tacoThis past Tuesday I went to a lovely dinner party co-hosted by two vegetarians. Well, we all know I’m a big meat eater, so you can imagine how happy I was that all the food was fantastic! It was very refreshing to eat an entirely vegetarian meal. In fact, it was so good that it inspired me to cook my own version of these veggie burritos last night. The following recipe is very simple and very healthy. It reminds me of something one would find at a vegetarian restaurant inTopanga Canyon or some other laid back hippie town.
Category Archives: ten for two
Mini Lamb Burgers with Carrot Coriander Salad
Every now and then I peruse my cookbooks and mark recipes that I want to make one day. This meal is an adaptation of two different recipes. Both cookbooks were gifts a few years ago and they have served me well!
The first recipe comes from David Tanis’ A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes. Tanis is one of the head chefs at Chez Panisse. He spends 6 months cooking at Chez Panisse and the other 6 months in Paris. Hopefully if I ever make it out to Berkeley, Tanis will be cooking in the kitchen that night.
Root Liquor
I don’t know about you, but I loved root beer floats as a child. I have very vivid memories of drinking them on humid summer afternoons while visiting my grandma in Chicago. The website for this Root stuff has a bunch of different recipes, but I wanted to make a classic root beer float, which is just root beer and vanilla ice cream.
cabbage and scallops
Has anyone else noticed the subtle cabbage trend lately? A few months ago I read an article on kimchi in Saveur. Last month, Martha did a big spread on all different ways to cook cabbage. Last week, a friend of mine sent me a recipe for roasted cabbage with bacon. Cabbage [...]
CEVICHE
by jaime
Happy New Year everyone! I know it’s freezing over here on the East Coast, but I just got back from a very warm coast, and I wanted to share a recipe with you all that I ate over the holidays. I have been on what you could call a “ceviche hiatus” for the past [...]
Latkes
Hi everyone. Sorry for being such a terrible blogger lately-things just get a little crazy around the holidays! It’s Chanukah this week, and so I figured it was appropriate to make latkes. Latkes, for those of you unfamiliar with the term (although I don’t know how one would be living in New York) are really [...]
Pumpkin Soup
This pumpkin soup recipe is adapted from my friend Lindsey’s recipe. She taught me how to make this soup in high school, and I always crave it around this time of year. Making pumpkin soup is a really easy way to get into the holiday spirit, and it also happens to be a very simple [...]
Soba Noodles w/ Kale and Chickpeas
Ever since I started writing this column, I have had lots of people share their favorite recipes with me. This week I am happy to present a guest recipe from my friend S. S is quite the cook (a bamboo steamer is one of her favorite kitchen tools and she makes a mean cookie), but [...]
stuffed peppers
I’m not going to sit here and write that these are the best stuffed peppers you will ever have. They are, however, relatively healthy (no carbs), and remind me of the Holidays, which we are slowly approaching. Instead of stuffing these with beef and rice and all sorts of other fillers, I kept [...]
Vicky Christina Barcelona
Ah, to be in college again-so young and carefree…the opportunity to study abroad…I just returned from visiting my brother in Barcelona where he is doing just that. (Well, he is actually in Santander, a great little beach town in the north, but we met up in Barcelona.) What can I say? The food was just [...]
Skate with Brussels Sprouts
Here’s how this column typically comes to fruition: By Saturday, I have thought of something I am going to cook. It’s going to be my best meal yet! I say I am going to do this on Sunday. Sunday goes by, haven’t cooked. Monday night, don’t have time. By the time Tuesday rolls around, I [...]
Mustard, an apology
Last week while standing in my office’s kitchen making a turkey sandwich, I came to the realization that I no longer have a strong dislike of mustard. In fact, I have completely underestimated the role of mustard in my culinary life. Mustard makes a good accompaniment to so many different things: pretzels, sausages, and Chicago [...]
Orzo Salad
Did anyone else notice how hot it was yesterday? Around 1pm in particular? Yea, me too. I so desperately want it to be fall: sweaters, scarves, gloves, butternut squash soup, brussel sprouts (just a few of the reasons I love this season). Well, folks, I woke up this morning and what you do you know-it’s [...]
Greenmarket Salad
Last Saturday I met J for a quick coffee at Cafe Pedlar, the new cafe next to (and owned by) Frankie’s Spuntino. They are brewing up Stumptown coffee (yum), but also happen to serve food from next door. So after J left, I decided to stay for a little while, enjoy my book, and order [...]
Noodle Kugel
For Mom because I can’t be home for the holidays and for Andi because I think about you every time I make kugel
This week I would like to take a break from my meals and share with you my Aunt’s kugel recipe, which is fitting since we are upon the Jewish Holidays. My Aunt Andi [...]