Looking through some pictures from last year’s Thanksgiving, I am realizing that I’ve been making more or less the same things for the past few years. I want to try something different this year, but I still haven’t decided. I’ve just discovered this amazing feature from last year’s NYT called Well’s Vegetarian Thanksgiving. I know it’s an year late, so this entry is about flashbacks. Also I’m planning on giving a go at this- Pumpkin-Pecan Pie with Whiskey Butter Sauce.
Speaking of flashbacks, some pictures from last year!
For the main dish, I’ve been making a few variations of Gourmet’s Vegetarian Shepherd’s Pie recipe for a few years. Last year’s was particularly celery root heavy, and I think it was preferred to the ones from previous years.
The next day I thought it might be fun to take a picture with some left overs. It tasted great, but after sitting in the table with boozed up silly people for a few hours the previous night, they kind of lost their good looks.
And some how, we ended up with 3 pies.
And for the highlight- at one point of the night, I asked my dear friend Rafael to take some pictures with my camera. This is what he left me with:
….thanks pal.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Cooking ideas for near future
gathered on a sleepless autumn night-
(img via 101cookbooks)
(img via tofufortwo)
(img via 101cookbooks)
(img via 101cookbooks)
I started out to make a list of recipes to try in the future, but then I immediately got bored, so this is it for now. Food blogs are hard to navigate. I’m only citing two sources. 101cookbooks, because all recipe blogs should be like 101 cookbooks, and Tofu for Two, because it’s the only really original food blog I’ve come across, and they should update. Also, Ina Garten should have a blog.
It’s despicably hot. In an attempt to reduce generating any more heat, I’ve been avoiding many things including leaving on the light, and turning on the stove and the rice cooker. Baking is out of question.
This leaves me very little options for food, but luckily, some of my favorite things only needs boiling water for heat. This year, the noodle party continues, but since I’ve ran out of my giant bag of miyeok (wakakame) from Korea a few days ago I’ve been making super quick pasta dishes. It’s my version of American college kids making ramen, so I don’t even feel like it counts as cooking. Thinking back, I’m having a hard time remembering the last time I cooked something. I think it was for a birthday lunch for Chris in late spring.
I wanted to make a proper birthday food for him, so I had him over with my favorite neighbors.
The miyeok soup actually turned out decently. Everything else was also super quick, and the bowl of peas belong to Luka. Having a giant bag of miyeok might take up a lot of room in the freezer, but it is a worthy investment for a lazy person like myself.
While my kitchen has been staying fairly clean, the garden however, has been filled with activities.
I’ve managed to transplant all the seedlings to the ground, or containers. Sometime last year I started buying big tin cans of olive oil so that I can use it as planters. After rust proofing, I planted some goji berry seedlings and covered the top with some rocks I picked up from the beach.
I got this crazy basil from Silver Heights Farm stand at the Union Square market. It smells and tastes a lot like Thai basil, ‘cept more beautiful in my opinion. I hope it produces a lot of seeds.
While considering options for additional containers, a stack of old skate decks in the house grabbed my attention. The diamond shaped was determined by the sun, rather than my aesthetic preference, so consequently, I’m less than thrilled. But I’m hoping that I’ll get to plant enough wild flowers around the edges to make it blend in better. We also sprinkled some grass seeds. And where ever we dig, we keep finding these bricks all over the place.
I have a feeling that the “lawn” will always have some bald spots, but at least now we can have super cute visitors roaming around a little more freely! These pictures are from mid May. Now the grasses are so long, still with patchy spots, resembling comb-overs on rainy days.
On the same spot in the dirt where Luka was sitting in spring, the wild flowers started growing, along with more weeds than I’m excited about. I’m just happy that something is growing at all.
I started growing corn as a wild experiment. It seems healthy so far, although I failed to spread them out. Another round of fertilization is in order- along with never ending weeding, transplanting, moving a container away from a shady spot, staking, mulching, but taking care of slugs before than so that they don’t get too comfortable under the mulch, and so on and on and on.
