Tag: vegetarian recipes
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Seville Orange Marmalade
Seville oranges have a high pectic content which makes these preserves have a good set – AKA it isn’t runny. Now, not everyone likes marmalade – it’s deceptively pretty and a bit bitter. I like to keep a few pots of it around to slather on thick toast or to mix with Greek yogurt and… Read more
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Best Noodle Pudding (Kugel) & Welcome Back (Rosh Hashana, School, Fall)
Were we on a break? I didn’t intend for us to part. And yet…summer passed with nary a recipe. Why? Because I was too busy listening to the just-turned-5-year-old breathlessly tell me he has a new pet. “What is it?” “A worm.” He is young enough that he still pronounces it “warhm”. “Quick – come… Read more
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Italian White Bean Spread & Birds
The big news around our house is that Will turned 5 last week and, perhaps to celebrate, two chickadees have finally moved into the bird house will built and painted a couple of years ago. He painted it again last spring feeling as many house-sellers do that a fresh coat might clinch the sale. But… Read more
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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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Mushroom, Fontina, and Spinach White Lasagna & Super Bowl Weekend
I am ready for the big game! That exclamation point makes it seem as though I am actually excited about football. I am not. I like Boston sports teams as much as the next bookish traveller mom, but…what I really enjoy is the excitement other people have for the game. While they cheer and watch,… Read more
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Double Quinoa and Collard Greens Pie & Eating Alone
I spend most of time with other people. Often, these humans are small and frustrate easily and see nothing wrong with digging for worms in the yard and running in to taste a dish with their wormy fingers. I’m a fan of dirt. And worms. And people. This weekend we had staggered some visits but… Read more
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Whole Grain Double Apple Breakfast Cake & Parenting
You know you want this. We have a two snack per day rule in our house (gasp!) and one of those snacks must be fruit (double gasp!). We started this when the kids were very young and now that 3 of the 4 are old enough to be in charge of their own school or… 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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Tomato-Cheddar Cornmeal Crust Tart & Hurricane Pie
Q: What happens when you visit the in-laws for vacation but the East Coast shuts down because of Irene*? A: You come home with four kids and a hairy beast and a soggy husband and scrounge. The shelves look like Soviet markets circa 1982 or my older brother’s fridge that first year out of college… Read more
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Extra Thick Garlic & Mushroom Soup
Advice and observations from my children: Don’t let other people make you feel bad because most of the time they’re only saying that because they feel bad about it. If you get kicked in the ballsack, it will hurt. Especially if it’s your older brother who does it. Save your candy until the movie starts.… 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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Labneh (Middle Eastern Yogurt Dip) & Loving Summer
Fall was always my favorite season. Maybe it will be again but when I became a parent I realized the freedom of summer. Do my kids miss homework? They do not but I believe I miss it even less than they do. I fit my work in where I can all year-round but in… Read more
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Semi-Sweet Breakfast Loaf with Carrots and Zucchini & A Threeway
I’m the kind of baker who likes the load a bunch of foodstuffs in a bowl and see what happens. This is the School of Anti-Baking. Sometimes this results in oven explosions or brownies that resemble moose turds but most of the time I have enough of the science down to have it work. “What’re… Read more
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Baked Italian Eggplant Polenta with Parmesan & No Place like Om
It is an unwritten rule that if your partner or spouse goes away for any period of time, the children and animals will give you trouble. Today is no exception. 5am? Cue the dog vomit. 5.30am cue the daughter hunched over the toilet. 5.45am cue the dog again along with the worried Daniel who slept… 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