It’s that time of the year again, in more ways than one. Early fall seems to be my usual time for disappearing and/or reappearing here, since it’s my usual time for starting new things, like degree programs, jobs, household projects, not to mention finally making an honest man out of His Lordship. It’s also [...]
Posts Tagged ‘olive oil’
We Now Return You to Your Regularly-Scheduled Programming
Posted in Celebrations, Desserts, Sunday Night Baking, tagged apricot, cake, figs, honey, olive oil, yogurt on October 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Barbecue or Bust
Posted in Condiments, Main Courses, Side Dishes, tagged olive oil, salad, tofu on August 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It being summer, I’ve been nursing a barbecue craving. Although we’re city-bound and can’t actually barbecue anything, I could do the next best thing: tofu glazed with a spicy, sweet, sticky, chile-filled barbecue sauce. On the side, I felt like a non-creamy slaw of shredded cabbage and red peppers.
This cookbook-packing thing is really starting to [...]
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: Roasted Asparagus Salad
Posted in Legitimate Thirty-Minute Meals, tagged asparagus, cheese, greens, honey, olive oil, radishes, salad on May 7, 2006 | 4 Comments »
In my ongoing valiant quest to present legitimately quick, easy, delicious and nutritious meals, here is what His Lordship and I had for dinner last night, courtesy of our Saturday trip to the farmer’s market, where the signs of spring are truly undeniable, as evidenced by the asparagus, radishes, baby greens, scallions, rhubarb, early tomatoes [...]
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 [...]
