Tag Archives: cheese

Gourmet Salad with Sweet and Spicy Glazed Tempeh

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Head Chef

Posted in Adventures in Cooking, Dinner, Meditations on Food, Recipes | Tagged candied pecans, cheese, Jeffrey Steingarten, recipe, salad, tempeh, vegetarian | Leave a comment

Who’s Making the Frittata? And the Ethics of Eggs

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Head Chef

Thoughts on who’s making dinner and polemic on eggs. Continue reading →

Posted in Adventures in Cooking, Breakfast, Easy, Quick | Tagged CAFO, cheese, Eggs, ethics, factory farm, Frittata, local food, vegetarian, whole foods | Leave a comment

Top 10 Impostor Health Foods

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Head Chef

Impostor health foods: neither tasty nor healthful. Continue reading →

Posted in Meditations on Food, Top Tens | Tagged advertising, cheese, cooking, diet, fake food, fat, homemade, processed food, vegetarian, whole foods, whole grain | 2 Comments

Vegetarian chili, aside from being the perfect meal for a cold winter day, is also one of my favorites because it happens magically when I’m nowhere near the kitchen. Yesterday evening I was on the floor of the writing room, … Continue reading →

Posted in Dinner, Easy, Lowfat, Meditations on Food, Recipes, Soup | Tagged canned, cheese, chili, fake food, homemade, lowfat, processed food, vegetarian, vegetarian chili, Writing | 2 Comments

Half-Whole-Wheat Pizza Dough

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Head Chef

Technically, you can turn anything into pizza. That’s what I used to believe, anyway. When I was in middle school, I used to pride myself on being able to make pizza out of any starch we had around the house. … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventures in Cooking, Dinner, Recipes, Whole Grain | Tagged cheese, cooking, diet, homemade, pizza, pizza dough, recipe, vegetarian, whole foods, whole grain, whole wheat | 2 Comments

Homemade Ravioli Two Ways: Dinner Salvaged

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Head Chef

Ravioli are fussier than my usual fare—usually consisting of forgiving indelicate creations—but I wanted to try my hand at them, especially if I didn’t have to make my own pasta dough. (Someday I will get a pasta machine, but maybe … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventures in Cooking, Dinner, Easy, Lowfat, Pasta, Recipes | Tagged cheese, cooking, low-fat, lowfat, mushroom, pasta, quick, ravioli, recipe, tofu, vegetarian, wonton wrappers | Leave a comment

Cheese is Bad For Me and I Should Eat a Lot More of It, Says the USDA

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Head Chef

Reading a New York Times article on the USDA’s mixed signals about cheese made me think about my own conflicting cheese emotions. The USDA, like a person with the two hemispheres of his brain separated, tells us “Eat less fat—don’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Meditations on Food | Tagged advertising, cheese, cooking, fake cheese, fake food, fat, fitness, USDA, vegan, vegetarian, whole foods | Leave a comment

Vegetarian French Onion Soup, Julia Child Style

Posted on October 29, 2010 by Head Chef

“Vegetarian French onion soup? How do you do that?” everyone wanted to know. I wasn’t exactly sure, but I had a plan: use Julia Child’s method for the onion part of the soup and for the “French” part, that is, … Continue reading →