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Posted in Cheap, Quick, Recipe, Vegan, Vegetarian on Aug 25th, 2010
I had an avocado, a cucumber, some chicken stock. I had just received a hand-me-down blender. It was a scorchingly hot day; I had a little time to make lunch, but not much, as I was anxious to leave my house for an air-conditioned coffee shop. And, I had just perused the latest issue of [...]
Posted in Recipe on Aug 11th, 2010
The other day was shockingly cool here in Minneapolis (70 degrees or so, rather than the last few days’ 90). I had a refrigerator bursting with produce, most overwhelmingly including eight ears of corn, but also potatoes and onions from the farmer’s market. And cream, and milk that I meant to turn into ricotta but [...]
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 on Jul 16th, 2010
When I first read Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal Vegetable Miracle, in which she chronicles the year her family devoted themselves to eating locally, I was all over it. I had read Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma just a few weeks before, so I was all about watching my food’s carbon footprint and eating what was in [...]
Posted in Cheap, Quick, Recipe, Vegetarian on Apr 30th, 2010
For the second installation of Cooking Con Carlos, we were given a real treat: an introduction to salmorejo, a cold soup from Carlos’ native Andalucía, Spain’s hot, haunting southernmost region. Gazpacho, salmorejo’s more famous cousin, has been known to come out of my blender on several occasions (thanks for the recipe, Grandma!), so I was [...]
Posted in Recipe on Mar 9th, 2010
I love cookbooks. I collect cookbooks. Sometimes, I read cookbooks in bed before going to sleep. I have been gratified in recent months to realize that a number of people also treat cookbooks as literature, but then I had this realization: I was only using them as literature. Somehow, despite having already accrued 34 cookbooks [...]
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 [...]
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 heart Chris Perez took [...]
Posted in Recipe, Vegan, Vegetarian on Nov 16th, 2009
Last week was the final week of my CSA (more on that soon), and after my pick-up, I wrongly thought I was headed home with a kombucha squash. I still think this may have been what the chalkboard at the pick-up site had written on it, but there is no way to be certain. Likely, [...]
Posted in Recipe, Tips, Vegetarian on Feb 23rd, 2009
I got off the Bolt Bus (which receives my hearty endorsement) at around 3 pm on Sunday. It was grey and rainy and windy, and I had no idea what to cook. All I knew was that I needed some serious soul-warming. I hit the damp remnants of the farmer’s market about 15 minutes later [...]