62 posts categorized "Season: Anytime"
Garlicky Cuban Yuca (or is it Yucca?): November 20, 2011
Categories: Season: Anytime, Side Dish
Apparently we need a new song. Yes, thanks to George and Ira Gershwin, we have "you say potato, I say patahto," but we also need "you spell it yucca, I spell it yuca." According to Wikipedia, the plant we eat...
Tamari-Roasted Almonds: November 12, 2011
As I mentioned before, I had a burst of cooking energy before the wrecking ball left us without a kitchen. These tamari almonds were one of the things that I made to squirrel away for our time without a kitchen....
Soft Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes, Herbs, and Sour Cream: October 18, 2011
Over time, we've developed a yen for soft scrambled eggs, eggs that are cooked just until the yolks and whites are fully cooked, but no longer. Perfectly done, they are tender and moist and not the least bit dry. Our...
Creamy Hummus Salad Dressing: September 15, 2011
My favorite lunch these days is a bed of lettuce topped with whatever veggies we have in the refrigerator. Lately this has included cucumbers, peppers, green beans, and of course those excellent tomatoes. I often throw on a few crumbles...
Cuban Tostones (Fried Plantains): July 21, 2011
One of my few regrets about being a vegetarian is that there are few Cuban foods that we can eat anymore. Those delicious Cuban sandwiches all have meat. Of course, we still have our black beans, always a family favorite,...
Cilantro Rice, Chipotle Style: June 3, 2011
I have a confession to make. You may think it's nonstop cooking around here, even that we are whipping up wholesome, local, organic, vegetarian, completely-from-scratch meals day after day. We all have to have our aspirations, but the truth is...
Disinfectant Scrub: May 19, 2011
Categories: Out of the Kitchen, Season: Anytime
As promised, here is the recipe for the other homemade cleaning product that we use regularly, a scrub for the bathrooms and the kitchen. Again, it has Dr. Bronners as the base, and baking soda gives it some graininess to...
Simple Crusty Peasant Wheat Bread: April 14, 2011
This is a variation on those no-knead bread recipes that have been around for a few years now, but it is even easier than the other versions that I have seen. For me, easy + delicious = a keeper. As...
Flourless Chocolate Cake with Blood Orange Sauce: April 7, 2011
I sometimes think that there is a collective consciousness. Or maybe all ideas are riding on the same current. Right after I posted this recipe for Orange Chiffon Cake, the New York Times ran a recipe for Yuzu Chiffon Cake,...
Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies: March 31, 2011
Laced in with the sadness of the past year have been surprising moments of joy. We have gathered with others who also loved our dear ones and in those gatherings there has been much celebration, gratitude, and laughter. Misery loves...
Coco-Choco Pudding: March 3, 2011
The forces have been conspiring to get me to make pudding. First, Food 52 featured pudding in their recipe contest last week. I wanted to make an improved version of the Jell-O pistachio pudding that I loved as a...
Cooking with Mother Goose: Homemade Apple Sauce: February 9, 2011
Cooking with Mother Goose: A series of occasional posts inspired by children's stories and rhymes - just one more way for me to hook the children into the kitchen. For Baby You shall have an apple You shall have a...
Molasses Cookies: January 26, 2011
Much gratitude for all of your kind words in response to my last post. There are such good reminders in those comments about how important it is to be honest with our children and about how resilient those little ones...
Mexican Chocolate Tea Cakes: December 8, 2010
Mexican tea cakes -- sometimes known as Russian tea cakes -- are among my favorite cookies. Loaded with pecans and filled with light powdered sugar, they are a bite of delight. Really, there's not much that could be done to...
Best Ever Pecan Bars: November 9, 2010
Do you have a recipe that you just love that you look for any possible opportunity to make? If so, I would love to hear from you -- please leave me a comment and let me know what your favorite...
Hide the Cheese Lavender-Cheddar Muffins: November 3, 2010
We had a busy, fantastic, fun weekend. Along with Halloween and visits from some of our favorite people on the planet, we had a bash for my birthday, complete with a band whose services we had bought at the Acorn...
