Cooking from scratch People used to always encourage me to make tacos – the kids love tacos – but I never did because people meant for me to buy canned refried beans and pre-made tortillas and that’s not cooking, it’s just assembling. But then I thought, I’ll try making my own refried beans and tortillas. …
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Stuffed cabbage
Grandma’s Scientific Recipe You might think my grandma’s recipe for stuffed cabbage was probably ancient, handed down from her grandmother’s grandmother. Cabbage, right? It’s been around forever? Well, yes, but surely rice and tomatoes and green peppers weren’t actually so common in medieval Lithuania? And actually her recipe called for canned tomato paste, which wasn’t …
Potato samosas
“I don’t eat vegan food” I first made these potato and pea samosas to bring down to Portland’s occupation, one night soon after we’d been evicted. There wasn’t much in the way of silverware or plates in the park where people were gathering, so I brought samosas people could eat in their hands. Hot, filling …