Kalyn's Kitchen

Kalyn's Kitchen Picks: Penzey's Turkey Soup Base (Get it Now for Thanksgiving Gravy!)

2009-11-07T19:13:00.001-07:00

(Updated, November 2009) This post is a yearly public-service announcement for those of you in the U.S. who might be cooking Thanksgiving dinner, or planning to make turkey stock or turkey soup after the holiday. I've shared how much I love Penzeys Turkey Base, and again this year I'm giving you a reminder so you can order Turkey Soup Base from Penzeys in time for Thanksgiving. If you look

Friday Night Photos: Cafe Trio in Salt Lake City

2009-11-06T20:45:00.001-07:00

Sometimes when I love a certain dish at a restaurant I'll order it over and over for years, until in my mind, that particular dish is something I *must* order there. At Cafe Trio (just ten blocks from my house in downtown Salt Lake) Rosemary Flatbread is the appetizer that defines the restaurant for me. Who wouldn't love to start a meal with perfect crispy flatbread served with goat cheese,

Recipe for Soy-Glazed Sweet Potatoes with Sesame Seeds

2009-11-04T21:22:00.002-07:00

I'm adding this you-must-try-it recipe for Soy-Glazed Sweet Potatoes to the list we're compiling of Low-Glycemic Recipes for Thanksgiving 2009, and if your family serves those brown sugar laden sweet potatoes that show up at Thanksgiving, this version would be a nice change of pace. The recipe is from Deborah Madison's Local Flavors, a classic book I just discovered. When I was making this the

Recipe for Low-Sugar Flourless Apple Crisp made with Olive Oil

2009-11-03T05:00:00.002-07:00

Yesterday I started my annual count-down to Thanksgiving by posting the 2009 edition of Low-Glycemic Thanksgiving recipes. That post has some recipes from this year that I think would make good options for Thanksgiving, and I promised I'd be adding even more ideas during November, starting with this delicious low sugar and healthful version of apple crisp. This is a recipe with something for

Low-Glycemic Holiday Recipe Ideas for a South Beach Diet Thanksgiving 2009

2009-11-02T05:00:00.003-07:00

Spaghetti Squash and Chard Gratinwould make a great Thanksgiving side dish!Thanksgiving 2009 is the fourth year I've published a collection of low-glycemic holiday recipe ideas. Of course, these recipes are suitable for people on the South Beach Diet or anyone following a low-glycemic way of eating to control diabetes, insulin resistance disorder, or other health concerns, but they're also tasty

South Beach Diet Phase One Recipes Round-Up for October 2009

2009-11-01T07:38:00.000-07:00

Kalyn's favorite phase one recipe for October 2009 was thisGarbanzo Bean (Chickpea) Soup with Garlic, Sumac, Olive Oil, and LemonTomorrow we'll start counting down to Thanksgiving with a month of ideas for low-glycemic holiday recipes on Kalyn's Kitchen. I don't know how many people actually start a diet in the months of November or December, but what I do know is that all year long people

Five Fun Things on Friday

2009-10-30T21:20:00.002-06:00

I love posting Friday Night Photos, especially when there are new things to share, but when the photos don't inspire me I'm going to start sharing other fun things I've come across during the week. Since there seems to be some sort of unwritten rule that these types of blog features must have titles with alliteration, I'm calling this Five Fun Things on Friday. Keep reading to see five things

Recipe for Individual-Serving Meatloaf Balls with Italian Sausage, Ground Beef, and Peppers

2009-10-29T19:42:00.001-06:00

If anyone is scratching their head over the name of this recipe, let me start by telling you how I came up with Meatloaf Balls. A while ago, I happened to see a site where a famous food personality (who shall not be named!) was touting the idea of meatloaf cooked in muffin tins. I loved the idea, which sounded perfect for any house where some family members want different ingredients in their

