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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Vegetarian’ Category
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 »
Carrots, Braised ‘n’ Glazed
Posted in Cheap, Home Cooking, Recipe, Tips, Vegetarian, tagged carrots, braising on September 4, 2008 | No Comments »
At my elementary school, we were often subjected to “glazed carrots,” which somehow combined the worst elements of candy and vegetables. Simultaneously tasteless and grossly sweet (even to eight year-olds), a lot of glazed carrots wound up in the dumpster behind Duncan Chapel Elementary.
Needless to say, I am wary of sweetened carrots. But, sick of [...]
New Potatoes
Posted in Cheap, Home Cooking, Recipe, Vegetarian, tagged potatoes on September 2, 2008 | No Comments »
I thought for years that “new potatoes” was just a silly name for a specific breed of potatoes. It’s not. “New potatoes” refers to any kind of freshly dug potato. Despite their image as the most seasonless of all vegetables, potatoes actually are available fresh during the summer and fall.
Fresh potatoes, which Claire used in [...]
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 Pasta and the Art of Improvisation
Posted in Home Cooking, Philosophy, Tips, Vegetarian, tagged eggplant, pasta, ratatouille on August 21, 2008 | No Comments »
I am probably much more pleased with myself for this than I deserve to be, but what is a food blog good for if not self-aggrandizement? Nothing as far as I’m concerned.
So here’s the story: I made too much ratatouille. Much too much ratatouille. My dinner guests ate ratatouille. I ate ratatouille. I ate more [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Just Can’t Get Enough: More Garlic Scapes!
Posted in Cheap, Home Cooking, Recipe, Tips, Vegetarian, tagged dip, garlic, white beans on July 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I discovered scapes a few years ago when I lived by Union Square and regularly wandered through the green market. I bought my first bunch and put them in a glass of water on a counter in our living room – I wasn’t sure what to do with them beyond contemplate their slow-twisting cues.
I [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Seaweed soup, or “It’s my party and I can eat kelp if I want to”
Posted in Breakfast, Recipe, Vegetarian, tagged soup, seaweed on July 15, 2008 | No Comments »
For early risers, the most-awkward-time-of-year must be either a) the morning of New Year’s Eve or b) the morning of one’s birthday. On other days you may go about your business—toasting your bread and buttering it, unfurling the newspaper, steeping and re-steeping tea leaves ad infinitum—but on these particular mornings the regular joys of these [...]
