Archive for August, 2007
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007If you know me in real life, you already know I’m kind of an eco-nerd, and although this is a food blog, I was thinking of starting a Green is Gezellig category of posts — just some posts now and then on things I do around the kitchen (and sometimes elsewhere around the house) to […]
101 Simple Meals: #96
Thursday, August 30th, 2007Description: “A Roman classic: In lots of olive oil, lightly cook lots of slivered garlic, with six or so anchovy fillets and a dried hot chili or two. Dress pasta with this.”
Notes: I had more than six fillets from the tin I opened earlier in the week, and I was wary of putting them all […]
101 Simple Meals: #23
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007Description: “The New York supper: Bagels, cream cheese, smoked salmon. Serve with tomatoes, watercress or arugula, and sliced red onion or shallot.”
Notes: I think I’m a bagel prude. I like my (never raisin and never ever blueberry) bagel with cream cheese and, if I’m feeling especially sassy, maybe tomato. So, I stuck with the basics […]
101 Simple Meals: #81
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007Description: “Combine crab meat with mayo, Dijon mustard, chives and tarragon. Serve in a sandwich, with potato chips.”
Notes: My first instinct is always to say “oh, I don’t like crab” but once I think about it, I realize I’ve only had imitation crab.
Well, this was canned crab — and I don’t like that either. […]
101 Simple Meals: #74 (kind of)
Monday, August 20th, 2007Description: “Canned sardines packed in olive oil on Triscuits, with mustard and Tabasco.”
Notes: Yeah, that’s clearly an anchovy and not a sardine, isn’t it? I didn’t actually, oh, look at the list until I sat down to write this entry.
That being said, before trying this, I’d never actually eaten an anchovy before. It was… pretty […]
101 Simple Meals: #61
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007Description: “Poach shrimp and plunge into ice water. Serve with cocktail sauce: one cup ketchup, one tablespoon vinegar, three tablespoons melted butter and lots of horseradish.”
Notes: Okay, I draw the line at calling this a “substantial main course” as mentioned in the introduction to this article. It’s shrimp cocktail. It’s not a meal. On it’s […]
101 Simple Meals: #29
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007Description: “Chop prosciutto and crisp it in a skillet with olive oil; add chopped not-too-ripe figs. Serve over greens dressed with oil and vinegar; top all with crumbled blue cheese.”
Notes: At last! Here’s how I used those figs. I threw this together fairly late one night when we realized we hadn’t eaten dinner yet because […]
101 Simple Meals: #45
Friday, August 10th, 2007Description: “Sauté shredded zucchini in olive oil, adding garlic and chopped herbs. Serve over pasta.”
Notes: I want to like zucchini. Really, I do.
I made this in the hopes I would come around on zucchini.
I did not.
The bland zucchini overwhelmed the garlic and herbs (and even the lemon and Parmesan cheese I added […]
Son of a bitch
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007Goddamn Mark Bittman tacking 10 more recipes onto the 101 Simple Meals article!
[shakes angry fist at sky]
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101 Simple Meals: #15
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007Description: “Call it panini: Grilled cheese with prosciutto, tomatoes, thyme or basil leaves.”
Notes: Dude. It’s grilled cheese.
Rating: Good. Duh.
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