I know it’s old hat by now, but I wanted to share the menu I prepared for a recent World Cup party in honor of the US game against Algeria. (I might’ve shown you the US versus Slovenia menu, but I forgot my camera that night.) I’m relatively new to the cuisine of Northern Africa, [...]
Category Archives: Entrée
Savory and Sweet: Hand Pies
June 4, 2010 – 12:42 PM
(This is part three of a three-part collaboration with Cybelle Codish and Taryn Bickley. For part one, click here. For part two, click here.) As soon as Spring breaks here in Chicago, something amazing happens. Aside from the trees greening themselves overnight, and the frenzied blooming of flowers, there’s a sea change of a decidedly more human [...]
Savory and Sweet: Quinoa
June 3, 2010 – 10:58 AM
This is the second of a three-part collaboration with Cybelle Codish and Taryn Bickley. For the first part, click here. For the third part, click here. Quinoa, for those of you not familiar with it, is an ancient grain (well, pseudocereal, to be exact) from South America. Pronounced “KEEN-wa”, it’s a rare plant source of [...]
Orecchiette With Roasted Root Vegetables and Tahini
April 2, 2010 – 9:52 PM
You will please forgive my tardiness with this post; this last week or so, I’ve been blindsided by a messy and slightly incapacitating pile of anxiety, the likes of which I haven’t seen in ages. So while I continue to sticky-tape my brain back together, here is a recipe that I’ve been unproductively mulling over [...]
Homemade Ricotta and Potato Pizza
March 19, 2010 – 5:13 PM
When I was buying the groceries for my recent Irish fry-up, I bought two yellow potatoes (the ones used for the chips). Considering that we only made it through half of one potato for that breakfast, you might say I over-purchased. But for me, it’s always good to have spare vegetables around the house. They [...]
Steak Fried Rice
March 12, 2010 – 12:41 PM
I love fried rice. It’s so accommodating. Whatever leftovers you happen to have (and I mean anything), it’s an easy matter of cutting things down to size and quickly sautéing them all with some rice. Simple, nutritious, and fridge-cleaning, it could hardly get better. For this version, I used the leftovers from the steak tacos [...]
Steak Tacos
March 10, 2010 – 10:45 PM
For the most part, I cook and eat a vegetarian diet. Not that I’m a vegetarian; far from it. Can you really have a pot of lentils without a little bacon, or red beans without a smoked ham hock? My point exactly. In fact, I think I could actually pick up a whole lamb, gamboling [...]
Roasted Eggplant With Tahini Sauce
March 5, 2010 – 7:53 PM
Normally, this is where I’d insert photo after photo of lovely ingredients. Imagine then, the plump aubergine, the cream-colored garlic, the crisp onion. Imagine the anchovies, swimming eerily in olive oil. Imagine the cumin seeds, the sunny lemon, the putty-hued tahini, the jarring red of the tomato. You’ll have to imagine these things because I [...]