Posts Tagged ‘Vegetarian’
TND – Oscars 2011: Dinner Recipes
March 1, 2011WND – In which everyone we know RSVP’d yes
August 10, 2009
What do you serve 14 people, one of whom is vegetarian, and one of who doesn’t eat eggs or dairy?
The quick and dirty answer is vegetarian chili with cornbread. You substitute plain noodles for the cornbread for the person who can’t eat eggs – or embrace better living through chemistry and use egg substitutes to make the cornbread. I can’t quite bring myself to do this, but others might not be quite as up tight. Read the rest of this entry ?
WND Extra – Baby Shower Recipes
June 25, 2009Spanish Omelet
6 Tbsp olive oil
1.5 lb (Yukon gold) potatoes
1 small onion, sliced thin
1 tsp salt
½ tsp pepper
11 eggs*
Peel and quarter the potatoes, and then slice into ¼” slices. Slice the onion thinly and add to the potatoes. Toss with 4 Tbsp olive oil and ½ tsp salt and ½ tsp pepper. Read the rest of this entry ?
WND – Curse of the Liquid Gold
April 2, 2009
Dinner this week is the result of a series of events, some of which were in fact unfortunate, but most of which were just ordinary. No fourth cousins three times removed, or even third cousins four times removed attempted to follow me in strange disguises and steal my fortune*, but I did discover something worrying in my freezer. Or rather, I discovered a worrying lack of something in my freezer. Read the rest of this entry ?
WND – The Day After St. Patrick’s Day Dinner
March 19, 2009
Oscar Wilde said, “Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” As with many things Oscar Wilde, this is both witty and true. In my next life I aspire to being a professional aphorist.
Nothing will teach you to do, or not do, something quite as effectively as doing it and realizing half way through exactly how bad an idea it was. That being said, there are a lot of stupid things I’ve done in the kitchen that I’d have been willing to take on faith as bad ideas rather than having to experience them for myself. Out of idle curiosity I polled Dinner to find out what things they wish someone had told them not to do before they found out the hard way. For a group of people with (collectively) an alarming amount of education, we did all seem to be a little short on common sense. Mind you, this does add further proof to my theory that there is an inverse relationship between the quantity of higher education you have achieved and the amount of common sense you demonstrate.
WND – The Molten Cheesescapades
January 29, 2009
It has to be said that of all the places we lived while I was growing up, Switzerland did not my make Top 10, which is too bad because we lived there longer than we lived anywhere else. Switzerland is an odd country, and by Switzerland I mostly mean Geneva because we tended to leave Switzerland as quickly as possible when we went on vacation and would escape over the border into France or Italy or Austria, kind of like the von Trapp family but in reverse and with less singing. Read the rest of this entry ?
WND – Are You Paranoid Enough?
August 21, 2008
After many years of cooking for groups of people I have to say I agree with the sentiment: It’s not whether you’re paranoid, it’s whether you’re paranoid enough.
I have a running list in my head of everything that everyone who comes to Dinner regularly is allergic to, and what they’ll eat but rather wouldn’t, and what they’ll carefully pick out of any given dish. I also have a running list of substitutions, additions, subtractions and the point at which I don’t care if they pick it out of a dish and leave it on the side of the plate. On the other hand, if you haven’t been to Dinner in more than six months, I’ve probably forgotten what your food quirks are and will require reminding.
Case in point, when a friend and her boy came up to visit last month I sent about five emails checking to make sure that they ate meat/eggs/dairy products. The final response was more or less an exasperated, “Yes. Do your worst woman.” Read the rest of this entry ?
WND – The “they’re breaking down the hegemonic structure of the heteronormative language system*” edition
July 19, 2008
You’d have to ask Jes what it’s like to meet us en masse for the first time. I can only imagine that it’s mildly terrifying. Strictly speaking on an individual basis we’re not particularly scary. But, we’ve all known each other for at least 10 years and we’ve been having dinner together once a week for most of that time. We don’t always communicate in full sentences anymore. A lot of the time we short hand ideas via various British comics – Eddie Izzard, the folks at Beyond the Fringe, the occasional influx of Yes, Prime Minister, although that’s mostly just me. We have multiple in jokes about homunculi (because well, once you have one they seem to multiply – the jokes, not the homunculi). We’ve had perfectly serious conversations about the composition and history of blood mead that sounded for all the world like we were contemplating serving it at our next party. Rest assured, to the best of my knowledge none of us has ever served anyone blood mead for any occasion. And, while having an opinion about which captain was the best captain isn’t a requirement, having the answer not be Janeway probably is*.
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SND: Goat Cheese and Ginger
March 5, 2008There are two things that I’ve become obsessed with this year: ginger and goat cheese. I haven’t yet found a way to combine the two, but have made a lot of recipes calling for one or the other. Here’s a dinner with both.
Yum.
Dinner:
Roasted Tomato Soup (w/ goat cheese)
Toasted Sourdough Crustini
Gingerbread with Ginger Cream Cheese Frosting
SND – Not your mama’s rhubarb
February 14, 2008Okay, so my mama never cooked anything with rhubarb in it in her life. I don’t think. But rhubarb is something that you *hear* a lot about as a kid in the South even if you have absolutely no idea what a rhubarb looks like.
BTW, it looks like a pink stick. The pinker the better.
If you have access to decent rhubarb (God, I miss The Berkeley Bowl being 2 blocks from my house), this is the perfect Valentine’s Day dessert, especially if you’re not absolutely crazy about chocolate. And don’t get me wrong, I am. Sometimes I just want something a little different.
Monday Night Dinner 