Posted in appetizers, beans, gluten free, healthy, italian, vegetables on Feb 24th, 2010
No matter how hard I try, I can’t get excited about the Thanksgiving feast. Turkey, stuffing, cranberries – I don’t know, they’re all just fine, but Thanksgiving isn’t the eat-until-you-pop day for me that it is for a lot of people. I do love the idea of a free for all food day [...]
Posted in beans, favorites, gluten free, healthy, one pot meal, vegetables, vegetarian, whole grains on Oct 22nd, 2009
Of all the whole grains, brown rice has been the hardest for me to accept. I realize now that I’d been cooking it wrong for years. I just couldn’t seem to cook it through all the way, and I tried a bunch of different recipes, but it was always crunchy.
Then sometime last year, [...]
Posted in beans, favorites, healthy, sandwiches, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal, whole grains on Oct 15th, 2009
I believe that people are what they think they are, which is just a less fancy way of saying that you can do just about anything you think you can do. I remember in high school, I consistently got an 89% in my classes, and I always wondered why I hadn’t worked just a [...]
Posted in beans, breakfast, eggs, favorites, potatoes, vegetarian on Sep 21st, 2009
Do you have a food you love from your hometown that you can’t get anymore? For New Mexicans, that food will always be Hatch green chile. It’s ubiquitous in New Mexico, and you won’t just find it in enchiladas and chile rellenos and the like, but in more unexpected places, like eggs and [...]
Posted in beans, cheese, fall, one pot meal, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal on Apr 6th, 2009
One of my (many) goals for this year was to cook less. And boy have I. My cooking and baking was getting out of hand there for a while and getting in the way of other things I needed to be doing. Like working. But I swung too far in the [...]
Posted in beans, freezer friendly, gluten free, healthy, outdoor cooking, vegetables, vegetarian on Feb 20th, 2009
When my sister plans meals for once-a-month freezer cooking, she usually tests a small batch of a recipe before making a larger batch to freeze. This is good practice, I recently learned. A few months ago, I made vegetarian chili to bring on a camping trip, and even though I was experimenting with [...]
Posted in beans, fall, gluten free, healthy, one pot meal, vegetables, weeknight meal on Nov 5th, 2008
Do you like squash? It seems like as soon as we were past Labor Day, everyone went squash crazy. I have reservations about squash that I think can be traced back to childhood.
I remember one Halloween, my mom roasted acorn squash for me and my brother, with brown sugar in the middle. [...]
Posted in beans, favorites, healthy, one pot meal, pasta, salad, summer, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal on Aug 1st, 2008
Food generally tastes better outside. Even more so after you’ve hiked eight miles while carrying a 25-pound pack. Since Dave and I almost always eat this couscous salad while we’re backpacking, it’s no wonder we like it so much. But last time we went camping, we got driven home early by, um, [...]
Posted in appetizers, beans, dips, healthy, vegetarian on Jun 6th, 2008
Oh my gosh, this was such a great meal. I had something similar at a restaurant a while ago when Dave and I stopped for lunch in Syracuse’s university area. I got the vegetarian combination plate, which included hummus, falafel, baba ganoush, pita, and I think tabbouleh. I was trying to recreate [...]
Posted in beans, gluten free, pork on May 25th, 2008
I can’t remember how I got it in my head to make franks and beans. I thought I had mentioned it in a blog post, but I can’t find it. Was it a comment on someone else’s blog? I thought I just idly mentioned it somewhere, and then I started thinking “yum…pork [...]
