I’m dining alone tonight, my Belovedary down at Camden Yards watching the Orioles lose. It’s a nice night for it. Dining alone can be a challenge. Even I sometimes get tempted not to bother cooking if it’s just me, especially when I am, as I am tonight, working late on a deadline. I try, though, [...]
Also tagged eating alone, Eggs, Friday's supper, garlic, home cooking, squashDoubtless 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 [...]
Also tagged black beans, cabbage, celery, chives, Friday's supper, garlic, pickles, pork, tofuGearing 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 chiles, Friday's supper, leafy greens, salads, stir-fry, tempehOh, look, she’s eating something that’s not a salad. In addition to the thing that is a salad, anyway. The unlovely lumpen mass in the bowl on the left is what we around my house call a mess of beans. It is, you will doubtless concur, aptly named. A mess of beans can be cooked [...]
Also tagged beans, Friday's supper, saladsOne 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, chiles, Friday's supper, leafy greens, pork, stir-fry, tofuThe theme for this evening’s cookery turned out to be Dishes That Require Four Ingredients. I didn’t plan it this way, it just turned out like that. Still, it’s nice to have simple good things up your sleeve, isn’t it? For my actual supper, I was jonesing for greens so I ate a huge bowl [...]
Also tagged citrus, desserts, Friday's supper, greens, kale, leafy greens, lemon