Posted in beans, gluten free, healthy, salad, vegetables on Aug 5th, 2010
I am not a fan of those recipes that try to hide vegetables in foods where they clearly don’t belong. For one thing, “deceptive” is not a word I want applied to any of my relationships. For another, I strongly believe that if you cook vegetables correctly, they’re so tasty that there’s no reason to [...]
Posted in gluten free, grilling, healthy, lamb, sandwiches, vegetables on Jul 31st, 2010
I actually made this back in February, but I figured most of the world was covered in snow in February and thus, not doing much grilling. Haha, suckers, grilling season lasts year round in the desert! Well, year round unless there’s an extra dose of heat in the summer, in which case you’re huddled inside [...]
Posted in citrus, gluten free, grilling, healthy, potatoes, summer, vegetables on Jul 29th, 2010
Last year I said, “You know what always makes me twitchy? Hearing people talk about how they just have sooo many zucchini or tomatoes or whatever from their garden.” Squeeeee!!!! And now I am one of those people! I am I am I am I am!!! Okay, sort of. I have hundreds of tomatoes growing, [...]
Posted in beans, healthy, pasta, spring, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal on Jun 30th, 2010
I had my doubts about this salad the whole time I was shopping for it, making it, testing it for seasoning, and serving it. But now, weeks later, my doubts are gone and I want some more. Except with better peas. Most of the doubts came from an unsuccessful shopping trip for ingredients. Sometimes I [...]
Posted in cheese, citrus, healthy, one pot meal, pasta, spring, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal on Jun 24th, 2010
I feel like I used to have this room (my life), and it had some stuff in it; mostly stuff I liked (cooking, reading, teaching, gardening), although of course there were things I didn’t (cleaning). My main problem was that it was too empty. There was too much space, and I could never get it [...]
Posted in breakfast, cheese, eggs, healthy, italian, vegetables, vegetarian on Jun 3rd, 2010
Back in Dave’s bachelor days, “pasta and red” was one of his standard dinners. He’d cook and drain pasta, put the pasta back in the pot, dump jarred tomato sauce over it, and stir it all up until it was warmish. Pasta and red. These days, I’m always insisting that ‘pasta and red’ is not [...]
Posted in cheese, healthy, pizza, vegetables, vegetarian on May 30th, 2010
I learned a fun fact at work the other day. The word bikini comes from Bikini Atoll, where a nuclear test bomb had recently been dropped. The designer of the bikini expected his new fashion to be “explosive”, and nuclear anything was all the rage back then. Yes, only sixty years ago, bikinis were nonexistent. [...]
Posted in cheese, citrus, gluten free, good as leftovers, healthy, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal, whole grains on May 22nd, 2010
I have annoying eating habits at work. Carrots – crunchy. Bananas – smelly. Hard-boiled eggs – crunchy (during the peeling) and smelly. My officemate is very tolerant. And on our first day in the office together, she asked me, “So is that how you stay thin? By eating healthy all the time?” Hmm… Call me [...]
Posted in cheese, healthy, salad, side dish, summer, vegetables on Mar 27th, 2010
Here are two common pairings that seem impractical to me – bread served with pasta and fries served with burgers. Of course they’re tasty combinations – who doesn’t love more carbs? – but do they make nutritional sense? Granted, a leafy green salad would be too refined, and roasted or steamed vegetables don’t go with [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, healthy, quick bread, whole grains on Mar 21st, 2010
Epicurious reviewers get a lot of flack for their “I made 8 million changes to the recipe and hated it” habit, but in general, I find them completely awesome. Without their unequivocal positive reviews, I wouldn’t have chosen this recipe at all, or I at least would have modified it. I started to have doubts [...]
