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June 30, 2009 in 100 calorie snack, cookies, gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian • 4 comments
Ignore the “gluten-free” in the title. These are not some saintly cardboardy cookie things.
And I’m really not trying to be All About Baking here. Honestly.
And I’m not trying to be all health nut vegetarian gluten-free, either. FSM knows I’m a crappy vegetarian and an even more piss-poor health nut.
But you know what? These cookies [...]
June 25, 2009 in soup / chili • no comments yet
The only cold soup I’ve been a fan of is gazpacho, and I haven’t had it in years because I can’t find any place around here or any recipe that makes it the right way, with bread.
Other than Sevilla-made gazpacho, spooning a cold pureéd liquid into my maw just has never been a thrilling [...]
June 20, 2009 in how to • 2 comments
Otherwise known as: kind of mashed, kind of sweet strawberry yumminess.
This how-to might seem pretty basic, and it is. It’s not hard, but there are a few things that are still nice to know. For instance, you might as well hull the berries before washing them. Inevitably you run into a mushy spot here [...]
June 18, 2009 in cake, desserts, vegetarian • 2 comments
Strawberry season is full-bore, yay! We don’t grow them in our garden, though my grandma used to. Sis has a patch in her garden, though. The only thing fun about picking strawberries is popping them in your mouth while you do it. Otherwise it’s hunched-over, hunt-and-peck labor.
So we order them from a local grower. How [...]
June 15, 2009 in desserts, main course, salad, vegan, vegetarian • no comments yet
Ohnoes. A pantry meal — in June!
It may be spring — almost summer — but the garden’s getting a slow start around here. A very wet spring kept us from planting until late May. We’ve already burned past the asparagus and rhubarb, and strawberries are due any day now, but normally at this time we’d [...]
June 13, 2009 in main course • 1 comment
After several years as an ovo-lacto vegetarian, I came back to fish. I love fish, particularly salmon. It’s pretty, delicious, and full of protein and omega-3s. There are a few things to watch out for when purchasing salmon, though, if you’re being conscious of where your food comes from and how it impacts our environment.
There’s [...]
