BipolarLawyerCook

Here, chez BLC, the joke with gro­cery shop­ping is to be extra care­ful with the bag with the eggs.  “Hey, be care­ful, there’s eggs in there!” is the invari­able cau­tion.  Which makes every other “be care­ful” warn­ing turn into “hey, there’s eggs in there.”  Yep.  One line, one trick ponies.
So when I was con­tem­plat­ing the […]

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Sum­mery poached hal­ibut, orig­i­nally uploaded by Bipo­lar­Lawyer­Cook.
Yes, I actu­ally cooked din­ner for the first time in ages. Noth­ing like being bipo­lar to screw up the cook part of the iden­tity.
Hal­ibut steak poached in olive oil, white wine, and three ears of corn (cut from the cob), two chopped beef­steak toma­toes, and two dozen chopped […]

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I have been cook­ing, just not recently. Tonight, I actu­ally got to make some din­ner with the pro­duce of a shop­ping trip to Roslin­dale Square. (Or “Rozzie,” for those in the know.”) Din­ner was just a cap­rese salad, a sim­ply pan-roasted pork chop, and broc­coli sauteed on high heat with onions, red […]

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Spinach, pear, and chicken apple sausage salad, orig­i­nally uploaded by Bipo­lar­Lawyer­Cook.
A riff on a Food and Wine recipe from years ago. Low(ish) carb, and gluten free (check the sausages and soy sauce to make sure they’re GF).  I don’t use asian pears, just reg­u­lar pears or granny smith apples.  I’ve also stopped soak­ing the sausage […]

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Span­ish pork chops and spinach, orig­i­nally uploaded by Bipo­lar­Lawyer­Cook.
Sun­day night’s sup­per: pork chops mar­i­nated in salt, cumin, smoked paprika, and oloroso sherry for a night, served with Boston Organ­ics spinach, wilted with four cloves chopped gar­lic and cherry toma­toes in olive oil.

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Sin­gle serv­ing spinach salad, orig­i­nally uploaded by BipolarLawyerCook.

Last night’s sup­per, a spinach salad with warm bacon vinai­grette, heavy on the pro­tein. I was feel­ing the need for min­er­als and fat– I sup­pose another sign I am feel­ing bet­ter, and that the hor­ri­ble carb crav­ings of med­ica­tion with­drawal are pass­ing.
To make: I de-stemmed, tore, […]

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Teriyaki salmon with garlic/scallion snow­peas and gin­ger car­rot slaw, orig­i­nally uploaded by Bipo­lar­Lawyer­Cook.
Trader Joe’s frozen wild coho salmon fil­lets (sorry, Helen!), thawed, mar­i­nated 1/2 hour in Soy Vay Veri Veri Teriyaki sauce, then seared with canola oil in a 9 inch non­stick saute pan for 2 min­utes on the bot­tom, 3 on the top. The […]

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GF Pasta with pesto, pota­toes, & green beans, orig­i­nally uploaded by Bipo­lar­Lawyer­Cook.
Lest there be any ques­tion of my abil­ity and/or will­ing­ness to cook a veg­e­tar­ian meal, I present to you tonight’s sup­per, based upon an idea from a Mark Bittman recipe in one of his The Min­i­mal­ist cook­books.  It’s pretty straight­foward, and made with […]

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For Valentine’s Day, I was look­ing for both a project and a way to save some money. I mean, I love my fam­ily and friends, but $18.00 a pound is a lit­tle much for choco­lates. For­tu­nately, the March 2008 edi­tion of Fine Cook­ing has an arti­cle on the won­ders of choco­late ganache, and […]

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Yet again, I find myself besieged by car­rots. I some­how got a five pound bag of car­rots in my Boston Organ­ics box that I know I didn’t order, but there it was, and there it remained. I have slowly begun using them up, but I think I am going to have to add […]

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