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Oct
15th

Thu

Rainy October Evening Menu

Roasted Red Pepper and Eggplant Spread with Parmesan Crisps

Butternut Squash Soup

Wilted Salad with Apple, Red Onion, Walnuts, and Goat Cheese

Moroccan Spiced Halibut over Lemon Quinoa

Pancakes with Whipped Cream, Rose Syrup, and Fresh Berries

Oct
1st

Thu

So I made nine two-serving pizzas today. Most are destined to be frozen. I’ll have and quick, cheap dinner for two and I’ll learn how all these different veggies and cheeses freeze.

What would you like on yours?

Today's Day Off Challenge: Homemade Frozen Pizzas

Result to follow.

Sep
26th

Sat

These hearths provide clear evidence that Neanderthals could control fire, and fragments within the ashes provide circumstantial evidence that they could perform radical transformation on their food, a transformation that Claude Levi-Strauss regarded as one of the principal features that marked out humanity as something distinct and separate from the natural world. They could cook.

— Martin Jones, Feast: Why Humans Share Food, 2007.

Sep
23rd

Wed

Orange Honey glazed Chicken Quesadilla

Sep
15th

Tue

We need to stop flattering nutritionally worthless foodlike substances by calling them “junk food” - and instead make clear that such products are not in fact food of any kind.

— Michael Pollan, “Farmer in Chief,” The New York Times, 2008.

Sep
10th

Thu

In the kitchen, a young woman named Rachel Eakley had provided hors d’oeuvre like Parmesan polenta, Gruyère and thyme crackers, and pommes annettes.

— New York Magazine

Sep
9th

Wed

Ten-minute midnight snack: Hard-boiled eggs over cous cous with butter, chili powder, watercress and basil.

Sep
8th

Tue

The FDA is in trouble. It no longer has the capacity to protect the food supply. It still operates under food and drug laws passed in 1906 and modified in 1938.

— Marion Nestle, Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine, 2008.