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 ‘squash’
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 »
Squashes
Posted in Cheap, Home Cooking, Recipe, Vegetarian, tagged squash on July 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Many people think of squash as a winter vegetable, or at least I do. But summer squashes - the best known of which is zucchini - are a terrific vegetable that bear little resemblance in taste to their hearty winter cousins.
Summer squash is quick and easy to prepare, but unlike many vegetables, it is actually [...]
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 [...]
Semi-Homemade: Tomato Sauce
Posted in Home Cooking, Quick, Tips, tagged pasta, shrimp, squash, tomato sauce, tomatoes on April 13, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Last night, I had a immense craving for capellini (angel hair pasta, for the lay-pasta-people in the audience) with tomato sauce and shrimp. I wanted to make it myself, but I also didn’t want to spend a lot of time doing it. And so, dear reader, while one day in the near future I am [...]
