Friday, July 13, 2012

.zip Recipes 2: Chicken Bake

Sometimes, you just don't want to stand at the stove, watching your food cook. You have stuff to do, man! This .zip recipe requires next to no preparation, and only uses 1 baking dish, leaving you free to do all the other things you've got planned while it cooks in the oven.

-=.zip Recipes 2: Chicken Bake=-

2 Chicken Thighs
1 head of broccoli
1 yellow onion
salt
pepper
olive oil
sesame oil
optional: fried garlic (find it at an Asian market)

Preheat an oven to 350. Pour some olive oil into a 9x9 baking dish, and let it coat the bottom evenly. Place chicken thighs in pan. Loosely chop onion and broccoli and place around chicken. Add salt and pepper over all items, then drizzle some sesame oil over the chicken. Sprinkle fried garlic if desired. Bake for 30-45 minutes. Enjoy!

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Cookbook?


It has recently come to my attention that it is in fact possible to publish a book on the cheap. Or at least, cheap enough to possibly fall within my budget. Those of you who have followed this blog and seen my facebook pics know that over the years, I've whipped up a recipe or two. It was always my intention that, once I had created a reasonable quantity of recipes, that I would then write a cookbook of my own, targeted towards college students, single parents, anyone on a tight budget and for whom time can be a rare commodity.

I have yet to figure out the details, but it's a safe bet that you can expect at least 15 recipes with full color photos, with anywhere between 10 and 30 additional recipes without images (this blog alone already has nearly 30 recipes, although not all will make it into the book). At the moment, I'm considering a price point at somewhere between $15-$25, depending on various parameters, such as book length, # of color pages, etc.

So, my question is this. Were I to get a cookbook printed, would you buy it, and how much would you be willing to spend?