Recipe for Roasted Winter Squash and Sausage with Herbs

2009-10-27T18:06:00.002-06:00

Winter squash is one of those perfect vegetables that's easy to grow, nutritious, and versatile, and when it's roasted into caramelized goodness like the squash in this recipe, I think it's one of the best-tasting foods in the world. I never liked squash as a kid, but by my late twenties my Grandma Denny taught me to like butternut squash that she'd roast in a hot oven, then mash with lots of

Recipe for Roasted Wild Salmon with Soy-Wasabi-Agave Glaze and Green Onions

2009-10-25T21:25:00.004-06:00

Wild salmon is a bit of a splurge around here, but when my local store had these one-pound wild salmon pieces on sale for $6.99, that was an offer I couldn't refuse. I thawed the piece of fish overnight and I'd intended to grill the salmon but it was cold and windy that day. Even though I can cook on my covered deck when it's bad weather, I decided to use Mark Bittman's foolproof method for

Recipe for Low Carb Macaroni and Cheese (with a grown-up twist)

2009-10-24T17:20:00.001-06:00

(Updated and added to Recipe Favorites October 2009) I first posted this recipe back in 2005, when people might have been skeptical about low carb macaroni and cheese, but surely by now most people have heard of Dreamfield's Pasta, haven't they? This great lower-glycemic and low carb alternative to regular pasta earned the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. I've been using Dreamfield's

Friday Night Photos: A Love Letter to Toyota

2009-10-23T21:10:00.001-06:00

On Friday nights I share random photos of whatever has happened to come in front of my camera, and this week I've been thinking about cars. Thirteen years ago I bought this 1996 Toyota Camry, which turned out to be the best car I'd ever owned; all I did was change the oil on a semi-regular basis and buy tires once in a while, and I was good to go.I'm not someone who cares a lot about cars, and I

Recipe for Spicy Red Lentil and Chickpea Stew (Paula's Moroccan Lentil Stew)

2009-10-22T17:31:00.001-06:00

I'm a huge fan of all kinds of beans and legumes but two of my favorites are lentils and chickpeas, so when I got this recipe by e-mail from a reader named Paula B., from the second I read the recipe, there was never any doubt I was going to make it. Not only did it sound like a perfect combination of flavors, but I'd just gotten a big bag of red lentils from Whole Foods, so it seemed like an

Recipe for Low Sugar and Whole Wheat Apple-Pear Cake with Cinnamon and Pecans

2009-10-20T22:23:00.004-06:00

There's something about cinnamon-laden cakes with fruit that just screams Autumn, but this cake recipe actually got started when it was still summer and I had a surplus of zucchini and made a low sugar and whole wheat Garden Harvest Cake with apples, zucchini, and carrot. Despite the fact it looked more like a bread than a cake, it was definitely one of my favorite new recipes of the year. At

Recipe for the World's Easiest Garlicky Green Beans Stir Fry

2009-10-19T05:00:00.003-06:00

Beans are one of those plants that don't get too much respect from me in the garden. I find them hard to keep picked, and truthfully, sometimes I end up with overgrown beans I have to throw away. I also notice I don't think of beans as a summertime food in the same way I do things like tomatoes and zucchini, so when I'm wondering what to cook, beans are less likely to pop into my mind.

Recipe for Kubideh: Grilled Ground Meat on Skewers with Middle Eastern Spices

2009-10-17T17:23:00.006-06:00

(Updated and added to Recipe Favorites, October 2009.) One of my favorite restaurants in Salt Lake is Cafe Med, a very inexpensive place that features foods from all the Mediterranean countries. On the section of the menu designated "Persian Food" they have a dish called Kubideh that I love to order. It's made of very finely ground beef mixed with onions and spices, including turmeric, and then

Kalyn's Kitchen Picks: Heinz Reduced Sugar Ketchup

2009-10-16T19:59:00.000-06:00

Kalyn's Kitchen Picks is a blog feature where I talk about products I love and would recommend to my readers. It's been a long time since I've shared one of my picks, but now that there are no house renovations or vegetable gardens to photograph, I thought I'd start doing one of those posts instead of Friday Night Photos some of the time. In case you've heard about the new FTC guidelines for

