cilantro

Spicy Cauliflower with Cilantro Dressing

August 25, 2010

A local Indian restaurant makes an addictive appetizer — bite-sized vegetables dipped in a spicy chickpea batter, deep fried and served with a cilantro dipping sauce. Whenever Andrew and I dine there, I pluck all the cauliflower florets from the plate and eat them myself. Since he doesn’t like cauliflower, it’s a pretty good system. [...]

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Peach and Black Bean Salsa

September 14, 2009

The subtitle of this post could be Variations on a Theme. Brahms did it with classical music, William Carlos Williams did it with poetry and I’m doing it with salsa. And peaches. And more homegrown tomatoes. Now, I’m not claiming to be in the same league as the artistic greats just mentioned, but I must [...]

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Cilantro and Summer Fest

July 30, 2009

Seems it’s the social season for blogs. Yesterday I was stacking eggplant for a virtual potluck, and today I’m arriving fashionably late for Summer Fest, a four-week celebration of the bounty where bloggers share their tips, tricks and recipes about fresh-from-the-garden foods. I found out about this thanks to Julie Van Rosendaal, cookbook author and [...]

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Avocado Oil

February 18, 2009

Avocado photo © Simon Goldenberg. Published under a creative commons license. In the movie Oh, God! George Burns, as The Almighty, admits the avocado might have been his one mistake. He made the pit too big. While I appreciate the creation of avocados, I do wonder about the wisdom of such a gargantuan pit. A [...]

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