I’ve been meaning to write about this delicious dessert for a while, and Kevin’s post yesterday about his discovery of the beauty of peaches is a good segue. A good friend of the Junta made this when I was in San Francisco, with glorious peaches, and glorious figs. But they were made all the more [...]
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Another Peach Post: Roasted Peaches with Figs and Honey
Posted in Dessert, Home Cooking, Raves, Recipe, Tips, tagged peaches, figs on August 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
My Prize-Winning Margarita Pie
Posted in Dessert, Home Cooking, Raves, Recipe, Vegetarian, tagged limes, pie, tequila, triple sec, whipped cream on August 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
With this post, readers, I introduce to you the concept of a “concept pie.” Yes, much like the concept album, but this time ensconced in a delicious, buttery crust.
This particular pie came about at the previously mentioned Olympics party, during which I was — in the same conversation — discussing jello shots and invited to [...]
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. [...]
Anything you can freeze, I can freeze better
Posted in Raves, Tips, tagged leftovers, freezer, frozen food, dumplings, peas, coffee, bread on August 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
(Not my freezer.)
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As keen as I am on fresh produce, you might thing that I eschew the use of a freezer, but au contraire, my friends. Au con-fucking-traire.
While I might frown on anyone whose idea of a good meal is one of those plastic trays of beef stroganoff with the amorphous “brownie,” I love my [...]
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 [...]
Favorite Technique: Toasting Nuts
Posted in Philosophy, Raves, Tips, tagged nuts, pine nuts on July 29, 2008 | No Comments »
I really believe that there are a couple very simple things you can do to make your food seem startlingly more sophisticated. Not to make you a better cook, per se, but I also strongly believe that paying attention to what you’re cooking — to how it looks, to texture, to flavor balance — is [...]
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 [...]
Ko my!
Posted in Raves, Restaurant Reviews on May 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Food Junta got the much-talked-about, much-lusted-after pleasure of eating at Momofuku Ko on Monday night, thanks to our very own Brandon, whose clicking dexterity secured us a four-person reservation at 6 pm. Go Brandon! For those of you who don’t know the trials and tribulations involved in getting a reservation at Ko, you can read [...]
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 [...]
Food Junta Hits the Road: Portland
Posted in Cheap, Home Cooking, Raves, Recipe, Tips, Vegetarian, tagged beets, goat cheese, greens, lentils, Portland on May 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So, before going home, I actually made a weekend stopover in Portland, Oregon, both to visit a friend and to check out the restaurant/farm/local food scene I have been hearing so much about for the last couple of years. The city — filled with microbreweries and food co-ops — did not disappoint, and the farmers’ [...]
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 [...]
And another roast chicken…
Posted in Home Cooking, Raves, Recipe, tagged chicken, coriander, marmalade, orange, red onion on April 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Another dinner party, another roast chicken. I don’t actually have that much more to say about this one, amazingly, other than that the original recipe comes from the magazine Real Simple, which the middle-aged woman in me just adores. Try the chicken (which literally takes 10 minutes or less of active time to produce true [...]
Matzah/Matzoh/Matzo Crunch
Posted in Dessert, Raves, Recipe, tagged caramel, chocolate, matzoh, salt on April 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Happy Passover, everybody! So, we once again celebrate the Jews’ continued survival with a week of not eating leavened products. For the way most people — and food magazines and newspaper columns — go on, you’d think this was a greater hardship than the Jews’ slavery in Egypt and subsequent 40 years of wandering through [...]
Mealy Tomatoes? Roast ‘em.
Posted in Cheap, Home Cooking, Quick, Raves, Recipe, Tips, Vegetarian, tagged tomatoes on March 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Mealy tomatoes are maybe the most disgusting things I can think of, food-wise, competing only with mealy apples. You should keep tomatoes out of the fridge until you cut them, which will keep them from going mealy as fast. But, however you keep them, tomatoes are going to get mealy after a week or so. [...]