Recipe for Mexican Baked Eggs with Black Beans, Tomatoes, Green Chiles, and Cilantro

2009-10-15T05:00:00.004-06:00

This dish started out as one of those recipe ideas that get stuck in my mind and simply don't go away until I've finally tried creating the recipe. For sure it was the Tuscan Baked Eggs I made last summer that got me thinking of eggs baked in tomato sauce but I have no idea what inspired me to try simmering the tomatoes with black beans and spicy green chiles. It turned out to be a keeper

Recipe for Wild Rice with Sausage and Mushrooms

2009-10-13T09:58:00.004-06:00

(Updated October 2009) I'm a fan of wild rice, which is actually not rice at all, but the seed of a type of grass that grows in the U.S., Canada, and China. I've used it in dishes like Turkey and Wild Rice Soup, and it's often sold in a mix of Brown and Wild Rice. This recipe uses wild rice in a way that was different for me, where the wild rice is the main ingredient in the dish, with

Slow Cooker Recipe for Pulled Pork with Low-Sugar Barbecue Sauce

2009-10-11T14:28:00.000-06:00

As soon as I mentioned on Facebook that I was making a version of pulled pork with low-sugar barbecue sauce, I had people asking me to post the recipe. That didn't surprise me, since this is a classic American dish, but I do want to start out by saying that one reason I decided to tackle this was because I find most barbecue sauce recipes to be too sweet, without enough complex flavor

Friday Night Photos: Lunch at Chez Panisse!

2009-10-09T20:50:00.010-06:00

I doubt I'll stop talking about lunch at Chez Panisse for a long time, so you must forget that I already mentioned this lunch when I wrote about food bloggers having fun at BlogHer Food Conference. The side trip to Chez Panisse on the day before the conference was the brilliant idea of Grace from State of Grace, who invited me and Christine from Christine Cooks to journey to Berkeley with her in

Recipe for Spaghetti Squash and Chard Gratin

2009-10-08T09:20:00.002-06:00

Besides writing this blog, I also write about food twice a week for BlogHer.com, and recently I wrote about spaghetti squash. Of course that made me think about cooking some of my own spaghetti squash from the garden. I found great-sounding spaghetti squash recipes for the BlogHer post, but the one that inspired this recipe was Spaghetti Squash Gratin from Daily Unadventures in Cooking. Adding

Recipe for Garlic-Lover's Vegetable Stir Fry with Eggplant, Zucchini, and Yellow Squash

2009-10-06T05:00:00.001-06:00

Even if you don't have a wok, stir frying is a simple way to turn out great-tasting meals from very few ingredients. I learned how to stir-fry years ago by taking a Chinese Cooking class taught by a visiting professor from China, and once you master the basic technique, you can get good results with many different combinations of ingredients. This stir-fry dish was inspired by the last few

Recipe for Garbanzo Bean (Chickpea) Soup with Garlic, Sumac, Olive oil, and Lemon

2009-10-04T09:08:00.000-06:00

Ever since I rediscovered it when I made Fattoush, I've been loving the flavor of Sumac, the maroon-colored spice you see sprinkled on top of this soup, but if you don't have any Sumac, don't let that stop you from making the soup if you like hummus, falafel, or any of the other tasty things made with garbanzo beans. You can certainly use some smoky paprika (which is how it was served by Gail

Friday Night Photos: Food Blogger Fun at BlogHer Food Conference in San Francisco

2009-10-02T21:49:00.012-06:00

Perfect Heirloom Tomato Salad from Chez PanisseFor days I've been mulling over how to write about the experience of attending BlogHer Food Conference in San Francisco last weekend. After looking forward to it for months, apparently I was having so much fun I took very few photos of people to help me remember everyone I met! I didn't do much better on the food either (although I did manage to