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Posts Tagged ‘salads’
First Food Failure, lovingly retold.
Scale of Fail: 1 million vs. 300 in Battle of Thermopylae, then getting pushed back into Persia by the fucking Athenians.
So here’s my problem. When I make up recipes, I think things will be GREAT. They are not always great. I feel like I’ve got imagination, but terrible form. The form will come with either [...]
Salads with sauted things are the best salads.
The caponata from here (a friend recently got Giada de Laurentiis’s cookbook and it was a worthwhile investment in terms of deliciousness) – ingredients I didn’t have on hand (capers, celery) + a bed of arugula with a little olive oil and some crumbled feta = lunch.
The next day I made the leftover caponata into [...]
Asian Food Bonanza!
Erren, maybe we could put in a category for recipe/experiment requests?
If anyone has successfully made any of the following, I’d dearly love to see a recipe post about it:
- Cold sesame noodles (like the dumpling place in Cville)
- Asian oily rice
- Scallion pancakes
- Winter melon soup
- There’s a daikon soup out there that my [...]
Salade pour un lundi pluvieux
It’s been raining here in the bay on and off for the past two weeks or more, so I’ve been working from home, making myself lunch, and getting about zero work done. This recipe was inspired by (1) Giada de Laurentiis’ caramelized pancetta and fennel salad, (2) A very tasty spinach salad I had at [...]