Got a lotta zucchini? If you’re tired of stuffed zucchini and stir-fried zucchini and everything else zucchini – and especially if you have some sauteed zucchini left over from another night – this is a happy new way to eat up all that zucchini. If the zucchini’s already cooked, this galette doesn’t take long, is …
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Falafel
Now that I’ve made it, I can see why falafel was so popular in the Islamic world, where cooking fuel was expensive! This is a way to cook beans that requires almost no fuel, as opposed to boiling them where you have to keep a hot fire going for a couple of hours. How to …
Egg Salad
Easter Eggs Do you hard-boil your Easter Eggs? At my house we always blew ours out, so we could make the eggs into matzobrei, and keep the eggs forever (or until we smashed them). But if you hard-boil at your house, well, that’s what egg salad sandwiches are for. You can also use the eggs to …
Cucumber soup
Cucumbers for snack It’s very hot in North Africa in July, and Tunisian women spend most of their time behind the thick high walls of their courtyards, lying down on mats in the shade and fanning each other. The women’s usual snack, all over our village, was cold cucumber sticks, sometimes salted and sometimes plain. …
Couscous
Embarrassing Cooking Moments, Take 1: I’m spending the summer in Tunisia, and I’m cooking couscous for my family, because that’s mainly what people eat in Tunisia. So I’m boiling water and couscous in a saucepan, and our landlady, Zachia, walks in, and she thinks it’s so funny that I’m boiling couscous instead of steaming it. …
Corn pancakes
Breakfast for dinner Sometimes, you just don’t feel like regular dinner stuff for dinner. Maybe everyone’s tired. Maybe you just want something sweet. Or it needs to be really really cheap. Maybe you’re just looking for another way to eat sweet corn while it’s still in season. Those nights, we have corn pancakes. How to …
Cornmeal crust pizza
Inspired by Dove Vivi Pizza in Portland Dove Vivi pizza near my house makes incredible gluten-free vegan cornmeal crust pizza. Naturally they don’t give out the recipe, but this seems to be a pretty good imitation, if you don’t live near Dove Vivi or just want to stay at home. It’s quick and easy, anyway. …
Chili and cornbread
American Food My teenagers complain that I make hippie food and not American food, so this is an effort to make something their friends will recognize when they decide to stay for dinner. But without any processed foods, sugar, or meat in it. The friends liked it anyway. How to make chili and cornbread: In …
Chickpea crepes
Why chickpea flour? You could just make wheat flour crepes, but these chickpea flour crepes are not much harder and have a lot more flavor. Plus, they don’t have any gluten, so if you’re cooking for a vegetarian with a gluten allergy, this is a good direction to go in. How to make chickpea crepes: …
Chicken pot pie
Frozen Banquet Pies or make at home? Everyone loves those cheap frozen Banquet chicken pot pies – my mother used to make them for us as treats, and my kids love them too. But they do take a pretty long time to make, if you need five or six of them, even now that you …