Back to blogging about the food we ate at our seder last Sunday. The main course was a Brazilian Holiday Fish recipe from the New York Times. I made 2 lbs of fish fillets–mostly mahi mahi, with a little snapper thrown in–for 8 people and had enough for a serving + of leftover, so the [...]
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Seder Fish
Posted in Main dishes, tagged Passover, seder on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Passover
Posted in Dessert, Main dishes, Side Dishes, tagged Passover on April 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Jewish holiday of Passover begins at sundown on Saturday. Jews in America typically celebrate with two seders, one each of the first two nights of the eight-day holiday. The seder is an elaborate and lengthy meal accompanied by a special prayer book, the Haggadah, that contains prayers, blessings and readings associated with the ritual [...]
Rice!
Posted in Main dishes, Side Dishes on April 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
My roommate recently departed for a job in Liberia, bequeathing me his collection of various kinds of rice. My new roommate moved in this week, so I’ve been reshuffling the pantry and contemplating how I’m going to eat all that rice in the next two months. I’m heading out of town in late May for [...]
Crustless Quiche
Posted in Food News, Main dishes on March 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Black Beans with Black Rice
Posted in Main dishes, tagged Beans, Madison, McGee, vegetarian on February 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I love beans. I cook a lot with beans, but when cooking for myself, I usually cook with a single can. Yesterday, I decided to experiment with cooking black beans from dried beans. It wasn’t very hard (about an hour of cooking, with 5 minutes of onion-slicing and bean-rinsing prep), but it did make [...]
