As the proud owner of a part of a CSA share — and thus the owner of 2 lbs of summer squash every week for the last month and a half –- my recent discovery of the “Recipes for Health” series in the New York Times’ Health section has been a real boon. Operating on [...]
Posts Tagged ‘eggs’
Pisto de La Mancha or: How I learned to deal with two pounds of summer squash
Posted in Home Cooking, Recipe, Vegetarian, tagged tomatoes, squash, eggs, zucchini on September 5, 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 [...]
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 [...]
Carbonara, of a sort
Posted in Home Cooking, Recipe, tagged bacon, cheese, eggs, pasta, sage, squash, tomato on May 7, 2008 | No Comments »
This is an original Food Junta recipe, with no inspiration from anywhere other than my own imagination. Carbonara is typically pasta — usually spaghetti — with eggs, cheese, pork, and black pepper. You add the raw eggs directly to the pasta after it’s done cooking, and the heat of the pasta cooks the egg and [...]
Mat-zoh/zah/za Brei/Brie
Posted in Breakfast, Cheap, Home Cooking, Quick, Recipe, tagged eggs, matzoh on April 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Will the transliteration confusion never stop? No, it won’t, and apparently Passover will never end. This morning, tired of plain matzoh grabbed on the run to work, I took the time to make a matzoh-centric brunch of matzoh brei, southwestern style, by which I mean served with avocado and salsa. This is a really easy [...]
