Posts under ‘Recipes’

Last night, Fatemeh assigned me the job of side dishes to go with pork chops. Roasted fingerlings, I decided, and roasted green beans tossed with preserved rangpur lime, because in the Bay Area, summer is so damn chilly and foggy that it’s quite normal to be able to roast up some vegetables a la winter.
While [...]

I have friends all over the place, most of whom I’ve met the old-fashioned way: in person, through some job or school or work or networking connection. But oh, how the Internet has enriched my life and brought me in touch with people who, otherwise, I might never have met.
Yeah, I’m pretty much going to [...]

Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared yesterday on BlogHer, but in case you’re not a BlogHer reader, I wanted to share these great ideas in case you’re still planning your New Year’s menu!
The year is almost over, and it’s time to settle on the menu for New Year’s gatherings. I love using New Year’s Eve [...]

There are families who serve the same thing, year after year, on their holiday table. They know exactly what casserole goes in which dish, which salad will arrive via which relative, and what main course will emerge from the oven with just enough time to rest before dinner’s served.
We’ve never really been that kind of [...]

I bought sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving, but in the crush of food that me and my fantastic guests made and brought, they became superfluous, which means I’m now managing a sweet potato surplus. Earlier this week, I started dispatching them using a great recipe for Soy-Glazed Sweet Potatoes with Sesame Seeds I found on my [...]

As I was shopping for the Hunger Challenge and pondering the budget-friendly combo of potatoes and eggs, it occurred to me that one of my very favorite Spanish recipes is also one of the most economical ones I know. Tortilla español, with its simple combination of flavors, is just an advanced version of a frittata, [...]

Last week’s Hunger Challenge wrapped on Saturday, but I’m still working on recipes that combine the ingredients that I was able to purchase on my $28 budget. I’ll be rolling those out this week for your reading (and eating-on-a-budget) pleasure. I’m also still working on a post that lays out an entire menu for the [...]

I promised I’d share a few recipes that use the roasted vegetable stock, and the first one is one of the recipes that I planned to post as part of my write-up of the Hunger Challenge, but just never got around to organizing.
This particular recipe is incredibly simple, quick, nourishing and tasty. When I made [...]

I have no excuse for buying vegetable stock my entire life. I don’t know why I thought tetra packs of the stuff contained some kind of non-creatable magic, but I finally broke out of this silly habit of consumption this weekend and tried making my own.
This particular kind required a couple of hours of time, [...]

I love butternut squash, but don’t eat it nearly as often as I would like, mostly because I hate the act of prepping it. It’s not difficult, but it’s just enough of a pain that I generally pass it over in favor of other solid sources of Vitamins A, B and C.
But not that long [...]