Gourmet Salad with Sweet and Spicy Glazed Tempeh
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Tag: cheese
Who’s Making the Frittata? And the Ethics of Eggs
Thoughts on who’s making dinner and polemic on eggs.
Top 10 Impostor Health Foods
Impostor health foods: neither tasty nor healthful.
It’s Chili Outside
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, re-arranging paragraphs of my latest essay that I’d cut into…
Half-Whole-Wheat Pizza Dough
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. I don’t know exactly how this began, but when I…
Homemade Ravioli Two Ways: Dinner Salvaged
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 not until I have a kitchen large enough to accommodate…
Cheese is Bad For Me and I Should Eat a Lot More of It, Says the USDA
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 have so much cheese!” and at the same time encouraged…
Vegetarian French Onion Soup, Julia Child Style
“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, the browned, melted cheese suspended on toasted bread, which then…
