Posted in alcohol, cheese, favorites, freezer friendly, good as leftovers, italian, pasta, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal on Aug 19th, 2010
People keep asking me how my recent vacation was, and I can’t think of any response other “so, so good.” How else do you sum up a week of playing in the waves, drinking margaritas, snorkeling, baking cookies, swimming with sea lions, watching shooting stars, eating shrimp tacos, and just basically everything that is good. [...]
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 cookies, dessert, fruit, nuts, tuesdays with dorie, vegetables on Aug 3rd, 2010
I was complaining to my sister about these cookies, all, wwahhh! I don’t like carrot desserts! when she told me that her husband had made carrot-raisins-nut-coconut muffins that day, and her 4-year-old refused to eat them. “I don’t like the carrot muffins”, he claimed. Great, I have the tastes of a 4-year-old. On the other [...]
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 cheese, summer, vegetables on Jul 22nd, 2010
I didn’t realize how sexual plants were until I started growing zucchini. Concerned that my plants weren’t being pollinated, I did some research and found that to hand-pollinate zucchini, all you have to do is rub the male flower’s pistil on the female’s stigma. Kinky. But how to tell the difference between male and female [...]
Posted in citrus, fruit, gluten free, grilling, mexican, pork, vegetables on Jul 15th, 2010
I try not to be picky. I like to call myself ‘particular’ – about the quality of ingredients and the care put into the preparation of a dish; Dave calls it persnickety. But eliminating whole categories of food from my diet because of a random childhood prejudice seems like a perfect way to cheat myself [...]
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 beans, gluten free, good as leftovers, rice, side dish, vegetables on Jun 20th, 2010
Side dishes aren’t my strong suit. I often find myself googling dorky things like “what to serve with Jamaican jerk chicken?” Rice and peas kept coming up, and I kept bypassing it. Who wants green peas mixed with plain white rice? It turns out, of course, that rice and peas is nothing of the sort. [...]
