Meditations on Food – Page 3

Smokey the Tofu

My first, and meatless, foray into smoked foods.

Gourmet Salad with Sweet and Spicy Glazed Tempeh

I stand up for salad

Local Fruit vs Non-Local: A Smoothie Dilemma

Guilt free food? I weigh in on local and organic debate.

Cream of Fiddlehead Soup and Soup Repair

I attempt to cook Fiddleheads as Julia Child might have.

Roasted Garlic and Rules for Dating

A recipe for garlic and love.

Creamy Potato-Celery-Leek Soup: A Cure For Weather Head

I wish I were some kind of tough all-weather recreationalist, but the truth is, I’m a fair weather outdoors-woman. Rain and gloom have me pouting indoors with a condition which my husband refers to as Weather Head. Symptoms include headache, pessimism and crankiness. Days like these make me think I…

What is a Vegetarian?

Veggie and non-veggie diets demystified

Vegetarian Lentil Bolognese and a Confession

Kitchsplosion readers want to know, where’s the mess? Confession: Generally it gets cleaned up before any photos are taken. To be honest, dear readers, I didn’t want to scare you away. If you saw what the process looked like, I worried you would “x” out of your browser in terror.…

Ridiculously Good Vegetarian Mushroom Onion Gravy

This one might convert your carnivorous friends to vegetarianism. Or at least make them wonder why people usually use meat drippings to make gravy. There’s a story behind this gravy. (Isn’t there always?) It began with loaf. I never understood meatloaf. As a child I always wondered, if you were…