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 ‘tomatoes’
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 »
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 »
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 [...]
Ratatouille - Not Just For Cartoon Rodents Anymore
Posted in Home Cooking, Recipe, Vegetarian, tagged bell peppers, eggplant, entertaining, tomatoes on August 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Ratatouille (or Tian of Vegetables, as it is also known) is the very fancy-sounding name for a very rustic Provencal dish. It is, in essence, a bunch of summer vegetables stewed together in the oven.
Ratatouille is a great dish for entertaining because it can be prepared ahead of time in vast quantities and simply slapped [...]
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. [...]
An Old Standby, With a Roasted Twist
Posted in Cheap, Home Cooking, Recipe, Vegetarian, tagged pasta, tomatoes on July 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Summer and the fresh produce it brings to the market means a wide range of new possibilities in the kitchen, but even when there’s so much to choose from - and sometimes especially when it’s so hot - we all can get lazy. And when I get lazy, I cook pasta. Usually pasta with tomato [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
