This is one of those dinners that is not for the kind of person who is afraid of mixing things on the plate. I caramelized zucchini in a tablespoon of olive oil with whole cloves of garlic — a medium heat, with infrequent stirring and a good stout pan, will get it done in a [...]
Also tagged cucumber, dog, Eggs, garlic, monday's supper, pickles, saladsA couple folks have asked, so here’s the approximate method for DIY salt-fermented chiles. You need about a pound of chiles of your desired degree of hottitude. Wash them, remove the stems, and chop them coarsely. I often bung them in the food processor and whir them until they are mostly coarsely chopped with a [...]
Also tagged picklesThis is a dish that falls squarely into the category that my friend Jeannette calls dolce far niente cooking. Perfect for hot weather, it is light and cooling but has strong, invigorating flavor. And, as the dolce far niente thing implies, it requires hardly any effort. You’ll want a couple-few cucumbers, a healthy-sized bunch of [...]
Also tagged cilantro, cucumbers, salads, wednesday's supperGearing 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 [...]
Also tagged Friday's supper, leafy greens, salads, stir-fry, tempehOne of the reasons I get so fed up with omnivores who trash-talk vegetarianism is that they frequently act as if tofu were a a sort of anti-matter where meat is concerned–or perhaps the Bad Kirk to meat’s Good Kirk–in addition to being a slow-acting poison that turns red-blooded American he-men into chinless girly-men with [...]
Also tagged bacon, Friday's supper, leafy greens, pork, stir-fry, tofuWe like chiles around here. We don’t actually like heat for heat’s sake, and couldn’t begin to give one tiny little mouse dropping for the whole “anything you can eat I can eat hotter” routine. But we do like chiles. We feel similarly about ginger and garlic. I find, in fact, that if I don’t [...]
Also tagged green beans, leafy greens, stir-fry, tofu, wednesday's supper