Last night’s dinner put an additional dent in my reserve of olive oil (currently five different kinds), tahini, and herbs, and completely used up the basmati rice. It also made excellent use of Sunday morning’s farmers market haul.
Pattypan squash, white eggplant and long peppers were tossed with olive oil, garlic paste, salt and herbs [...]
Posts Tagged ‘garlic’
Further Adventures in Pantry-Clearing
Posted in Main Courses, Side Dishes, Uncategorized, tagged eggplant, garlic, sesame, squash, yogurt on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Naked Pizza
Posted in Main Courses, tagged garlic, olive oil, onions, pizza on June 25, 2006 | 4 Comments »
After half a lifetime spent piling as much onto a pizza as the laws of physics will permit, I have finally come to the conclusion that the Italians have it right after all, and that the ridiculous excess of American pizza is really an insult to the basic form. Pizza, in order to be any [...]
Another Legitimate Thirty Minute Meal: Southwestern Lentil Salad
Posted in Legitimate Thirty-Minute Meals, tagged avocado, garlic, lentils, olive oil, salad, tomatoes on April 6, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Since I’m trying to get back into the swing of cooking, despite still not having as much time for it as I’d like, tonight’s experimental dinner was particularly gratifying. When I got home, all I had decided was that I wanted to do something with lentils, but by the time I was finished adding [...]
I’ll Give You a Thirty-Minute Meal
Posted in Legitimate Thirty-Minute Meals, tagged garlic, greens, olive oil, pasta on August 31, 2005 | 8 Comments »
This is what a genuine thirty-minute meal looks like.
Dinner at the Disdain manse this evening was a colorful, healthy, economical, and realistic dish of whole wheat pasta with chard and toasted pine nuts, prepared in twenty-nine minutes and change. It did not involve any wacky uses of convenience foods, nominal dressing-up of prepared items, juggling [...]
The Zen of Aglio Olio
Posted in Legitimate Thirty-Minute Meals, tagged garlic, olive oil, pasta on March 16, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Perhaps it’s my Italian blood, or perhaps it’s just the carbs, but there’s something wonderfully calming about the ritual of preparing and eating a plate of spaghetti aglio olio (spaghetti with garlic and olive oil). It’s so easy to prepare that it’s my standard mid-week I-can’t-deal-with-cooking dinner of choice, but I still never get [...]
