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Posted in Beer, Wine, and Cocktails, Raves, Recipe, Tips, Vegan, Vegetarian on May 24th, 2010
Just in time for Memorial Day, an original knock-yo-socks off punch. This combo has been percolating in my brain for some time now — I think I had my first cucumber drink at Little Branch in December 2006. Since then, I’ve seen cucumber showing up in more and more drinks, but still not nearly enough [...]
I love chicken fingers, and I have for as long as I can remember. They are classic picky kid food (and believe it or not, I was a very picky eater as a kid) and aside from being delicious, they’re comfort food for me. So while they’re not something I eat every week, there are [...]
As is the case with a number of people I know, deciding what to cook is actually my least favorite part of cooking. So when my boyfriend demanded (actually, he asked very nicely) a dish he’d seen recently on Barefoot Contessa, I was doubly happy to oblige. Ina Garten (the eponymous Contessa) described pastitsio as [...]
Posted in Raves, Recipe, Tips, Vegetarian on Apr 14th, 2010
Risotto was not the first dish I learned to make, but it was the first Dish, the first thing I could serve to company and have them think I knew what I was doing in the kitchen. And it remains one of my go-to dishes when I’m cooking for guests. It borders on the foolproof, [...]
In addition to the great guest posts he does for Food Junta, Chris is a music journalist, writer, photographer, and Rolling Stone Intern. You can read his music writing over at The Stu Reid Experiment or keep up with all his escapades by following him on Twitter. A good friend of mine recently made the [...]
Posted in Quick, Rants, Raves, Recipe, Tips, Vegetarian on Mar 31st, 2010
The world is flat, as Thomas Friedman regularly bloviates, and while I’m not going to ponder the larger implications of that on this blog (or anywhere else for that matter), I do believe that it means every home kitchen should be an international kitchen. Budding home cooks often start with “American” staples – spaghetti marinara, [...]
Posted in Recipe, Tips, Vegan, Vegetarian on Mar 26th, 2010
I love curry. You love it too. Admit it. One of the major benefits of friends that enjoy talking about food just as much as I do: the recipe exchange. We’ve all got our go-to recipes, our oh-my-I-can’t-be-bothered-with-a-recipe recipes. My friend’s is curry. Excuse me?! Curry is something this Texan grew up eating OUT – [...]
Posted in Cheap, Quick, Raves, Tips, Vegetarian on Mar 24th, 2010
I am just back from spring break in glorious Berkeley and Big Sur, where I ate and ate and ate, and slept some, and hiked some, and mostly sat in the sun and let my poor undernourished Minnesota skin get some color. And where, besides one Very Oppressive book, I didn’t do a lick of [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Cheap, Quick, Recipe, Tips, Vegan, Vegetarian on Feb 10th, 2010
Hummus: A Middle Eastern dip or spread made from mashed chickpeas. Delicious, cheap, and easy, typically purchased in supermarkets (a flaw that is to be remedied today). Most commonly spelled in Turkish as humus, though this spelling is to be avoided in English for fear of confusion. Humus: The degraded organic material in soil, sometimes [...]