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Posted in Raves, Recipe, Tips, Vegan, Vegetarian on Aug 18th, 2010
Appetizers, hors d’ouvres, small plates – whatever you want to call them, I love them. I think I like them so much because appetizers are often more adventurous than your average main course. They’re an opportunity for chefs – or home cooks – to experiment safely: If the experiment goes wrong, there’s still an entree [...]
Posted in Recipe, Vegetarian on Jan 21st, 2010
This FJ contributor has recently moved to San Francisco and has discovered, amidst the dazzling array of California produce, the splendors of beets. One of the “11 healthiest foods you aren’t eating,” a root vegetable that is flavorful and satisfying, and of a reddish-purple hue brilliant enough to brighten up the San Francisco January rain, [...]
Posted in Cheap, Recipe, Vegetarian on Sep 21st, 2009
…the multitudinous seas incarnadine. Macbeth was talking about his bloody hand, but beets are pretty incarnadinacious in their own right. Just have a look at this pasta. No food coloring. No photoshop. That’s just pasta that’s absorbed beet juice, which I suppose – if you’re getting picky – is pretty much food coloring after all. [...]
Posted in Recipe, Vegetarian on Nov 14th, 2008
One of the inconveniences of life in my first apartment has been making do without the arsenal of gadgets in my mother’s kitchen. I felt most deprived in my first few weeks here, when my stuff was in transit and I was reduced to preparing gruel-like dishes with a camping cookset — a subject for [...]
Posted in Philosophy, Recipe on Sep 30th, 2008
L’shanah tovah, Food Junta readers. Today is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and l’shanah tovah is the usual greeting, meaning “may you have a sweet year” (there are other translations as well, but “sweet” works best here). On Rosh Hashanah, we typically dip apples in honey, to symbolize this sweetness. I did that. I [...]
Posted in Cheap, Raves, Recipe, Tips, Vegetarian on May 16th, 2008
So, before going home, I actually made a weekend stopover in Portland, Oregon, both to visit a friend and to check out the restaurant/farm/local food scene I have been hearing so much about for the last couple of years. The city — filled with microbreweries and food co-ops — did not disappoint, and the farmers’ [...]
[Editor's note - I've been on a bit of hiatus, but I return to glory with this quick recipe. More soon.] This is a somewhat austere example of what I was discussing a few weeks ago about a meal not needing to be a Meal. Simply take a cooked beet, slice, and drizzle with olive [...]