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Last week we hosted our first dinner party in our new apartment. I served an all-vegetarian meal, and it was a hit! I was the only vegetarian in attendance, but no one seemed to mind the menu:
sun-dried tomato hummus with fresh veggies
spinach and zucchini lasagna
green salad with a garlic-lemon dressing, cherry tomatoes, and toasted walnuts
cannellini […]
I have fallen in love with my bottle of liquid smoke. I’ve been experimenting with it in everything these days - soups, tofu, stir-fries, salad dressings… you name it, I’ve probably tried it with a splash of liquid smoke. Not that I’d recommend it with everything - liquid smoke’s strong flavor can be overpowering, so […]
Even though the weather is still changeable here, spring is definitely showing at the vegetable market - finally some new items are starting to show up.
The other day I picked up these perfectly round, white turnip-like thingies labeled Mairüben. A little poking around on the internet, and the best I can do for an English […]
Salad spinners seem to be essentials in some kitchens, and completely unheard-of in others. I don’t think I ever even saw one until I was 20 or so, so I can imagine that there are others out there who haven’t seen these things. A salad spinner is basically a 3-piece contraption that allows you to […]
…because I’m almost out of porcini bullion. Good reason, no?
I’m not usually big on pre-packaged food, but one area where I tend to get lazy is broth. When I lived in Italy I fell in love with these porcini mushroom flavored bullion cubes which are available all over the place there (but, to the best […]
The other day I picked up a bag of mung dhal - a kind of lentil I had never cooked with before. Since the package lacked even basic instructions, I did a little googling and came across this recipe for whole mung dhal that sounded simple and promising.
I more or less followed the recipe, except […]
This recent blurb about the Sierra Club’s PB&J campaign gave me a hankering for some peanut butter. So I made some, and ate it with a banana for breakfast. It was yummy.
What you need to make homemade peanut butter:
a food processor or blender that’s good at chopping
a spatula
peanuts (out of the shell)
salt (optional)
Instructions:
Put peanuts (and […]
I picked up this Spitzkohl, or pointed cabbage, last week at the vegetable market. I’m not usually a huge fan of cabbage, but I love trying new things, and I thought this cabbage was kind of cute.
It turned out to have a great flavor - mild and a little sweet. I used about half of […]
So my electric stovetop and I are slowly learning to get along (thanks in part to some reader tips!), but the one area in which my skills still need much improvement is the field of rice cooking. I am having a hard time finding the right settings that will help me avoid making a big […]
Yesterday I was whipping up a batch of hummus (using my easy creative homemade hummus recipe) when the jar of Thai red curry paste in my refrigerator caught my eye. I plopped about a tablespoon of it into the food processor along with the other ingredients (canned chick peas, lemon juice, olive oil, paprika, black […]
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