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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 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 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 causing [...]
Posted in Cheap, Quick, Raves, Recipe, Vegan, Vegetarian on Feb 8th, 2010
I was raving just last week about my new-found love of citrus . Last week it was lemons, this week it’s limes.
Specifically, lime juice and jalapenos made into a dressing for this awesome salad. It’s sharp and spicy and piquant enough to cut through the winter malaise from which I, for one, am definitely suffering.
Posted in Quick, Raves, Recipe, Tips, Vegan, Vegetarian on Feb 3rd, 2010
A few weeks ago I made a vinaigrette with lemon juice instead of vinegar and some maple syrup as a sweetener, and I immediately fell in love with the combination.
Apparently, I am not the only one: Just a week later, I found myself at Back Forty – a terrific joint – eating brussels sprouts with [...]
This semester, I am on campus for lunch two days a week. I know — a measly two days is nothing. You, dear reader, are probably at work for lunch five whole days a week. Well, all the better for you. Because I’ve had to start thinking about how to pack my lunch.
What did I [...]
Posted in Cheap, Raves, Recipe, Vegan, Vegetarian on Jan 4th, 2010
And again, happy 2010 to you all! I hope your new year’s was everything you wanted it to be, and that this year is full of delights, culinary and otherwise.
One delight I’ll be making a lot more of in 2010 is these semi-homemade tortilla chips. I was going to write homemade, but then I realized [...]
Posted in Cheap, Quick, Raves, Recipe, Tips, Vegan, Vegetarian on Dec 14th, 2009
I love edamame, and my realization a few years ago that these sushi shop staples could be had at my local grocery store was very exciting for me (Is my life this dull?). In fact, bags of frozen edamame – shelled or unshelled – are so cheap that I realized how outrageous it is that [...]
Posted in Philosophy, Recipe, Vegan, Vegetarian on Dec 4th, 2009
It’s beginning to get cold outside, and that always makes me think of soup. But I have a few principles about soup that I never betray, and while these Principles may not actually stand up to sustained scrutiny, I abide by them all the same:
I never use vegetable stock. No one will ever be able [...]
Posted in Cheap, Quick, Recipe, Vegan, Vegetarian on Nov 22nd, 2009
This dish has been on my radar for a while, or, more precisely, since the Times published it on March 12, as a companion recipe to one of their first articles about Michelle Obama’s focus on getting America to eat better. They’ve since published article after article about her efforts to improve food in this [...]