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Secret to weight loss might be density
Filed under: Vegetarian, Vegan, Grains, Vegetables, Nuts/seeds, Fruit, Lists, How To, America, Health & Medical  Hooray! Yet another article about the end-all, be-all method to finally, yes finally (!) lose weight!
Ugh.
Strangely enough, the tips in an article by Sally Squires of the Washington Post are absolutely normal, and if I'm going to poke fun at anything at all, it's the fact that the logic behind the Energy Density method is absolutely sound.
Basically, you replace food with a high energy density with foods that have low energy-density....
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Recipe: Sarah's Simple Tzatziki
Filed under: Hors D'oeuvres, Snacks, Mediterranean, Vegetarian, Vegetables, Dairy, Cheese, Recipes, Raves & Reviews, How To, Middle East, Condiments, America, Europe, Comfort Food, Spices 
A few weeks ago, my friends and I got together after work to play board games (yes yes I know - how very, um, exciting), and a friend and I were charged with providing food. We were meeting rather late, so there was no need to go with full dinner fare. I decided on a few...
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Roasted Tomato Basil Soup
Filed under: Vegetarian, Vegetables, Recipes, Roasting, Comfort Food 
Despite the fact that is summer, and the temperatures are going to climb back into the 90's by the middle of the week (at least here in Philadelphia), I have soup on the brain. Since I'm also obsessed with the summer crop of Jersey tomatoes that are rolling into the stores and farmers' markets around here, I thought I would share my very favorite Roasted Tomato Basil soup recipe.
Sadly, I have absolutely no claim on this one, it belongs to the Barefoot Contessa. I tend to have difficulties with many...
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What should I do with a gazillion cherries?
Filed under: Dessert, West Coast, Vegetarian, Recipes, Fruit, Spirit of Summer, How To, America 
My Slashfoodie friends, I am at a loss.
I have about a bazillion (yeah, so I exaggerated when I said "gazillion") cherries sitting on my countertop, and I have no idea what to do with them besides wash them and just eat them straight out of the bowl. I have used dried cherries in baking and during the autumn, and lately, I have been throwing frozen cherries into my morning smoothies. However, I have never used fresh cherries in cooking.
The reason...
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Grilled zucchini, feta and mint
Filed under: Dinner, Vegetarian, Vegetables, Recipes, Grilling 
All across the country, zucchini and other summer squashes are taking over garden patches. They double in size overnight, leaving home cooks pondering new ways to use them up so that their families don't say to them, "You mean we're having squash? Again?"
The following recipe has captured my attention as a terrific way to use a lot of your zucchini. It fancies up your basic grilled squash, and, coupled with a protein and a grain salad, would make a terrific meal. The grilling of the squash could be done outside, on a stove-top grill...
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How to make tofu, a la Cool Hunting
Filed under: Vegetarian, Vegan, Vegetables, Asia, On the Blogs, How To, Light Food, Health & Medical
I eat a lot of tofu, not because I'm vegan/vegetarian and have to eat some sort of protein, but because tofu tastes good to me. (My being Asian and eating tofu all my life might have something to do with this, too.)
Now, it is just way too easy to pick up several blocks of tofu from the market for ninety-nine cents each, sometimes less when it's on sale, but if you have some time on your hands, you can...
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Fruit and ricotta - a good summer dessert
Filed under: Dessert, Vegetarian, Cheese, Fruit, Spirit of Summer, How To 
Several months ago, I discovered the deliciousness that is fruit spread with really good quality ricotta cheese. I discovered this by accident, during a tipsy evening with a friend when I inadvertently dipped an apple slice into the bowl of cheese. One taste and for the rest of the evening it was all we ate until the cheese was all gone.
One caveat is that this doesn't work with that grainy ricotta you get from the grocery store. You need to find the stuff that is...
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Food Porn: Squash Blossoms
Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Hors D'oeuvres, Snacks, Food Porn, Vegetarian, Vegetables, Cheese, Recipes, Frying, Spirit of Summer, On the Blogs, How To, America, Europe 
One of the things with which I have fallen in love in recent history is squash blossoms. When I first encountered these, I was slightly turned off by the idea of eating such giant flowers, even though I wasn't unfamiliar with edible flowers. It's just that the edible flowers I've eaten in the past have been small things...
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Eat like an ape - lose weight?
Filed under: British Isles, Science, Vegetarian, Grains, Vegetables, Nuts/seeds, Fruit, Television/Film, Europe, Health & Medical  Late last year, a TV production company filmed a new reality program in England. Nine volunteers set up camp in the Paignton Zoo in Devon, next to the ape house and for 12 days, ate like the apes did. This meant that they consumed nearly 11 pounds of fruits and vegetables a day as part of a three-day rotating diet that was designed by a nutritionist. They also were given small amounts of honey and nuts, and during the second week...
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Ratatouille from screen to table
Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Vegetarian, Vegetables, Recipes, Television/Film, Baking, On the Blogs, How To, America, Europe, France  On Sunday, in honor of the movie Ratatouille, Sarah posted a nice round up of ratatouille recipes from around the web. The next day, Deb from Smitten Kitchen, posted her own recipe for the dish, this one inspired directly by the ratatouille that Remy the rat created onscreen. Deb's version called to me, since it used the same layer technique that those Pixar magicians had made look so appealing.
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