The New York Times’ Dining In section today featured a few articles on eating cheaply, including this one, in which the author eats for a week from the $0.99 store. The author delights in his discovery that to eat cheaply, one must eat what is available. Shock and awe!!! The notion that eating should revolve [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Crustless Quiche
Posted in Food News, Main dishes on March 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
How to Peel and Slice Garlic
Posted in Ingredients on March 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The folks at Chef’s Illustrated have a nice (short) video feature on the proper technique for peeling and slicing garlic: here. Giving garlic a good whack with a chef’s knife is the best way to slide it easily out of its skin and prepare it for dicing, mashing or garlic-pressing. I don’t have a garlic [...]
Chocolate Bread Pudding
Posted in Dessert, tagged bread, chocolate, mom on March 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It’s been a windfall week for free food at school, which has let me study for midsems without doing a whole lot in the way of cooking. But, I’ve been completely unable to stop thinking about chocolate bread pudding since I baked bread the other week, so I whipped up a batch last night. With [...]
Breakfast: Oatmeal
Posted in Breakfast on March 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m down on little packets of oatmeal. The reason they only take a minute to cook in the microwave is that all the good fiber and nutrients which make you feel full and slow digestion have been removed from the instant stuff. Plain rolled oats bought in bulk are great as a staple in cooking, [...]
Annie’s Bean Burgers
Posted in Lunch, Main dishes, tagged Beans, veggie burgers on March 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This recipe is from my friend, Annie, who adapted a recipe for meatloaf into a recipe for veggie burgers. She calls for black beans, but I didn’t have any on hand, so I used a can of navy beans. My guess is that any kind of bean will work (perhaps a good venue for leftover [...]
News Round-up
Posted in Food News, tagged Recycle on March 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I hadn’t planned on blogging about food news, but this week, four articles caught my eye. All are related to food, but on a scale slightly larger than the kitchen.
First, Michael Specter’s piece in the New Yorker, “Big Foot“. Specter starts with the British grocery store chain, Tesco and its desire to label products [...]
White Bread
Posted in Baking, Cookbooks, tagged bread, Madison on March 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Unless you’re making it in large quantities with bulk ingredients in a bread maker, baking your own bread doesn’t save you much in the way of time or money. But it does smell really good, taste wonderful and make great toast. My friend Katy has a blog about her adventures living in Australia, ihatetoast.blogspot.com, but [...]
Goodwill: baking pans and assorted doodads
Posted in Kitchen Equipment, tagged Goodwill, Recycle on March 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I live near what is rumored to be the best Goodwill on the planet. I like the housewares section for CHEAP kitchen doodads. Yesterday’s success: two circular baking pans ($1.99 together), 2 small Pirex glass bowls ($1.20 together), a potato masher ($0.75) and two airtight glass jars ($3 together). A rousing success at just over [...]
