This was super tasty, and composed spontaneously from Stuff We Had Around. If you were going to do it on purpose, you could do it something like this: Stuff (aka ingredients): A bunch of collard greens Some fresh basil 8 ounces of sliced turkey (I bet it would work great with tofu or tempeh if [...]
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1. Stare glumly into refrigerator, which contains condiments, cat food, soy milk, and half a can of tomato paste. 2. Contemplate going out for dinner. 3. But then I’d have to go somewhere. 4. Stare glumly into the freezer. Oh hey, there’s frozen chicken. 5. Can I actually manage to defrost some chicken? 6. … [...]
In case you were wondering: If you have made an assay at banana frosting, but have managed to use a disproportionate amount of bananas and butter in relation to the amount of powdered sugar in the house, resulting in a texture not remotely similar to frosting, if you: Add flour, baking soda, and spices of [...]
Turkey Bacon and Chard with Dijon Vinaigrette Totally based on a Mark Bittman recipe from How To Cook Everything; his is for dandelion greens and regular bacon, which I am sure would also be delicious. And I bet you could use veggie bacon or that sort of bacony kind of tempeh to good effect, too. [...]
Last year at this time, I invented a new measurement to express how far one’s Thanksgiving diverges from the media ideal. This year, our holiday is also nontraditional. The menu: lamb stew and tabbouleh. The tabbouleh is from the Nile Spice box, with some fresh mint added. I found a lamb stew recipe on the [...]
1. We are hosting a cool cartoonist for the next few months. Since she’s been staying with us, we have cooked at home more than we have in an embarrassingly long time. Yay for the good influence of houseguests! 2. SF! I think I’m going to WonderCon. I don’t have the tickets yet but I [...]
…that is more of an assemblage. Most of my “cooking” involves the combining of prepackaged items. Seitan Soup with Orzo And Whatever Else Is Around, aka Sara’s comfort food standby 1 package White Wave chicken-style seitan 1 quart broth of some variety As many minced cloves of garlic as seem delicious Olive oil for sauteeing [...]
Here is a recently-improvised smoothie recipe that incidentally makes it possible to stay up much later watching DVDs of Deadwood: frozen strawberries frozen bananas a small package of chocolate pudding mix (I use the fat & sugar free kind) a splash of vanilla soy milk a dollop of plain nonfat yogurt two shots of espresso [...]
Suffering post-con crud, though the con itself was utterly delightful. (I will try to get an actual con-reporty post together soon.) As a result I had zero motivation to expend any effort in food preparation. Hence: 1 lb. firm or extra firm tofu soy sauce ground ginger Annie’s Naturals Goddess Dressing maybe some water if [...]
