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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, Quick, Recipe, Vegetarian on Mar 29th, 2010
Cooking with other people is one of the great joys of my life, and one that happens all too infrequently here in Minneapolis, what with grad school schedules and budgets and kitchen sizes. While I adore my apartment, it has a narrow, narrow kitchen — perfect for one, less perfect for anymore than one. And [...]
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, Recipe, Vegetarian on Nov 9th, 2009
The traditional method for clearing out an overly full fridge is making soup. I guess this makes sense, but my mind doesn’t work as well when it comes to improvising liquid-type matter, and so I usually stick to omelets. You can put almost anything in an omelet! You cannot, however, put stale bread in an [...]
Posted in Recipe, Vegetarian on Sep 28th, 2009
Besides being Yom Kippur (otherwise known as the most important day of the Jewish year), today is also a big day because it’s the day I finally fulfilled my good Jewish girl destiny and made a kugel for the very first time. What is a kugel? A kugel is basically a giant barge of a [...]
Summer is a tough time for cookery, especially in a hot city of small kitchens. Although there’s great produce to be had, the idea of spending much time in front of the stove is unappealing to say the least. Which is why summer cooking takes some adjustments: Nothing in the oven unless you’re able to [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Cheap, Quick, Recipe, Tips, Vegetarian on Jun 30th, 2009
Egg salad is another thing (like coleslaw) that I thought was pretty disgusting until I made it myself. And then I realized that it’s delicious — and easy, and cheap. And endlessly variable. Here are some guidelines: egg salad is best when it’s freshly made, slightly warm, not too mayonnaisey, and served open-faced on a [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Cheap, Recipe, Vegetarian on May 22nd, 2009
Tortilla española with a side of purple kale Last night I had a few friends over to bid bon voyage to a friend who is leaving town for the summer. Fired up the grill, slapped on some steaks, potatoes au gratin, wine, dessert – the works. However, this morning one thing became clear – my [...]
Posted in Cheap, Recipe, Vegetarian on Apr 6th, 2009
Despite their terrifyingly Orwellian name, the American Egg Council really did something right when they came up with that “incredible edible egg” campaign. Maybe I’m just a sucker for internal rhyme, but nearly every time I buy or cook with eggs, that little slogan runs through my head. I look at the eggs, and I [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Recipe, Vegetarian on Mar 26th, 2009
“The recipe below and the process I’ll describe will help you make matzoh brei the way my lovely mother makes it…which may not be quite the way you’ve had it before, but is definitely worth doing. I particularly recommend this recipe to people who, like me, are totally %$^&ing helpless in a kitchen and whose culinary attempts result in things like fires and irreconcilable interpersonal strife. If you have two left spatulas, give this a shot.”