Recipe: Minestrone 22 May 2008 10:05 am
Posted by Tracy in : vegan, soup, recipes, vegetarian, cooking , 1 comment so farThere’s a minestrone special on at Morning Glory this week, and it’s all right, but I would’ve made it even better. (Sorry, Gail.) Turns out I have a pretty specific idea in my head about minestrone — brothy tomato-vegetable soup with Italian seasonings (by which I mostly mean herbs like basil and oregano), some kind of light-colored bean, and maybe pasta. We’re talking serious Tracy comfort food, the kind I associate so strongly with warm fuzzies that just the idea of it was enough to make me fall in love with this picture of Chiara (ok, the swooning was not hurt by the fact that Chiara is awesome and that picture is really cute, but I digress). Maybe my notion of minestrone is so non-traditional as to be heretical, in which case I’m really sorry, but it’s going to be a while before I can stop using the word, even if it does not mean what I think it means. But I digress. (more…)
Cooking for friends, part X: dal bhaat with Liz, Jason, and Ryan 21 May 2008 6:16 am
Posted by Tracy in : vegan, nepal, vegetarian, eating, friends, cooking , add a commentCooking for friends is one of my favorite things to do in the whole wide world. So when I made plans to visit Liz and Jason and meet my new favorite two-month-old Ryan, I maybe kinda sorta browbeat them into letting me make them dinner, since that’s how I roll. Then, because I’m kind of a jerk, I asked, “So what do you want for dinner?” Realizing that this was kind of a bad move, I suggested adventure cooking, teaming up on a new recipe, or maybe dal bhaat as a sure thing kind of backup plan. Liz wisely opted for the latter, and a delicious time was had by all. (more…)
Recent reading roundup! 20 May 2008 10:31 am
Posted by Tracy in : geekery, vegetarianism, news, books , add a commentWhile I’m playing catch-up (must run to work very soon!), here’s a not-so-small selection of awesome things I’ve read or bookmarked to read so far this month, sort of organized into themes. I did my best to start and end with fun things, with a good mix of light and heavy in between. (more…)
Monkey Monday: NYC trip, garden update, and more! 19 May 2008 8:58 am
Posted by Tracy in : garden, travel, fangirl, events, pictures, baking, eating, books, Marion Nestle, school, cooking , add a commentFirst and foremost, readers, if you like my banana bread recipe, I’d really appreciate your giving it (and me) some love over at Not Quite Nigella’s banana bread recipe collection roundup, which got an amazing 79 replies. If you don’t like my banana bread recipe, there might be something over there that’s more your speed — heck, there may be something over there for you even if you don’t usually like banana bread, the responses are that diverse! However, if you never, ever like banana bread, then you should under no circumstances click that last link, because there is nothing there for you. (But seriously, check it out. And vote for me!)
In other news, I had a great time in NYC, (more…)
What’s in my freezer? 15 May 2008 9:04 am
Posted by Tracy in : events, not even vegetarian, food storage, pictures , add a commentSo Chez Us asked a good question a little more than a week ago, and a day or two after that I finally got around to taking a picture of the contents of my freezer, and a day or two after that I got distracted by this little trip to the East Coast. (New York City, by the way, is still made of awesome.) While I was easily able to name three things without looking for the Vegan MoFo survey a while back, listing the full contents of my freezer is difficult even when I’m staring it cold in the face. Now, for my amusement (and hopefully yours as well) I’m going to attempt to respond to that very good question from all the way across the country, just by looking at those week-or-so-old pictures. Here goes!