Homemade Soft Pretzels: September 30, 2010
At the top of my list of universal truths is this one: outside of the farmers' markets, no tomato beats a home grown one. Some foods are worth the effort to grow at home, and some aren't. I put carrots...
Chocolate-Hazelnut Macarons: September 24, 2010
As promised, here is a macaron recipe for you chocolate lovers. Chocolate is a challenge for me because I adore it, but I have become very susceptible to the effects of caffeine. I'm not sure if the cause is all...
Olivia's Warm Goat Cheese Salad: June 16, 2010
As you know if you have been reading this blog for a bit, I love nothing better than to cook with our children. Not with them as an ingredient, of course, but with them in the kitchen with me. Just...
Simple Fried Rice: June 8, 2010
I love to spend time puttering in the kitchen. When I feel a bit out of sorts or crabby, an hour or two in the kitchen will usually make everything right. I just slip on my cooking shoes, put some...
Homemade Butter: April 13, 2010
If you have not made homemade butter before, it's a treat. Our children enjoy the shaking but even more they enjoy watching the transformation from liquid to solid. While we shake we chant this song that we learned at Acorn...
Chocolate Banana Cream Pie: April 8, 2010
For Oscar's actual birthday, the one on his birthday, not the family party or the party with his friends, he requested banana cream pie. His Uncle Eddie makes a mean banana cream pie, and Oscar wanted one for his birthday....
Banana Coconut Pecan Bread: April 5, 2010
We have made a lot of banana chocolate chip snack cakes (my first recipe on this blog!). It doesn't often happen that all three children want the same food for breakfast or for a snack, but banana baked goods seem...
Vegetarian Matzo Ball Soup: March 22, 2010
Matzo ball soup is one of those quintessential comfort foods that seems like it should be able to cure anything. Well, maybe not anything, but definitely a cold or a heartache. Usually it is made with chicken, though, making it...
Baked Potatoes with Cilantro Pesto: March 8, 2010
We have been reading our way through Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books. The stories are beautifully written and transport me to a time and place that I will never know. And the children are so well behaved. The wonder...
Crêpes: March 1, 2010
Before Ophélie, the French teacher we hosted, came to visit, we were a bit apprehensive about feeding her. When we had told her that we were vegetarians, her response was that she didn't like many vegetables. Uh-oh. I was determined...
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies: February 24, 2010
Do you remember that old jingle, "Sometimes you feel like a nut; sometimes you don't"? I never understood that ad; I always feel like a nut. By that, I mean, of course, that I always feel like eating nuts. If...
Robin's Egg Meringues: January 27, 2010
A few weekends ago, I was engaging in my favorite Sunday afternoon activity, reading the Sunday New York Times and dozing between sections. I treasure the afternoons when I can do that. We have a big sectional couch in our...
Orange-Soy Tofu : January 25, 2010
I know that for meat eaters, tofu can be a tough sell. I can commiserate. The first time I tried it was from the salad bar in college. I put it on my salad because I thought it was feta....
Semolina Pizza Crust: December 11, 2009
Friday night has become homemade pizza night at our house. Maybe it has something to do with the weather turning colder, but on Fridays after a long week, we all burrow in, crank up the oven, and eat to our...
Roasted Tomatillo Salsa: December 4, 2009
I have often seen tomatillos listed as an ingredient, but only recently tried cooking with them. For those of you in Maryland, I first bought tomatillos at the Crossroads farmers' market, which has a decidedly Latin flair. Crossroads is now...
Pre-Baked Tart Crust: November 17, 2009
Categories: Basics, Season: Anytime
Everything tastes better and looks more elegant in a crust. This recipe makes one crust for a topless tart (so to speak). It can be used for sweet tarts or savory ones, just omit the sugar if you are making...
Lemonade Stand Risotto: November 5, 2009
Olivia is the queen of the lemonade stand. Unfortunately for her enterprise, our street doesn't get much traffic. But after calling around to friends and cousins, she almost always finds a cohort. Oscar and Chloe sometimes go along to help,...
