This recipe will knock your socks off and clear your sinuses out! It requires a couple of special ingredients, but once you have them you can make this all the time. No need for a trip to Tea House when you can make Ma Po Tofu at home! You can see the chili black bean […]
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Middle Eastern Vegetable Ragout
Melanie got this recipe from an Arabic cookbook, and upon testing, results indicated delicious. We ate it with flatbread, but it’d be good on rice as well. I’ve translated it from the cookbook.: Ingredients3 Tbsp Olive Oil1 Onion, cut into slivers2 cloves crushed garlic4 small zucchini, cut into circles (remember these are theoretically the lighter […]
Butternut Squash Gnocchi with Brown Butter and Sage
This recipe was sort of implied in our previous gnocchi post, but I thought I’d post it as a stand-alone recipe because it’s just so darn good. The time consuming part is making the gnocchi, but once that’s done with the rest goes quickly. If you want to freeze some for future use (which you […]
Simmered Kabocha Squash
I got this wonderfully simple recipe from the Kitazawa Seed Co. catalog, though mom says she used to make it all the time, which must be why it tastes so comfortingly familiar. I like to make it when I’m feeling under the weather, but in general it’s a useful and colorful side-dish, especially for Japanese-style […]
Fasuliya – Green Bean Stew
If you’re anything like me, you have more green beans than you can deal with right now. Even if you don’t, this is an easy and versatile dish that can either be a vegetarian side-dish or a meaty main entree. You can even use frozen green beans, so this would be a welcome taste of […]
Fried Tofu with Indonesian Sauce
This recipe is great for when you want something really nice and simple, especially in hot weather. It’s adapted from the “Sundays at the Moosewood” cookbook, where it’s called Tauhu Goreng Kechap. The sauce is definitely more than the sum of its parts – I really like it. Sauce:2/3 light soy sauce3-4 cloves garlic2 Tbsp […]
Basic Corn Chowder
You know it’s late summer when you’ve had sweet corn with 9/10 of your past meals. If you’re anything like me, you wind up with leftover ears, either cooked or raw, that you weren’t able to get to before you started on the next batch. This phenomenon coincides nicely with the arrival of cooler weather–all […]
Moroccan Beet Salad
So this is actually a ridiculously simple beet salad, but I got it from my friend Melanie who just got back from Morocco. Apparently she knows at least two other recipes for beet salad, but this is her favorite: 4 small-medium sized beets1/2-3/4 cup beet juice(produced by boiling the beets)juice of one lemon2-4 Tbsp sugar […]
Turmeric ‘Taters
Here’s an easy and colorful potato side dish that uses the cheerful but under-appreciated turmeric. I’ve only made it in the pressure cooker, but it will probably work in a regular pot if you simmer it carefully. Only use enough potatoes that they will cover the bottom of your pan in a single layer. They […]
Pad Thai
This is the 100th post on the blog! Good work, family–I think we’ve created something wonderful here. Keep on postin’! Now that I’m writing this 100th post, I feel like I should commemorate it with some kind of special recipe, but this is just what I made for dinner tonight. In the end I guess […]