December 17, 2020
Using up my produce makes up a good amount of my home to-do’s. This week, some of the scratch-made seitan loaves would find delicious partnership with the contents of my fruit and vegetable bowls: apples, pears and the gnarly bulbous celeriac… or celery root. Perhaps you’ve seen these beauties in Read more…
December 2, 2020
I have been experiencing very specific cravings for loaded potato bar food: tater tots and potato skins. And because I like to make myself happy, I devoted my day to satiating this hankering. Starting with making my own seitan… As I have begun pantry turnover, I had to improvise some Read more…
May 18, 2019
Stir fries (frys?) are the perfect solution for refrigerator turnover. Besides having the opportunity to make your stir fry exactly to your tastes, you can throw all sorts of things in that have been taking up space. I chose broccoli and a lot of it because I believe there are Read more…
January 7, 2018
Sure, it’s freezing outside. Mounds of snow complicate walking and driving and dressing. ….But it’s chili time! What I love about chili is how you can throw the kitchen sink in… then throw the kitchen sink on top of it. It is a vehicle for all those purposeless loiterers in Read more…
November 15, 2010
The cold weather means a weekly batch of soup. Soul-warming soup. We’re still here in autumn so here is a preview of my looming soup-a-thon, a scrumptious carrot and coconut milk soup in autumn’s color. Acorn squash stuffed with wheat berry, pecans, cranberry and green onion. A hearty edible bowl. Read more…
October 13, 2010
Somewhere, sometime, I must have been privy to regular acts of gastronomy. I must have been a royal member of the court of Epicureanism of the highest rank. I must have tucked these food standards in the pocket of the soul that passes from life to life, like a little Read more…
October 10, 2010
Whipped up a batch of vegan nachos… mostly to utilize the cheese whiz-type stuff I made a couple of weeks back for the Phillies ballpark jaunt. Although I completely forgot to ground up some Amy’s burgers for the protein, they were very good! I used some refried kidney beans Read more…
October 5, 2010
There’s no time of year I like more than autumn. Crisp and rustling days with their Earth tones, a thick-socked morning giving way to as-long-as-you’re-in-the-sun afternoons and a fleece blanket draped night, draped–not buried. And chili is appropriate again. Chili, the perfect cool-weather eat. With some heart and some heat Read more…