Dilly Dally Whole Wheat Pancake Mix: November 2, 2009
When the children were younger, it was an effort to get anywhere. Just when I'd think we were ready to head out the door, someone would need to go to the bathroom or would have wandered back into the playroom....
Brown Sugar Cookies: October 29, 2009
Olivia got into her head that she wanted to make brown sugar cookies. Doesn't that sound delicious? I think she got the idea from a book, Easy Desserts, that my mother gave her a few years ago. She loves looking...
Caramelized Onion Carbonara: October 27, 2009
I thought it was time to post one of those super easy, delicious dinner ideas that we return to again and again. This recipe only calls for egg, onion, and pasta. The cream is an excellent touch, but you really...
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip After School Cookies: October 9, 2009
The children have been back at school for more than a month now, and we are finally getting into a routine. It is all a bit bewildering for me those first few weeks, trying to get back in the rhythm...
Victory Bread Pudding: October 6, 2009
I made this recipe for my aunt, Midge. She had been craving a basic, pure-tasting bread pudding. And, of course, I welcomed the challenge of coming up with something that would satisfy her craving. Midge isn't just any ordinary aunt....
Edamame Rice Balls: September 21, 2009
Sometimes a recipe comes together on the first try, and sometimes it seems that it never will. This recipe fell into the latter category. I had been wanting to come up with a simpler variation of sushi to put in...
Bean Quesadillas with Avocado Salsa: September 17, 2009
Categories: Appetizer, Avocado, Beans, Condiment, Farmers' Market Find, Lunch Box, Party Food, Quick Meal, Season: Anytime, Tomato
Some weeks we are very organized about the children's lunches, shopping especially for them on the weekend. And some weekends are chaotic and we don't get our planning done. Quesadillas are one of those lunches that we usually can pull...
Homemade Ricotta: September 8, 2009
I came to appreciate the virtues of ricotta as more than just a cheese for lasagna on a trip to Sicily. We had just hiked up a beautiful gorge and body surfed down it, something I'm sure that the U.S.'s...
Edamame Dip: August 6, 2009
Our children love edamame. My theory is that any food that they can eat with their fingers is immediately enticing. And not only do we eat edamame with our hands, we also separate them from the pods, which requires squirting...
Vegetarian Sloppy Joes a.k.a. Sloppy Tamaras: July 14, 2009
If you have not been too keen on tofu, but are willing to give it another go, this is an excellent dish to try. The flavors are robust, so even those who don't normally care for tofu will be won...
Purple Cauliflower Soup: July 7, 2009
If you saw the pictures from my Buy Local post, you know that we found some bright purple and orange-yellow cauliflower at the Silver Spring farmers' market. Chloe carried the purple one home in her little backpack. Apparently both of...
Almond Granola: June 22, 2009
One of my favorite summertime treats is plain yogurt with fresh berries and granola. I have it for breakfast sometimes, but more often for lunch. I love the cool, tart, creaminess of the yogurt contrasted with the sweetness of the...
Basil Hummus: May 14, 2009
When it comes to hummus, we are a house divided. Olivia and Chloe are fans, and Chloe in particular is loving her hummus lately. Oscar has just decided that he doesn't like it. We have tried many varieties of hummus...
Oscar's Brownies: May 11, 2009
This post is kind of cheating because this isn't my recipe. I haven't modified it one iota. There was no reason to because these brownies are perfect as is. So I'm just going to provide you the link to the...
Candied Ginger Scones: May 4, 2009
Teaism, a restaurant in Washington, D.C., offers much more than tea. They do sell a wide variety of teas and baked goods, but they also serve savory dishes that I have enjoyed at many lunches. They make a delicious bento...
Everyday Macaroni and Cheese: April 30, 2009
Macaroni and cheese seems to be one of those dishes that almost everyone will eat. In our house, we would all eat it most nights if we could. But it can be very rich and time consuming to make so...
Blueberry Crumb Cake: April 27, 2009
I love crumb cake and a few years ago, I found a recipe for a peach crumb cake on epicurious that was fabulous. It has become one of those recipes that I turn to again and again. It's not peach...
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