Friday, December 31, 2010
Happy New Year!
Broiled Flank Steak
The meat came from a local producer who brought it to the farmer's market. I made it the way my mother always did: doused it with soy sauce, let it stand for a few hours, then broiled it for a few minutes on each side. Holy heck was it delicious. We had it with brown rice and shredded kohlrabi (dressed with pomegranate molasses, rice vinegar, soy sauce, and olive oil).
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Grilled Steak
with sweet potatoes and roasted brussels sprouts. For dessert Greek Christmas cookies made by my neighbor; I could eat them and never stop.
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Holiday Cheeseballs and Cheer
We had a little holiday party last night; very much fun with food and drink. True, the roaming, unsupervised pack of children left a fine coating of Goldfish crumbs over everything, but what's a little cleanup during the holidays. If you have people over I recommend the following appetizer, straight from the suburban sixties: olive cheeseballs. Grate one block of sharp cheddar, add one cup of flour, and pour in enough melted butter to make a crumbly dough (about a stick will do it, but proportions aren't that crucial). Squish said dough into complete casings for small green olives, one at a time, and bake at 350 for about half an hour. Your kitchen will smell wonderful, your guests' mouths will water, and all will be eaten.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Antalya
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Scrambled Eggs
with roasted cauliflower and mushrooms, and corn on the cob. The thing about good eggs is that all you have to do is cook them with salt and butter, and they have the most complex flavor.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Citron
Grilled Fish
I don't remember what kind! Halibut? Mahi? I think Mahi. We had it with brown rice and roasted-beet-and-green-apple salad.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Monday, December 13, 2010
Kale Soup
kind of: with potatoes and Italian sausage and enough broth to make sort of a stew. Very delicious.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Grilled Steak
Two steaks from a local producer, now selling at the farmer's market, absolutely perfectly grilled by my spouse. We had them with baked sweet potatoes, and roasted cauliflower, carrots and red peppers. It was a grand meal, totally out of scale to how we usually eat on a weekend night.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Tagine Leftovers
Wow; it turns out the way to correct a less than perfect tagine meal is simply to throw it in the fridge and re-heat a couple of days later. Yum!
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Leftover Duck
with cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, and sauteed mei quing. As usual, the sweet potatoes were the stars.
Monday, December 6, 2010
Butternut Squash Tagine
I would like to understand my tagine, so I need to use it more. Last night I made in it onion, peppers, squash, carrots, olives, dried cherries, preserved lemons, and pine nuts. A lot was wrong (soupy where it should have been syrupy, unassertive spicing) but, served over brown rice with roasted cauliflower, a lot was right, too.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Nitrous Oxide
Not a whole lot of dinner happening around here lately. There would have been one yesterday had I not gone in for a root canal. Nasty procedure, I assume, though I was too high on nitrous at the time to be able to say for sure. I had many drug-induced insights, but here's the one that stays with me: the four-chord sequence that underlies "Billie Jean" is the same one that structures "Moondance!" How did I never hear that before?
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
Lovely Leftovers
Duck, brown rice, cranberry sauce, and salad. But most importantly, my spouse picked all the remaining green tomatoes on our black-cherry tomato vines, dredged them in flour, and sauteed: *delicious.*
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Duck Soup
If there's one thing I like better than a roast bird (and there isn't) it's a roast bird carcass, just waiting to be made into stock. In this case I used the three duck carcasses we had to make a stock of deep richness; I ended up with two quarts of shaking golden jelly. I used about half of it to make soup last night. In the tradition of all my soups it involved everything I could lay hands on in the fridge: onions, fennel, red peppers, black beans, duck meat, turnips, and shucked corn. It was great last night and even better today.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Happy Thanksgiving!
