I am looking for a way to articulate and act upon my growing conviction that the way we consume meat today is deeply misguided. What I am trying to do is to look my food in the face. Continue reading Meeting & Meating Pt.1: giving my food a face
This recipe will help knock back your zuke supply. If you’ve ever had a zucchini plant, you know that this can happen: You blink and you’re inundated. I’ve tried making zucchini chips, zucchini bread, zucchini muffins, grilled zucchini, zucchini moussaka, squash blossoms, zucchini fries… Once those squash plants start producing I’m always looking for an … Continue reading Zucchini baba ghanouj – a cool savory spread
This salad is a heap of roasted flavors. It captures summer goodness, though it’s warm and hearty enough for winter. Ingredients handful of grape tomatoes 3-4 cloves garlic, sliced half an onion 5-6 mushrooms spinach greens olive oil Steps Halve the grape tomatoes and toss with olive oil and a pinch of salt. Roast with … Continue reading Warm Spinach Salad with Roasted Tomatoes, Caramelized Onions, and Balsamic Mushrooms
I had a craving the other day (and by day, i mean month since it’s taken me so long to update…) for something tart and salsa-like, but I didn’t have any cilantro, onion, or lime at home to make the proper stuff. Here’s an adaptation using: tomato (1 medium) red & yellow bell pepper (1/2 … Continue reading Asian “Salsa”
I had spinach and chickpea and did a quick allrecipes.com search to see what can be made with these ingredients (other than salad). I found this fabulous-sounding soup recipe, and it is actually fabulous-tasting too. I ended up modifying it a bit because of different ingredients available. TO START, the soup base involved: 1 medium … Continue reading Spinach Chickpea Cream Soup
Last night for supper my roommate and I realized that many grocery stores were closed because of Good Friday. Pooling together our pantry hoards, we put together this meal. It’s a reminder too that we often jump to thinking “there’s nothing to eat…” when there is really abundance. Butternut Squash Soup (Baxter’s canned) Grilled cheese … Continue reading Good Friday
That was a typo, but i actually enjoy the look of that word. It looks Greek. Speaking of Greek, I want to make Greek-style potatoes because I have MANY potatoes that are waiting to be transformed into something delicious. The Greek potatoes I am thinking of are the lemony ones packed with herby flavour. I … Continue reading artichokeses and delivery
This is a very “student-friendly” pasta sauce. I came home late on Thursday night after a busy day teaching and tutoring. I had about 20 minutes to prepare some dinner before needing to do something else. I took out my wok, heated some olive oil, garlic, dried basil, oregano, some other miscellaneous herbs, and chili … Continue reading Quick Pasta
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