soy sloppy joes
We’re in the dog days of August, and I’ve been falling behind on the cooking. There are a few reasons for this. It’s too hot to cook, for one thing. We’ve been making salad and pasta, or eating leftovers. And we had a few leftovers from Lidia’s Italy to take care of too. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Vegetarian Cooking’
The Whole Soy Cookbook: Speedy Sloppy Joes
The Food and Life of Oaxaca: Holy Mole!
amarillo (thick yellow mole), frijoles negros colados, arroz con tomatillos, basic corn tortillas
I’ve had The Food and Life of Oaxaca for a number of years, but have never cooked from it until now. This is partly because when I lived in Portland, I wasn’t sure where to find the authentic Mexican ingredients. Then I was [...]
A Man, a Can, a Plan: A Laugh
chunky kernel spread
I picked up A Man, a Can, a Plan from the discount tables at the Strand Bookstore a couple of years ago. It has so much to make fun of: thick cardboard pages of the kind usually found in babies’ picture books; “recipes” that involve mixing together the contents of cans and passing [...]
Totally Garlic Cookbook: Savory Taste of the Stinking Rose
garlic goat cheese spread
When I signed up to bring appetizers to the office picnic, I promised one vegetable-based dish and one “more indulgent” dish. The eggplant dip met the “vegetable-based” goal. For “more indulgent,” I decided that meant it had to have cheese. I also knew it had to be something that could be served [...]
Eat More, Weigh Less: The Joy of Eggplant
pita chips with roasted eggplant dip
Lately it seems to be taking an act of God to get me to cook much. I’m cooking dinner most evenings, but I’ve been doing easy lazy things. Pasta with sun-dried tomatoes, basil and chickpeas. Stir-fry. Hot dogs. Things that don’t require measuring or even really counting. I feel like [...]
Vegetarian Times Complete Cookbook: Pasta Salad for a Warm Evening
asparagus and carrots with pasta; chickpea saute with garlic and olives
You’ll have noticed that I haven’t posted in a while. You know how it feels when you’re busy all the time but if you stop and look back it’s hard to point to anything specific that quite accounts for all the time that passed? Yes, [...]
Still Life With Menu: More Veggie Goodness
Southwest salad with black beans and corn
I’m plugging along with the list; I’m not at all confident that I’ll finish by the end of June. I’m taking vacation time that last week, so I’m actually going to give myself through July 5, but even so, it’s not a sure thing. But I can at least [...]
Moosewood Restaurant Low-Fat Favorites: Light Veggie Goodness
zucchini saffron pasta
This is the pasta dish that I meant to make yesterday but saved for this evening. A good choice, as it turned out, since it was even hotter today and very stuffy. Last night’s hour-by-hour weather report forecast storms coming in by 4 pm, which would reduce the heat only a little but [...]
The Enchanted Broccoli Forest: The Cute Overload of Casseroles
enchanted broccoli forest
I’ve had the book The Enchanted Broccoli Forest for probably 20 years now, and it’s a great cookbook. It has a wide range of tasty entrees, plus one of the best instruction sections for how to make bread that I’ve seen anywhere. But I had never tried the title recipe, “enchanted broccoli forest,” [...]
