Archive for October, 2010
Hakuna Frittata
You don’t remember this song from The Lion King? Really? It means no worries about serving eggs for dinner yet again. They’re inexpensive and easy and nutritious. It also means just because you’re running your kids’ school fundraising auction doesn’t mean you can order a pizza 10 nights in a row so get to cracking some eggs into [...]
Rhubarb Crumb Bars
We had my favorite kind of weekend–what is known around here as “a real weekendy weekend.” Somehow there was time enough for absolute lolling–late breakfasts, pajama-clad board games (Settlers of Catan is our new favorite), lackadaisical gardening (the kind where I pull weeds one-handed because I don’t want to set down my beer), the pleasantly [...]
Finger-licking Ribs
Yes, I am the kind of person who plies you with eggs and hummus for weeks on end in my cheap, de-facto vegetarian way, and then throws you this pricey, carnivorous curve ball. That’s how it is for me in the duck-duck-goose of dinner preparations. Sometimes the fact of an early June Friday evening with [...]
Donut Cake
Maybe it’s really just frosting I don’t like, which is nuts. Even a frosting-shunner like me can see how crazy that is. Frosting! Who doesn’t like frosting but a grayly parched crone in a gloomy, turreted house, the one who gives neighbor kids the evil eye while she’s outside calling to her dozens of many-toed [...]
Best Buttermilk Dressing
When it comes to salad dressing, the world really splits into people who have worked food service jobs and people who haven’t. So, for example, if you have ever scrubbed dishes in a restaurant kitchen or prepped for the dinner rush work or balanced a dozen salads on a tray in a crowded café, then [...]
Asian-style Chicken Salad
This is the time of year when people who don’t do Community Supported Agriculture–aka a “farm share”–are laughing all the way to the Farmer’s Market or grocery store. It’s late June, you think to yourself. What does our family like to eat? You might choose a lovely quart of strawberries, a dinner’s worth of sugar snap peas, [...]
Mango Fro-yo Pops
My friend Kathleen laughed at me last night when I asked if I could post a photo of her daughter here. “You’re putting up a recipe for popsicles? I don’t know that anyone really needs a recipe for that.” Oh but they do. I mean, obviously you can just pour grape juice or lemonade into [...]
Make Your Own (Quinoa!) Sundaes
I understand that I’m about to lose a lot of you here, and that I risk compromising my integrity as a peddler of kid-friendly meals and becoming the kind of cultish health fascist who would suddenly foist upon you QUINOA! THE SUPERFOOD OF THE ANDES! I know. Let me start by telling you that it’s [...]
Warm and Smoky Potato Salad
We interrupt this quinoa special with a word from our sponsor, The Bacon Lady. I know, it’s a little helter-skelter, this food column, what with a recipe for bran timbales one week and marshmallow-Cheezit balls the next, but that’s a little bit how it is around here. And bacon? Well. I’m sure I don’t need [...]
Camping and Eating
We couldn’t help stealing surreptitious glances at our neighbors during the five days we were camping: there they were, cooking tidily at their stand-up four-burner stove, complete with pot rack, utensil rack, and countertop; there they were washing up pristinely at their wrought-iron wash stand, complete with decorative soap pump and snow-white dish towel; there [...]