Sunday surprise: Banana bread photo recipe 11 May 2008 7:53 pm
Posted by Tracy in : baking, cooking, dessert, events, pictures, recipes , add a commentHappy Sunday, all! Some of you (hi, Liz!) may remember this banana bread from this recipe here, which I posted sans illustrations because Liz asked nicely, just a few days before the announcement of Not Quite Nigella’s Banana Bread Bake-Off. Now, at long last, here’s the illustrated version I first alluded to more than a month ago. The finished product looks like this:
which is to say, pretty darn tasty. Now, here’s how to make it: (more…)
Recipe: Mushroom Miso Soup 15 April 2008 11:10 am
Posted by Tracy in : cooking, recipes, soup, vegan, vegetarian , 4 commentsTrue story: this recipe helped me get a job. I’ll explain in a bit. 
First, I should say that I originally published this recipe on Everything2 back in the day, so it’s an oldie but a goodie. Second, I’m posting it here in newly updated form in honor of the April No Croutons Required challenge (originally described here) from Lisa’s Kitchen and Tinned Tomatoes, which I learned about here at Is My Blog Burning? Finally, the story about that job. It was during my year in Laguna Beach, when I was finishing the very last requirements on my undergraduate degree, and applied for a job tutoring high school kids on the SAT. After turning a practice test inside out, I was invited for a group interview, for which all the candidates were asked to prepare a short instructional lecture of some kind. Mine was this recipe. (You think maybe I was in the wrong line of work and didn’t know it yet? Um…) Anyway, without further ado, here’s: (more…)
Recipe: Banana bread 8 April 2008 9:03 am
Posted by Tracy in : baking, books, breakfast, cheese, cooking, dessert, friends, recipes, vegetarian , 3 commentsI was going to save this recipe for later in the week, but Liz asked nicely, so there ya go. My banana bread recipe is adapted from the one in the original Moosewood Cookbook, which is actually a variation on their carrot cake recipe. Seriously — “Banana Bread” appears on the opposite page from “Carrot Cake” as a slightly-too-long list of substitutions which makes for really tricky recipe reading, especially considering the original recipe makes two loaves and we only have one loaf pan (a situation I hope to someday fix, but today is not that day, and anyway I much prefer having a base recipe that’s easy to double, instead of having to divide everything by two all the time). So. Without further ado, here’s Tracy and Peter’s take on banana bread, as copied into my beloved spiral-bound recipe notebook for convenience, because generally the way this gets made is me reading the recipe to Peter, who makes all the magic happen. (more…)
Monkey Monday: in praise of sharing and other forms of awesomeness. 17 March 2008 5:24 pm
Posted by Tracy in : Morning Glory, books, cooking, friends, garden, recipes, vegan, vegetarian, work , add a commentI’ve said it before and will say it again: I’m not even vegetarian and I love the Post-Punk Kitchen. It’s not just because Isa’s Vegan with a Vengeance
Breakfast chilaquiles: a sort-of recipe, mostly in pictures. 12 March 2008 8:07 am
Posted by Tracy in : breakfast, cheese, cooking, eggs, pictures, recipes, vegan, vegetarian , 2 commentsYou know you want them, especially now that Jen’s fabulous huevos rancheros are off the Morning Glory organic specials menu (I know I didn’t sell any chilaquiles at all last week, but they’ll probably go back to being their usual popular selves now).
