Tag: vegan recipes
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Vegetarian Boston Baked Beans & Bad Songs to Sing at Bedtime
If there’s a skill of mine that will never be rewarded financially, and in fact only serves as a road trip plus or game night choose me incentive, it is my ability for lyric recall. All that brain space that is supposed to be taken up by useful facts and figures is chock full of… Read more
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Red Chard with Citrus-Pomegranate Glaze & Marital Advice for My Kids
Kids, the day will come when you will ask me about marriage. You will want to know how I was sure about your father, and about certainty in love. And here is what I will say: it is easy to imagine and to live the carousel of love, to find the person you want to… Read more
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Crispy Mushroom & Shallot Toasts & The Weird Table
“Which lunch table did you sit at?” Jamie asks after he’s explained the intricacies of the middle school lunchroom, the center tables and their popular, designer jeans crew, the ‘second tier who basically want to be at the center tables but aren’t,’ and so on. Odd 14-year-old that I was, mushrooms on toast was one… Read more
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Recipes for Rosh Hashanah Part 1 & Faith & Multi-tasking
This morning Will, 4, asks for paper so he can make a book about “Evan the Horse.” He knows no one named Evan nor do we have a horse. The paper comes from my office and the book involves wobbly letters written in no particular order and lots of tape. Julia has a fever and… Read more
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Black Bean Burgers & Lime-Poblano Corn Salad & Waiting
I’ve kept you waiting, I know. And you, unlike my children who can be amused by “find something in the doctor’s office that’s a square” or “would you rather meet Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day or Kevin Youklis from the Red Sox” or “list in order the five places you want to visit”…you are… Read more
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Warm Vegetable Salad with Beet Greens & Unplugged Parenting (The NYT is Wrong)
Ok, so the NYT isn’t wrong. I just disagree with this article here in which the author describes his terrific “plugged-in summer.” Now, don’t for a second start to think I’m going to rant about parents at the playground who are texting or reading blogs (ahem) instead of interacting or at least enjoying watching their kids.… Read more
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Farmer’s Market Gazpacho (Raw-Vegan) & Perspective
“Are you making sauce?” Julia asks. “It’s actually soup,” I say. “Actually, it’s ketchup,” Will says. He’s 4 and everything is better with ketchup. “It’s soup.” “The cold one?” Julia raises her eyebrows while I nod. “It still looks like sauce. You could use it as sauce.” And thus, the gazpacho sauce was borne. We… Read more
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Twice-Cooked Beans with Smoky Paprika Onions & Laziness
Some recipe are borne of genius. Some, like this one, are borne of sheer laziness. What, you’ve never been enamored of Jacobs Cattle beans, their marble-like texture and splotches of brown and white, so taken with them you keep them cloistered away in a jar just to ogle them? Well, I have. And then I… Read more
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Whole Slow-Roasted Carrots with Thyme & Secret Shame
At the family bbq, our kids were nosing around the yard, digging in the dirt and becoming fast friends as kids under ten do. This writer and I stood around as writers do, chit-chatting until we feel enough time has passed to discuss work. Generally the conversations go something like this: Writer 1: So…what’re you… Read more
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Maple-Polenta Southern Biscuits & Biscuits & Cuddling (Vegan Option, too!)
Confession: I am not southern. I am not even semi-southern. But I harbor deep fantasies about being whisked away and made to eat cheese grits, collard greens, and biscuits. In fact, last night I ate an entire bunch of collard greens. ON my own. I *might* have had to sleep in the attic due to… Read more
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Black Olive and Caper Tapenade & Proportional Happiness
When I go to Mexico to visit my old friend, Cristina, I like to help her milk goats, eat the cheese she makes from those goats, and wander into the market to buy hand-made blue gorditas and cactus for salad. But what I really love is buying spoons. They are made locally, don’t cost much,… Read more
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Summer Squash Ribbon Salad with Lemon-Dill Vinaigrette (Raw) & My Vegan Dog
Perhaps you’re familiar with Newfoundlands as a breed. Maybe you read Peter Pan (in the original book, Nana is a Newfie, not a Saint). My dog, Atticus, is, for lack of a better ford, a beast. He is giant, hairy, drools, has huge teeth, paws that can take out a grown man’s eye (though he’d… Read more
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Addis (Red Lentils with Tomatoes) & Old Haunts
I’ve loved some restaurants in my life. Some remain, some have since closed, turned over into other eateries or morphed into cell phone stores. I look back on these places the way one might look back on an old flame. Oh, tiny little place no one knew about in the then-dodgy part of London with… Read more
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Zucchini Ribbons with Velvet Onions & The Mystery of the Green Bag
Upon our return from Italy last night we realized a few things: we are tired, which is silly considering we relaxed very hard while there…I’m thinking this had something to do with 19 hour travel day with five kids, two long-haul flights, time changes, system breakdown of in-flight entertainment, the airline somehow having us down… Read more
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Beet Salad with Lime Vinaigrette (Raw) & School’s Out for Summer
Nothing says Summer Fun for kids like a raw beet salad, right? Wrong. But this does not mean I won’t make it again. It was a great for items in my CSA delivery and because it’s barely heated through, the beet retains bite Read more