Though many would say that it’s not actually our best sandwich (in a city with plenty of serious sandwiches), Philadelphia is certainly known for its cheesesteaks. Greasy, gooey hoagies with enough salt and fat to make your heart stop, part of their charm is their excess. But for vegetarians, and those that like a few [...]
Posts Tagged ‘garlic’
8 Sep
Black Pepper Tofu
I’m about to make a very bold claim: this is, very likely, the most delicious dish I have every cooked. Seriously. In the last 19 years of cooking, I think that I have never, every made anything this delicious. This black pepper tofu recipe from Plenty involved fried tofu, butter, shallots, red chilis, 12 cloves [...]
29 Aug
Baked Eggs with Yogurt and Chili
This weekend we had a hurricane move up through the East Coast, and I spent most of the weekend holed up in my house, watching bad movies, checking the weather report, baking 10 dozen cookies, and eating. Luckily, we never lost power and I was still able to use my kitchen! The above dish makes [...]
6 Jul
Early Summer Harvest
In addition to the full share CSA from Lancaster Farm Fresh that I share with my housemate, I have two 8X4 raised beds that I constructed in the abandoned yard next to my house. This year I really got on the early planting, and this early attention has yielded great early summer crops. I thought [...]
26 Jun
Spinach Chop
What happens if you take all of the ingredients in your favorite spinach salad, wilt the spinach, add harissa and chopped almonds? The delicious version of the “Spinach Chop” in Simply Natural Everyday. Some browned garlic, a healthy dollop of spicy harissa, and wilted spinach, plus chopped eggs, lemon zest and almonds. I used the [...]
14 Jun
Savory CousCous Salad
I love grain salads, but I often want them to pack a little more punch. This simple salad (really!) included fried chard and garlic, along with chopped carrots, red onions, green onions, sun-dried tomatoes in oil, capers, diced carrots and some raw sprouted chickpeas. I added (of course) some oil to the couscous and a [...]
27 Aug
Canning Tomatoes
Since my various heirloom tomato plants have all decided this year to either get the blight or under-produce, I ordered 20 pounds of roma tomatoes from the Lancaster Farm Fresh CSA for canning. They arrived with the rest of my CSA delivery, in a very strong box. Growing up in Indiana, a least a couple [...]
30 Apr
Raw Beet Slaw
“Slaw” is a pretty loose term. Finely chop some veggies up, add vinegar, and you have one. I had some beautiful beets and remembering a raw beet, carrot and apple slaw I once sampled at the Prospect Park farmer’s market, I set to work. Of course, because I had a fridge full of greens, I [...]
24 Feb
Thai Cabbage Slaw, Mineola Tempeh and Kiwi salsa
I’m so glad that I discovered I love cabbage. This recipe is a variation on a recipe posted on 28 Cooks, itself a variation of a recipe from The Daily Raw Cafe. Or course, I made some changes based on what I had in the kitchen and pantry, and what I like best. It was [...]
29 Jan
Favorite Spicy Mushroom Udon Soup
The soup with knock the cold right out of you. I make everytime I feel the sniffles coming on, and much more often than that. At least 50% of the time, when I ask Senor Lanky what he wants to eat, this is what he requests.I don’t actually every use a recipe for this – [...]
