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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 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 Cheap, Philosophy, Quick on Aug 31st, 2009
I have now officially been living in Minneapolis for one week. I still do not have: a bed, a couch, most of my clothes, any books, and various other sundry items (all en route from New York). I also do not have a bookshelf, a television, a nightstand, or a dining room table and chairs [...]
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 leave [...]
This one, ladies and gentlemen, is a keeper. One of those recipes that go in the mental repertoire to serve as a reliable fallback for any occasion, provided all the hungry mouths in need of feeding eat bacon.
And there are certainly plenty of people who can’t, don’t, or won’t eat bacon for plenty of very [...]
Posted in Cheap, Raves, Recipe, Vegetarian on Jun 8th, 2009
Coleslaw is one of those dishes that evaded my understanding for a long time. A pile of shredded cabbage drenched (sopping, in fact) in mayonnaise, flavorless, textureless, and mushy? Mm, sign me up. No wait, keep that as far away from me as possible. No, I don’t want it on the side of my sandwich, [...]
Posted in Books, Breakfast, Cheap, Food Junta, Philosophy, Quick, Raves, Recipe, Vegetarian on Jun 5th, 2009
Fact: 1780294 out of 1780294 American Gladiator contestants who ate this for breakfast kicked the patooties of contestants who ate Wheaties or Kurt Vonnegut’s 1973 novel for breakfast. You just can’t argue with those numbers.
Posted in Cheap, Quick, Recipe, Vegetarian on May 28th, 2009
I’d noticed a big box of Belgian endives on the shelf in the produce section of the Park Slope Food Coop every time I shopped for the past few weeks. I’d had a really delicious endive salad in France in March, and so, with visions of Vieux Lyon and andouillette dancing in my head, I decided [...]
Posted in Recipe, Vegetarian on Apr 17th, 2009
Editor’s Note: Molly made these two beautiful salads for the dinner party I brought my mac and cheese to. When I tasted how delicious they are, and also how wonderfully they complemented the mac and cheese, I asked her to write up the recipes for a post the same week as my mac and cheese [...]
I was feeling lazy and alliterative on Sunday evening, so I was very glad when my friend Julia came over with the recipe and ingredients for this salad.
She got this recipe from our friend Jana or Jana’s sister or some maniac who accosted her on the subway. Her story was suspiciously opaque. But wherever she [...]