Better than my mother’s oatmeal My mother was a good mother and she made us good hot bowls of oatmeal every winter morning and we hated it. Her oatmeal was terrible: gloppy stuff like jello. Then I got married, and my husband made oatmeal, and it was nothing like hers at all – this oatmeal …
Tag Archives: gluten-free
Gravlax (salmon)
A healthier replacement for ham and bacon Salmon’s way better for you than pork, and salty, fatty gravlax made from salmon is still way better for you than salty, fatty ham or bacon. But in many ways they serve the same function – in Eggs Benedict, for example, I usually replace the traditional ham with …
Zucchini eggs
Mediterranean Thyme The summer I spent on an archaeological dig on the island of Cyprus, digging up an Early Bronze Age village and cemetery, the hillside we worked on was covered with wild thyme bushes, as you can see in this picture. After smelling thyme all day long, all summer, I couldn’t face using thyme …
Vegetable soup
French cafeteria food As a child in France, I used to get this soup at least once a week in the school cantine as the appetizer for winter lunches. I loved it, and so did everyone else. How much better than just plain carrot sticks or boiled carrots! (For another yummy carrot recipe, try candied carrots.) How to …
Latkes with vegetables
Why use vegetables instead of potatoes? These have a lot more flavor than just potato latkes, and they’re less fattening too. My kids like vegetable latkes so much that I make them even when it’s not Hanukkah. I also often make them for company, when the company involves a lot of allergies and food restrictions, …
Unstuffed cabbage
Need something quick and hot? My grandmother’s stuffed cabbage is great if you were going to be home all day and want to spend a lot of that time cooking and watching a pot slowly simmer your stuffed cabbage into yummy goodness. But if you want something that tastes pretty much the same but you …
Twice baked potatoes
Cooking for Occupy Portland Last fall when I was cooking for Occupy Portland, we needed to make dinner for about a thousand people a night (no kidding!) with whatever jumble of ingredients people happened to have donated. One winner was these twice baked potatoes – they’re cheap, they’re easy to make, and they’re easy to …
Turnips au gratin
Why turnips and not potatoes? You could make this with potatoes, but turnips have much more flavor. And turnips have fewer calories, too. How to make turnips gratin: Preheat the oven to 350 F. Slice two large turnips very thin (about 1/8 inch thick). In a saucepan over medium heat, melt 1/4 stick of butter …
Trout with spinach
How to eat whole trout Once on a group tour of Sicily, we were at a lovely taverna and each of us got a whole trout for lunch. At the other tables, people just tore into their trouts, mixing the bones with the flesh and ending up unable to eat any of it. Very sad. …
Tomato soup
We had it at school… I let my kid get school lunch – just once! – and he came home raving about this great new meal he’d had at school, tomato soup with grilled cheese sandwiches. So I said I would make him tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches at home, and he was delighted. …