-03-03T07:20:52.484-05:00Chicken à la King (A Clean Recipe)<!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]>
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I have been on a breakfast kick lately. There could be worse things to enjoy often, right? Truthfully I first made these waffles for one of Travis' last breakfasts before he left on deployment, and then again for the Super Bowl, since it was on at 7:30 am here in Japan. Third time being the charm that it is, I made these waffles again this past week, for a brinner for one. It was heavenly.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04563959544743713958noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3215009478610875027.post-25635861989070601112013-02-10T05:20:00.000-05:002013-02-10T21:48:30.999-05:00Back to Basics : Chicken Fried Rice<!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04563959544743713958noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3215009478610875027.post-22595863228820287052013-01-30T06:40:00.000-05:002013-01-30T07:26:49.698-05:00Roasted Vegetable Soup
I am on a soup kick lately- the weather here has been absolutely perfect for it. It's "winter" here in Okinawa, which means temperatures in the 50's, overcast and rainy. It's not the winter I would prefer, but I'll take what I can get. Just like the 30 Minute Chicken Noodle Soup I posted the other day, this recipe is high flavor, low maintenance.
Which is exactly what I needed after aAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04563959544743713958noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3215009478610875027.post-90524566349240960142013-01-29T04:12:00.001-05:002013-01-29T05:58:12.175-05:00Back to Basics : 30 Minute Chicken Noodle SoupIf you believe that delicious, healthy, and homemade soup requires tons of skill and hours upon hours of simmering time on the stove- listen up! You. Are. Wrong.
This soup takes 30 minutes literally from start to finish! Yes, you can make your own stock from scratch, and I highly recommend doing so, but if you aren't feeling well, or have 10 bazillion things on your plate and can't hang out in Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04563959544743713958noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3215009478610875027.post-50039384224027660462013-01-17T06:56:00.001-05:002014-04-20T19:44:48.721-04:00Slow-Cooker Texas Chili
Chili is a very personal dish. Have you ever noticed that? I don't think there is another dish, except maybe pizza, that evokes such strong opinions. Everyone and their brother has the "right" way to make chili- with beans, without beans. With tomatoes, or without. Ground beef or cubed chuck. Suet or bacon fat. People get pretty passionate about it too- especially Texans, which I know from Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04563959544743713958noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3215009478610875027.post-82087415539246652062013-01-16T03:02:00.000-05:002013-01-16T23:55:07.480-05:00Back to Basics : Lighter Basil PestoIt's been a while since we've done a Back to Basics, hasn't it? For that, I apologize. I have been waiting rather impatiently for my kitchen garden to grow in order to do this post for you. The fact that my kitchen garden has actually produced living, edible things is a mini-miracle in itself.... I certainly did not inherit my mother's impeccable green thumb. This pesto is certainly a sauce you Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04563959544743713958noreply@blogger.com1