Posted in Philosophizing, Recipes, Side dishes on Feb 5th, 2010
Potato wedges. Photo: Creative Commons/fotoosvanrobin
Though neither Super Bowl contender hails from the East Coast area that you likely inhabit, dear reader, your game day spread can still come from local sources. Why not? Local food supports the economy of your home town (or adopted city), and offers healthier options. And with year-round farmers markets in [...]
Posted in Recipes on Jan 5th, 2010
On my trip back from the West Coast, I finally got around to reading the Oberlin Student Cooperative Association alumni newsletter. What a joy! All the characters and the nutty news you’d expect from student-run living and dining appeared on those pages: A current Obie fresh from a national co-op conference related the perils of [...]
Days or weeks can go into planning a Thanksgiving menu. Yet something always comes up at the last minute. Need to satisfy a visiting vegetarian? Forgot a dessert? Here are two ideas to help.
1. For the vegetarian or other adventurous eaters at your table, try. Un-Turkey and Stuffing. This is my own adaptation of a [...]
Posted in Recipes on Oct 7th, 2009
A tomato ripe for roasting. Photo by the author.
(Cross-posted from my Examiner.com page on D.C. farmers markets)
Cucumbers by the quart. Fifteen-pound watermelons. Hunks of farmstead cheese. Entire organic chickens. Smiling at you from a farmer’s table, they look delicious. Plunked down on the kitchen counter, they get a little more complicated. Turning them into good-for-you [...]
Posted in Entree pour vous, Recipes on Oct 7th, 2009
This recipe uses my new favorite grain, amaranth. Amaranth comes from a plant much like callaloo. Amaranth–the grain part–manages to cook up both chewy and mushy. It eats like a hearty porridge with bursts of firm morsels. I looked at my first batch of this creamy base and had a feeling it would make a [...]
Posted in Recipes, Technology on Sep 10th, 2009
To participate in the sustainable food movement today is to live on the edge of irony. Especially if you’re taking part in the movement from a seriously urban setting like, say, Washington, D.C.
What do I mean by this? Just look at this summer. Over the past few months, I’ve taken digital pictures of my hands [...]
Posted in Drinks, Entree pour vous, Kvetching, Recipes on Sep 2nd, 2009
Cross-posted from Examiner.com
What’s with tomatoes and watermelon this year? I have seen them side by side at local farmers markets, of course, having both come into season recently. But in an odd development, I started to see them together in recipes, too.
At first, I noticed the usual myriad recipes for watermelon-feta salad sometimes included halved [...]
Posted in Drinks, Events, Recipes, Side dishes, desserts on Aug 27th, 2009
The following is cross-posted from The Jew & the Carrot
A group of Jewish food lovers, a spread of delectable dishes, and milkshakes made of laughter. If it were possible for one afternoon to be too good, this is where it would start.
A group of Jew & the Carrot writers, editors, and friends faced the risk—overflowing [...]
Posted in Recipes on Jul 13th, 2009
Photo: Flickr Creative Commons/Stu Spivack
For months, I heard nothing. About granola, that is. Then, in the past week, requests for my recipe for this humble breakfast food started pouring in. Ok — so maybe I’ve only had two inquiries. It still constitutes a pattern, I say!
If the people want it, I will provide.
(Recipe after the [...]
Posted in Entree pour vous, Recipes on Jul 9th, 2009
Although never explicitly a vegetarian blog, this site struck many readers as meat-free—probably because I was. Yes, I WAS. I’ve been eating fish for a few months now, though I haven’t really said anything on YaD.
While keeping up my babble about veggies, I’ve been engaging in a little self-education and finding new cooking opportunities around [...]
