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Posted in Recipe on Mar 9th, 2010
I love cookbooks. I collect cookbooks. Sometimes, I read cookbooks in bed before going to sleep. I have been gratified in recent months to realize that a number of people also treat cookbooks as literature, but then I had this realization: I was only using them as literature.
Somehow, despite having already accrued 34 cookbooks here [...]
Posted in Recipe on Mar 8th, 2010
Kevin is off gallivanting in Massachusetts and asked me to post in his stead. I’ve been roommates with Kevin for some time and have long a been beneficiary of his Food Junta posts, but this is my first official entry into the books. I’m glad I waited for this dish, because it’s really something.
And it’s [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Dessert, Recipe, Vegetarian on Mar 5th, 2010
Good morning sports fans, and merry belated Winter Olympics. Weren’t they great, these past few weeks? Rushing home after work to catch some sweet biathlon footage only to find… really? More ice dancing? Okay, seriously, how many rounds of this are there? But in spite of tape delays, ice dancers and Apolo Ono’s soul patch, [...]
Posted in Recipe, Vegan, Vegetarian on Mar 3rd, 2010
Here on Food Junta, Claire and I regularly profess our love for soup. Soup is a hearty, satisfying, soul-soothing dish, but the real reason that Claire and I and other home cooks love soup so much is because it is so $@&$& easy to make.
Saute onions and/or garlic, add vegetables and/or meat, add water and/or [...]
Posted in Cheap, Quick, Recipe, Vegetarian on Feb 28th, 2010
Here at Food Junta, we mention the Minimalist a fair amount. But in all my minimalist reading, I don’t think I’ve ever seen MBittz wax quite as poetic as he did over this ginger fried rice, adapted from his friend and cookbook collaborator (and majorly fancy pants chef) Jean-Georges Vongerichten. Rarely do I read a [...]
Posted in Recipe on Feb 26th, 2010
I have always heard friends rave about Ben’s Chili Bowl in Washington, D.C. – it’s a bit of an institution to say the least. In fact, it’s become a can’t-miss whistle stop for presidential candidates, local politicians, and celebrities. Bill Cosby eats there. A lot.
Ben’s Chili Bowl is most famous for their “half-smoke,” a D.C. [...]
Posted in Recipe on Feb 23rd, 2010
This year, supposedly, is going to be the year of the meatball. Every other food newsletter I get brings news of a new meatball-focused restaurant opening in New York, or a restaurant newly adding meatballs to its menu. Strange, I think. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I love a good meatball (and the meatball [...]
Posted in Cheap, Quick, Raves, Recipe, Vegetarian on Feb 22nd, 2010
Don’t get me wrong, I love pancakes. But we can get sick of even our most beloved dishes from time to time, and after a few months of making pancakes nearly every weekend, I’ve been on a bit of a hiatus recently. But last night, I was reading Deborah Madison’s What We Eat When We [...]
Posted in Recipe, Vegan, Vegetarian on Feb 19th, 2010
One of the small joys of dating my boyfriend has been discovering another human being who likes his food as spicy as I do. Together, we sought out and loved this meal, have maintained and replenished five different types of hot sauce in our fridge, and collectively swooned when badass/softie at [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Cheap, Philosophy, Quick, Recipe, Tips, Vegetarian on Feb 17th, 2010
“We who approach our kitchens with ham-fisted dread must defy the Alexes of this world–those breezy souls who can reach into cupboards, rifle among the cereal boxes, and come back forty minutes later with a plate of Tunisian lambs’ jowls heightened with pomegranate seeds. Like seasoned gigolos, such people know only of success, repeated every [...]