Pazi dolmasi is Turkish stuffed chard. Normally you’d make it with very large chard leaves, and stuff them with a meat or rice filling much as you would if you were making stuffed grape leaves. Then they’d be baked, probably with a bit of tomatoey or lemony sauce to keep things moist. The chard leaves [...]
Tagged bison, chard, Garden, home cooking, leafy greens, monday's supperTo serve one very hungry person or two less-hungry people (perhaps with the addition of some other dish), prepare the following as mise-en-place: about a cup of cold leftover rice, broken up with a fork about a cup to a cup and a half of kimchi, very well drained, and cut into reasonably uniform bite-size [...]
Tagged cabbage, Eggs, kimchi, rice, stir-fryYesterday being a holiday, it skipped my mind completely that it was also a Monday. Thus I forgot to take any sort of photo of Monday’s Supper until, er, well… Tuesday. A little late. I did eat supper. More or less the same as this. A couple more kinds of greens, a slighty different bit [...]
Tagged monday's supper, pork, saladsDoubtless you are all too upstanding to know where the phrase “stems and seeds” comes from. Suffice to say that it means to be scraping the bottom of one’s, er, stash. Of comestibles, that is. Bare-larder syndrome. Lots of wide open spaces in the fridge. You get the idea. But a lot of good things [...]
Tagged black beans, cabbage, celery, chives, Friday's supper, garlic, pickles, pork, tofuI fervently believe that someday researchers will discover that brassica-family vegetables are a natural antidepressant. They work for me, anyway. Vegan “beef” (pressed, salted tofu) and broccoli with garlic “oyster” sauce (mushroom-based) for dinner tonight as a saving throw against a day made of grumpy. Coupled with sesame cabbage, using up the last of a [...]
Tagged broccoli, cabbage, home cooking, tofu, vegan, wednesday's supperThe shrimp at the Asian supermarket this morning were nice, and the price was good, so I bought some. I had been hoping for mussels, but the mussels were not happy. So shrimp it was, a foundation for what ended up being a shrimp-centric meal. I shelled the shrimp and stir-fried them, in a riff [...]
Tagged ginger, greens, pickles, pork, scallions, shrimp, soupFor those of you who are still unconvinced that delicious, home-cooked dinners with local ingredients are out of your reach due to time constraints, let me just tell you that our dinner tonight took me a grand total of 15 minutes start to finish to prepare. And that includes the time it took to go [...]
Tagged bison, chard, Eggs, leafy greens, monday's supper, salads, sausageGearing up for Sunday’s strawberry brunch, so dinner tonight was a bit of an afterthought. Still, even an afterthought can be well-thought. Soy tempeh, cubed, fried, seasoned with Chinese black beans and chile paste and a little soy sauce, over a bowl of fresh spinach. It was fab. Right now I’m waiting for my batch [...]
Tagged chiles, Friday's supper, leafy greens, salads, stir-fry, tempehI do love me some green beans. I love them so much I eat them out of season, which I don’t do with most high-summer vegetables for the simple reason that I know full well they just won’t ever be as good as the ones you get when it’s high summer and the vines are [...]
Tagged cabbage, green beans, leafy greens, stir-fry, tofu, wednesday's supperI wanted protein, and I got it. Smoked tofu, crisped up by stir-frying it in smoking hot oil, then stir-fried with broccoli and seasoned with black bean-chili sauce. We ate every scrap. One of our standbys, eggs with chives. I had a bunch of leftover egg whites to use up, so I made this with [...]
Tagged black beans, broccoli, chives, Eggs, home cooking, monday's supper, stir-fry, tofu