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Posted in Quick, Raves, Recipe, Vegetarian on Aug 2nd, 2010
Why is summer so great? Days spent lounging by the lake, long bike rides, fish tacos, homemade strawberry jam. All true. And you know what else? Everything just tastes so good! And it is now, I think, in these dog days of summer when everything starts tasting best. Juiciest, freshest, ripest. And so it is [...]
Posted in Recipe on Jul 30th, 2010
I told Kevin I’d write an “herb inspiration” about arroz con pollo. Then came a New York City heatwave and I said no way in hell/July am I browning chicken and stirring broth one spoonful at a time into steaming rice over the stove in my sweaty box of an apartment. So I’m going in [...]
Posted in Recipe, Vegan, Vegetarian on Jul 28th, 2010
What is the best way to deal with a 95-degree day, with an ungodly amount of humidity to boot? Probably not by going to hot yoga in the middle of the day, to practice down-dog in an 100-degree room. Yet, that is what I did yesterday. And then I came home, took a cold shower, [...]
Boot Camp is a back-to-basics series focusing on some classic easy-cooking staples. If you would describe your cooking ability as “my-easy mac-is-on-fire,” then this is a great place to start, and if you’re more of a veteran, we hope you’ll pick up on some new ideas and add advice of your own as a comment. [...]
Posted in Recipe, Vegetarian on Jul 23rd, 2010
Ed. note: I accidentally listed myself as the author of this post on its first day up. It is not, in fact, by me, but by FJ’s latest contributor, Mike. Welcome, Mike! My attitude towards life is best described as needless panic, and that’s exactly what you get when you put roasted red pepper lasagna [...]
As I told you a few weeks ago, I was recently comped a copy of Martha Stewart’s latest cookbook and have been working my way through it. I promise to give you my impressions of the book as a whole soon, but in the meantime, here’s another winner of a recipe from it to follow [...]
Posted in Dessert, Recipe, Tips, Vegetarian on Jul 19th, 2010
Cherries, I believe, are my favorite fruit, a not particularly convenient favorite fruit to have (but then again, when have you ever heard someone say that their favorite fruit is apples? or oranges?). I love cherries so much that it would be difficult for a bag of fresh ones to evade my clutches long enough [...]
Posted in Recipe on Jul 16th, 2010
When I first read Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal Vegetable Miracle, in which she chronicles the year her family devoted themselves to eating locally, I was all over it. I had read Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma just a few weeks before, so I was all about watching my food’s carbon footprint and eating what was in [...]
Posted in Dessert, Raves, Recipe, Vegetarian on Jul 14th, 2010
Prompted by a more ambitious friend, I finally dragged out my ice cream maker, which has been languishing in neglect for about two years now. It was schlepped from Berkeley to Brooklyn and back again, and then out here, with no use until now. Let this be a lesson: keep your appliances within easy reach, [...]
Posted in Recipe on Jul 12th, 2010
I think that Rachael Ray gets a bad rap. Yes, she’s a little too perky. Yes, she has an extraneous “a” in her name. And, yes, she does say “sammies.” But somewhere along the way, she became this terrible villainess who people love to beat up on, and I don’t really think that’s fair. Most [...]