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
22 Leaves Shawlette
Friday, November 19, 2010
Roasted Red Peppers
our CSA ones again. Truly, I wish this blog had a sens-o-matic feature so I could demonstrate for you the deep fruitiness of these peppers when roasted. We had them with roasted cauliflower and shiitakes, and brown rice.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Scrambled Eggs
with roasted red peppers (from our CSA; they tasted like jam, just unbelievably concentrated and fruity), fried potatoes, and salad.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Hello Again
after my long absence. I celebrated a return to making dinner with steak, brown rice, and chard with garlic. All was delish, especially the Meyer lemon chutney I had with the steak. It happens that I have lately been traveling in cold climes, which meant much new sweater-wearing, so I'm happy.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Monday, November 1, 2010
Pasta and Salad
for two nights running; one night I threw in some sauteed mustard greens just to shake things up a little. For Halloween, pizza and candy.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Hash of Leftovers
Fresh red peppers and onion sauteed with leftover black rice and pork chop. Heaven. With salad.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Blue Hat
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
Surf and Turf
Grilled steak and shrimp, courtesy of the spouse. with green beans and baked sweet potatoes.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
"Acorns" Sweater
Friday, October 15, 2010
(Almost the) Last Farmer's Market Meal
Tiny yellow crookneck squashes, sliced tomatoes, pan-roasted okra, and scrambled eggs.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Baked Sweet Potatoes
with roasted cauliflower and shiitakes, and bitter greens cooked with bacon and garlic. This dinner was a winner.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
Hat and Scarf
Pancake Au Levain
Friday, October 8, 2010
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Sugar Cookies!
Pane di Altamura
Saturday, September 25, 2010
V2K!
Friday, September 24, 2010
Second Verse
much the same as the first: chicken stew over brown basmati rice, with masses of okra (home-grown and CSA).
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Chicken Stew
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
Whole Wheat Sourdough Miche
For dinner last night we had lamb chops, okra, and curried (disgusting, watery, flavorless) acorn squash.
Labels:
Carb City,
Local Breads,
Starter,
What'd We Have for Dinner?
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Hawthorne
Scrappy Sourdough
Saturday, September 11, 2010
The Best Darn Sweet Potatoes
I've ever had. They came from the farmer's market, and I don't know what made them so different from the usual, but I had two and wished for more. We had them with okra and salad.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Leyfi Sweater
Monday, September 6, 2010
Coconut Curry
with butternut squash and field peas, over brown rice. With the first CSA salad since the spring!
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Curried Acorn Squash
with okra and fried potatoes. Dinner is so strange; sometimes I labor and plan and it all looks like it's going to be great and then it's just ok. And then, rarely, as last night, I throw it together with moderate hope and it turns out to be *sublime*.
Friday, September 3, 2010
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
The Pirates of the Caribbean I, II, & III

Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Lemon Thyme Chicken
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Chocolate Sour Cherry Bread
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Sesame Seed Kamut Levain
Missoniesque T
Impromptu Stew
of squash, peppers, field peas, onions, garlic, peanut butter, coconut, and curry. Delicious over brown basmati rice.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Tuna
pan-seared; I mean, that's what it was supposed to be. I envisioned clear ruby fish-flesh but we ended up eating barely pink tuna instead. Actually, it was pretty good anyway. We had it with brown rice and okra (in case you haven't noticed, we are overrun with okra these days, as we are every August.)
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Whole Wheat Sourdough Miche
Friday, August 20, 2010
Fritatta
of leftover vegetables from last night, with added field peas. With pan-roasted okra, ours and our CSA's.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Grilled Halibut
with roasted potatoes, sprouts, and red peppers. Sounds good, right? Ick. The fish was bitter, the vegetables underdone.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Weekend Round-Up
Friday, August 13, 2010
Grilled Steak
with Indian spiced okra and sweet potatoes. My reaction to eating sweet potatoes is almost always "man; I should eat more sweet potatoes."
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Okra Flowers
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Grilled Salmon
with sauteed arugula (peppery enough before cooking to bring tears to my eyes) and black rice.
Monday, August 9, 2010
Scrambled Eggs
Buffalo Filet
with corn on the cob and okra. I made the okra following a recipe in the recent Food & Wine; I sliced it in half lengthwise, fried it in very hot oil, then seasoned with cumin, fennel seed, turmeric, and coriander. It was delicious; I'm doing it again tonight.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Hat!
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Pas de Valse
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Mosaic Knitting
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Roasted Summer Vegetables
I opened the bag from our CSA and simply chopped up and roasted everything in it: eggplant, okra, onions, red peppers, and orange cherry tomatoes. We had it with big hunks of blueberry cornbread.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Monday, July 26, 2010
Second Verse
more or less same as the first: the remainder of the field peas from last night, with fresh tomatoes and black rice added. With sauteed okra.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Whole Wheat Spaghetti
with fresh tomato sauce (pink, red, and yellow tomatoes, garlic, and basil [if I'd actually remembered to add it, which I didn't]) and sliced up red and yellow peppers.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Hash
of black rice, leftover corn, and leftover ribs, diced up. With a tomato, cucumber, red onion salad.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Now We're Getting Somewhere
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