Leftover salad is an unlovely thing. What was sprightly and crisp, distinct and resilient becomes soft and tired, limp and worn. If you have dressed the salad, especially, you can expect to find it the next morning in a swamp of its own juices, sodden and dispiriting. The temptation is to just compost the lot [...]
Also tagged leftovers, soupThis 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 chiles, cucumber, dog, Eggs, garlic, monday's supper, 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 chiles, cilantro, cucumbers, wednesday's supperYesterday 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 [...]
Also tagged monday's supper, porkFor 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 [...]
Also tagged bison, chard, Eggs, leafy greens, monday's supper, 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 [...]
Also tagged chiles, Friday's supper, leafy greens, 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 supperToday was hard. Our seventeen-year-old cat, Mrs. Calabash, was diagnosed with a sizeable abdominal tumor. Because she’s seventeen, and diabetic, and there’s not a whole lot to be done for her except keep her happy for as long as possible, that’s exactly what we’re doing. Fortunately she doesn’t seem to know or care that she [...]
Also tagged arugula, citrus, fish, fruit, leafy greens, pickles, wednesday's supperMixed green salad of mesclun, ox-heart beet leaves, arugula, and indigo frisee endive, with Hollyhock dressing, plus a bowl of radish kimchi. What can I say, I’m busy tonight and more to the point, it’s what I was craving. I might have some almonds later, or a bowl of muesli and soy milk, if I [...]
Also tagged monday's supper, picklesI’ve been running errands and doing chores since I finished the chapter section I needed to finish today (my equivalent of getting off work) and frankly, my multitasking is not good enough to clean the bathroom, do my laundry, reorganize a supply cabinet, and clean the cat boxes whilst also cooking dinner. The Belovedary, sadly, [...]
Also tagged leafy greens, wednesday's supper