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Posted in Raves, Recipe, Tips, Vegetarian on Aug 8th, 2010
I couldn’t come up with a clever name for this post because I don’t know what to call this drink. The restaurant I stole the idea from calls it a smoothie, but the truth is that it’s more like a milkshake. What it really is, though, is a liquid creamsicle. Oh yeah, it also has [...]
Posted in Recipe, Vegan, Vegetarian on Aug 6th, 2010
Ed. note: See more of Joanna’s cooking — and gorgeous food photography — on her blog, Jojo’s Kitchen. Sometimes putting together a meal from whatever scraps you have left in the cupboard and fridge yields ho-hum results. Other times, magic happens. I’ll be so bold as to say that this dish falls into the latter [...]
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, 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, [...]
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 [...]
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 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 Cheap, Quick, Recipe, Vegan, Vegetarian on Jul 6th, 2010
As I sat down to write this post, I had a little smidgen of this left in the pot. As I write this sentence, that little smidgen has now been consumed. That is how good this combination is, that the mere thought of it necessitated the need for more. This dish couldn’t be simpler: three [...]
Posted in Cheap, Recipe, Vegetarian on Jun 30th, 2010
Potato salad is one of those dishes that — like coleslaw — befuddled me for a long time. So mayonaissey! So gloppy! So textureless! But it doesn’t have to be that way. In the last year or so, I’ve come around to both coleslaw and potato salad, to the point where I now actually (shamefully?) [...]
Posted in Cheap, Recipe, Vegetarian on Jun 28th, 2010
“I don’t go around promoting beef and poultry, shoving it in people’s faces. I don’t castigate people for not eating steak sandwiches; and I would never diss someone for being a fucking broccoli-head, or living off of radishes, or eating grass, or tofu.” – Immortal Technique, “Beef and Broccoli“ Since I began cooking for myself [...]