This Week’s Receipt (late)

Sorry this is so late in coming! It’s been a busy week.

Let’s add on a few things, shall we?
From Jack’s:

bread: $1
cheese: $1.29
lemon juice: $1
chickpeas: $1
Total: $4.29

Weekly total: $29.43

Faux Pho Consciousness

We haven’t posted any of these “food for thought” pieces in a while, but I read an article today that inspired me to write a little thought piece on food politics. I’ll say up front, however, that this post is going to include some potentially inflamatory opinions about vegetarianism, so if you’re just here [...]

Collards and Seitan: The Recipe

Here’s how I made the dinner from the last post.
What you’ll need:
seitan steaks
collard greens
1 onion
olive oil
lime juice
crushed red pepper
garlic
salt and pepper
For the seitan, I sauteed homemade seitan steaks (thawed, having been frozen in broth for a couple weeks) with olive oil in a cast iron skillet, sprinkling some salt, pepper, crushed red pepper, and granulated [...]

Collard Ribbons with Homemade Seitan Steak

Phil made this dinner tonight, so he’ll have to give you the recipe, but I wanted to share the beauty of a simple meal.  We had this with pieces of a baguette (day-old from the Coop – receipt to come tomorrow) and it was delicious.  It probably helped that this collards came from my mom’s [...]

Garlic Scape Pesto

As written, I made the garlic scape pesto last night to have with some Eden Vegetable Spiral Pasta (bought in bulk at the Coop last week).  Let’s just say that you must LOVE garlic to have this pesto and you must LOVE the person who eats it with you – it’s stinky, but delicious!
I modified [...]

This Week’s Receipt

I think the only exciting food item here is the rhubarb.  I plan on making some muesli for healthy breakfasts this week and then it’ll just be lots of nice greens for dinner/lunch.  We still have to use up the garlic scapes that were part of the CSA bounty and I think we’re going to [...]

Easiest Hors’Dourves

The other night we had a friend over and didn’t want to go crazy with a dinner, so we decided to use up some of the cheese we had in the fridge and I went to Jack’s 99 Cent Store and bought $1 crackers and a can of black olives (also $1, bringing our total [...]

This Week’s Receipt

I went to Chinatown yesterday morning to get some veggies because I knew it would be pouring by the time I got out of work.  I got:

celery: $1
scallions: .50
daikon (very small piece, possibly for the kimchi making?): .25
lettuce: 1.00
cucumbers: .75
TOTAL: 3.50

Add that to the 22.50 spent at the Coop early this morning (it’s supposed to [...]