101 Simple Meals
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Monday, April 28th, 2008As I write this, I am printing out a fresh copy of Mark Bittman’s article, Summer Express: 101 Simple Meals Ready in 10 Minutes or Less.
A reminder of what I cooked last summer: http://gezellig-girl.com/category/101-simple-meals
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101 Simple Meals: The end?
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007At this point, I’ve been making these meals for so long now, I’ve sort of forgotten how to live any other way. I’m about to make a grocery list and once I jotted down staples we’ve run out of (sugar, milk) and things I’d like to have (olives, oatmeal), I picked up my battered, stained […]
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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