I’ve drawn the vegetable card again this year, but, unlike last year, I’m not worrying about it as much. I’m going to roast Brussels sprouts with olive oil and lemon rind. I’ll also do a green-bean dish for the I-hate-cruciferous-vegetables fools. “Another Diane” raised the make-ahead-vegetable question in the comments from last year’s entry, pointing […]
Entries Tagged as 'Food preparation'
By request: How to section grapefruit without membranes
December 15th, 2008 · 10 Comments · Cooking tips
It’s funny the kitchen tasks you take for granted. My friend and her souffles, for example, or me and my grapefruits sections (or my orange sections—same idea). But this weekend I took a salad that included grapefruit sections to a gathering, and Ann recalled the tedious task from her childhood of removing the membranes from […]
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Curried Butternut Squash Soup fits with season
December 4th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Food preparation, Healthy eating, recipes
Soup season is definitely here. I have several favorite soups (Butternut Vegetable Soup, Lentil Soup and Tuscan Five-Bean Soup come to mind), but I decided I needed to try something I hadn’t made before, Curried Butternut Squash Soup. It was an easy choice because (a) I have all that end-of-market squash in the basement and […]
Foodperson opens unabashed exchange division
December 3rd, 2008 · 4 Comments · Books about food, Tools
As I’ve been working to develop a new website (less personal, more helpful, more commercial), I put together an Amazon.com “aStore,” which designates various products and lets readers order products I recommend via Amazon. It occurred to me that there was no reason (except for my general reluctance to appear to be a shill) not […]
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Got my goat: an adventure in eating
December 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Food preparation, Food selection, local food, recipes
A few months ago, my friends Bryan and Carolyn gave me a pair of goat sirloins along with my purchase of some of their pastured beef. Although I previously tried and liked barbecued goat ribs, I’d never cooked goat, so when I finally got around to preparing it yesterday I decided to follow Carolyn’s advice. […]
Mountain conquered without leaving kitchen
November 24th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Food preparation, recipes
Some cooking tasks seem so scary that some of us (me) scrupulously avoid them, but when you finally attack them and succeed, well, you feel like you’ve really accomplished something. With this year’s conquests including canning and carmelizing sugar, I was ready for one more: soufflé. It’s funny how these processes grow big in your […]