Dinner

Meal plan: week of June 11

Meal plan: week of June 11

We had a few friends over last week for dinner, which was very fun indeed, and it happened to be on Wednesday, a.k.a. the day I don’t actually have to cook dinner, so I was inspired to make dessert instead. Even though it feels like […]

Peppy – and peppery – quick lunch (or dinner): Cabbage and eggs

Peppy – and peppery – quick lunch (or dinner): Cabbage and eggs

This is one of those recipes that is so much more than the sum of its parts. When my dear friend Shireen told me about this standby from her kitchen, I admit to being deeply suspicious. Cabbage? Green cabbage? Sautéed? With eggs? It just didn’t sound like something […]

Meal plan: week of May 21, 2018

Meal plan: week of May 21, 2018

Well. Last week’s meal plan – as basic as it was – went a little off the rails. It’s bananas how much my husband being out of town saps me of any energy for the kitchen. Or frankly, any energy for doing much of anything […]

Meal plan: week of April 30, 2018

Meal plan: week of April 30, 2018

Seattle remembered its identity over the weekend and has returned us to a generally grey and damp existence, but the weather lobotomy over the last week was truly glorious. Just when Seattle’s hardy residents are all “enough with the rain and the cold and the […]

Using your starter: blender sourdough veggie waffles

Using your starter: blender sourdough veggie waffles

Look, I married him anyway, but my partner doesn’t really go for breakfast for dinner. I KNOW. It’s madness, and I will never understand. If I served breakfast for dinner, he would utter nary a word, because he’s that kind of guy, but he isn’t […]

Meal plan: week of April 23, 2018

Meal plan: week of April 23, 2018

Ohhhh….Spring has sprung, said the bumblebee…. It takes pretty much all of my self control not to burst into this particularly charming preschool song everytime I step out the door these days. Everything is blooming and glorious, not only the pink and white and purple […]

Meal plan: week of April 15, 2018

Meal plan: week of April 15, 2018

Last week was spring break in Seattle, which meant a near-constant presence of helpful little hands and voices asking for something to eat, something to drink, someone to build a lego garage, no two, no three, no can you just build an entire town, someone […]

Meal plan: week of April 9, 2018

Meal plan: week of April 9, 2018

I was away last week and over the weekend, and this week is spring break, so getting dinner together the next few days is going to be a feat of willpower alone. While away, I pillaged my friend’s delightful cookbook collection, and she sent me […]

Quick dinner: Instant Pot pot-in-pot dal and rice

Quick dinner: Instant Pot pot-in-pot dal and rice

There are approximately one bazillion different types of dals in this fine world, and there is no way I could ever hope – or even want – to pick just one in my rotation. In my pantry, I usually stock chana dal (hulled, split garbanzos), […]

Meal plan: week of April 2, 2018

Meal plan: week of April 2, 2018

I ate so much today for Easter brunch – including a quite successful, if slightly underbaked, chocolate babka/krantz cake that I successfully adapted from the Ottolenghi recipe in Jerusalem (using a few notes from Smitten Kitchen) to work as a naturally leavened, pre-fermented sourdough concoction. Can I […]