As Claire pointed out to me yesterday, we’ve been on a pretty salad-focused kick here at Food Junta, a lot of said salads involving tomatoes, corn, warming, or some combination thereof. But this salad was so good, I had to share it. Repetitiveness be damned.
Though I’m pretty sure this is a common-ish dish out there [...]
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Warm Corn Salad with Sungold Tomatoes and Red Onion
Posted in Cheap, Home Cooking, Quick, Recipe, Tips, Vegetarian, tagged tomatoes, red onion, salad, corn on August 28, 2008 | No Comments »
The Ultimate B.L.T. (and A & E)
Posted in Cheap, Home Cooking, Quick, Raves, Recipe, tagged avocadoes, bacon, eggs, lettuce, sandwiches, tomatoes on August 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This may be the most brilliant thing I’ve ever made. And one of the easiest. And now that I know how brilliant and easy it is, one of the most destructive, as I will now be eating it on a really regular basis, and it might be best saved as an occasional treat. But no [...]
Panzanella (Italian Bread and Tomato Salad)
Posted in Home Cooking, Quick, Recipe, Vegetarian, tagged Italian, salad, stale bread, tomatoes on August 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One good tomato salad deserves another. Claire wrote about the Caprese salad yesterday, and today I move northward in Italy to bring you Panzanella.
Panzanella might be one of my favorite foods of all time. Simple to prepare, beautiful, seasonal, and delicious. And it’s great summertime fare because you don’t have to turn on the oven. [...]
Olympics Special: Insalata Caprese
Posted in Home Cooking, Quick, Raves, Recipe, Vegetarian, tagged basil, coolio, mozzarella, tomatoes on August 11, 2008 | No Comments »
In honor of the Olympics opening ceremony, a friend of the Junta proposed an innovative party idea: a potluck dinner party for which each guest brings an international dish of some sort. I was super-excited for the party, of course, but I was also tired and jet-lagged and generally unprepared to make anything particularly elaborate. [...]
Semi-Homemade: Soup
Posted in Cheap, Home Cooking, Quick, Raves, Tips, tagged soup on July 31, 2008 | No Comments »
I don’t even know if this counts as semi-homemade, but I make “semi-homemade” soup all the time, so it seemed worth sharing with the world. What is semi-homemade soup? It is soup that would be plain and boring if just heated up out of the carton, but is instead delicious and wonderful because you’ve added [...]
Cuban-Style Mango Salad
Posted in Cheap, Home Cooking, Quick, Recipe, Tips, Vegetarian, tagged mango, onion, salad on July 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Fruit in salad is usually one of my bigger food no-no’s. Not as big of a no-no as fruit and chocolate mixed together; a bigger no-no than, well, a lot of other things. There are exceptions, of course, to every rule. I love Cadbury fruit and nut bars, for one. And I don’t mind pears [...]
Chok boy!
Posted in Cheap, Home Cooking, Quick, Recipe, Tips, Vegetarian, tagged bok choy on July 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Bok choy is delicious. Don’t try to tell me otherwise. My first encounter with this Chinese vegetable left me thinking that I hated it, but this turns out to be because the bok choy that was served to me had been boiled for about a week and a half and the clearly depressed individual [...]
Fiesta for one? Holy Guacamole!
Posted in Home Cooking, Philosophy, Quick, Raves, Recipe, Tips, Vegetarian, tagged avocados, guacamole on July 17, 2008 | 5 Comments »
This post is about two things I really enjoy: eating alone and guacamole. So…the best of both worlds, logically, would be eating guacamole alone. Yet, guacamole seems like a social dish; you have it at parties, with margaritas, at the beach. It is not time-consuming to make, and yet, I like to chat with someone [...]
Garlic Scapes!
Posted in Home Cooking, Quick, Tips, Vegetarian, tagged chard, tomatoes, goat cheese, garlic scapes, sandwich on July 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
These are curious creatures, these garlic scapes. As you can see from the photo above, they look a bit extraterrestrial. But they are related to the garlic we all know and love, just ever so much more subtle and tender. After garlic has been growing a little bit underground, a shoot will poke through the [...]
Spring Supper Part 2: Salad Days
Posted in Cheap, Home Cooking, Quick, Recipe, Tips, Vegetarian, tagged mustard, salad, salad dressing on June 9, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Lettuce is available year-round from greenhouses (and from Mexico), but this is the season when the variety and quality at the market increases exponentially. A big salad is a great and easy way to round out a meal for company, and I’ve got a dirty secret to share about dressing.
Well, not that dirty.
First, let me [...]
Semi-Homemade: Couscous
Posted in Cheap, Home Cooking, Quick, Tips, Vegetarian, tagged couscous, sauté, yogurt on June 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So, semi-homemade strikes again, this time with couscous. What is couscous? Anyone who has ever been to a Middle Eastern restaurant is probably vaguely familiar with it, but you may not know that it is actually pasta (not rice, or grain, as one might suspect). Cooking raw couscous (is raw the right word here?) is [...]
The glory begins… with mushrooms en papillote.
Posted in Home Cooking, Quick, Recipe, Tips, Vegetarian, tagged glory, mushrooms on May 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Ok, maybe not that glorious, but I’ll take what I can get. Food Junta has just secured our first honor for the narrative recipe I submitted to a contest on Marx Foods, a gourmet ingredient purveyor. While I didn’t win the contest (or the two pounds of fresh morels that were first prize), I was [...]
Berkeley: Meyer Lemons Galore! (And homemade mayonnaise)
Posted in Dessert, Home Cooking, Quick, Raves, Recipe, Tips, tagged aioli, curd, mayonnaise, meyer lemons on May 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
After Portland, I went home to Berkeley, food paradise, and also paradise of the elusive citrus known as the Meyer lemon. I don’t know how well known meyer lemons are on the east coast, but on the west coast, they are ubiquitous, and I mean ubiquitous in the best way. Meyers are rounder than your [...]
About them beans…
Posted in Cheap, Home Cooking, Quick, Vegetarian, tagged green beans on May 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I promised yesterday that I would post about the green beans in the picture below. So here it is:
This is a technique that works with pretty much any green vegetable, but is especially good with green beans and their cousins and any kind of leafy green: Boil some water, enough to add the veggie to [...]
Eggs de la Vera
Posted in Cheap, Home Cooking, Quick, Raves, tagged eggs, pimenton on May 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Any scruffy young bachelor who can’t make scrambled eggs deserves a few good slaps about the head with a rubber spatula. They don’t have to be GOOD scrambled eggs, but everyone should be able to throw beaten eggs into a pan with a little hot fat and stir them until they’re cooked through. Scrambled eggs [...]
