enjoying the foliage

Archive for the ‘recipes’ Category

Spinach and Feta Love

Posted by: monochromegirl on: Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Last year, Pratima wrote about her trip to Chicago and her fantastic excursion to Lou Mitchell’s, a diner with excellent omelettes and cute old ladies who hand out donut-holes foryou to nibble on while you decide what you want for breakfast. I second her exultations!
I was in Chicago for a couple of days for a [...]

How to make a vegan tofu meal unhealthy:

Posted by: bcoulson on: Saturday, April 5, 2008

I was doing the catering for this peace-fair/info-fest at Ottawa U and one of the guys I was cooking with discovered this:
-one block of extra firm tofu chopped into half-inch cubes
-fried in more oil than you think you need
-enough cayenne pepper to kill you
-too much salt
-a few pinches of brown sugar to taste
And fry that [...]

Tags: , ,

deliciousness in abundance

Posted by: monochromegirl on: Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Aside from papers, class, and food, life has been woefully uninteresting lately. And so, I present you with the vegetarian chili recipe I used yesterday for tomorrow’s Philosophy and Feminism potluck. I had some for lunch today and can vouch empirically for its overall goodness. The recipe was adapted from something I found in [...]

multitask this

Posted by: monochromegirl on: Friday, March 7, 2008

I love to cook, but my kitchen is cozy at best, and on most days, it is cramped and cluttered with dirty dishes. As a result, I tend to live off of not particularly wholesome dinners of tuna on rye and spinach salad and the like. Things took a turn for the better on Wednesday [...]