I’ve heard about some people who consider gardening to be a relaxing activity. I really would like to understand them.
Looking through some pictures from last year’s Thanksgiving, I am realizing that I’ve been making more or less the same things for the past few years. I want to try something different this year, but I still haven’t decided. I’ve just discovered this amazing feature from last year’s NYT called Well’s Vegetarian Thanksgiving. I know it’s an year late, so this entry is about flashbacks. Also I’m planning on giving a go at this- Pumpkin-Pecan Pie with Whiskey Butter Sauce.
Speaking of flashbacks, some pictures from last year!
For the main dish, I’ve been making a few variations of Gourmet’s Vegetarian Shepherd’s Pie recipe for a few years. Last year’s was particularly celery root heavy, and I think it was preferred to the ones from previous years.
The next day I thought it might be fun to take a picture with some left overs. It tasted great, but after sitting in the table with boozed up silly people for a few hours the previous night, they kind of lost their good looks.
And some how, we ended up with 3 pies.
And for the highlight- at one point of the night, I asked my dear friend Rafael to take some pictures with my camera. This is what he left me with:
….thanks pal.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Cooking ideas for near future
gathered on a sleepless autumn night-
(img via 101cookbooks)
(img via tofufortwo)
(img via 101cookbooks)
(img via 101cookbooks)
I started out to make a list of recipes to try in the future, but then I immediately got bored, so this is it for now. Food blogs are hard to navigate. I’m only citing two sources. 101cookbooks, because all recipe blogs should be like 101 cookbooks, and Tofu for Two, because it’s the only really original food blog I’ve come across, and they should update. Also, Ina Garten should have a blog.
It’s despicably hot. In an attempt to reduce generating any more heat, I’ve been avoiding many things including leaving on the light, and turning on the stove and the rice cooker. Baking is out of question.
This leaves me very little options for food, but luckily, some of my favorite things only needs boiling water for heat. This year, the noodle party continues, but since I’ve ran out of my giant bag of miyeok (wakakame) from Korea a few days ago I’ve been making super quick pasta dishes. It’s my version of American college kids making ramen, so I don’t even feel like it counts as cooking. Thinking back, I’m having a hard time remembering the last time I cooked something. I think it was for a birthday lunch for Chris in late spring.
I wanted to make a proper birthday food for him, so I had him over with my favorite neighbors.
The miyeok soup actually turned out decently. Everything else was also super quick, and the bowl of peas belong to Luka. Having a giant bag of miyeok might take up a lot of room in the freezer, but it is a worthy investment for a lazy person like myself.
While my kitchen has been staying fairly clean, the garden however, has been filled with activities.
I’ve managed to transplant all the seedlings to the ground, or containers. Sometime last year I started buying big tin cans of olive oil so that I can use it as planters. After rust proofing, I planted some goji berry seedlings and covered the top with some rocks I picked up from the beach.
I got this crazy basil from Silver Heights Farm stand at the Union Square market. It smells and tastes a lot like Thai basil, ‘cept more beautiful in my opinion. I hope it produces a lot of seeds.
While considering options for additional containers, a stack of old skate decks in the house grabbed my attention. The diamond shaped was determined by the sun, rather than my aesthetic preference, so consequently, I’m less than thrilled. But I’m hoping that I’ll get to plant enough wild flowers around the edges to make it blend in better. We also sprinkled some grass seeds. And where ever we dig, we keep finding these bricks all over the place.
I have a feeling that the “lawn” will always have some bald spots, but at least now we can have super cute visitors roaming around a little more freely! These pictures are from mid May. Now the grasses are so long, still with patchy spots, resembling comb-overs on rainy days.
On the same spot in the dirt where Luka was sitting in spring, the wild flowers started growing, along with more weeds than I’m excited about. I’m just happy that something is growing at all.
I started growing corn as a wild experiment. It seems healthy so far, although I failed to spread them out. Another round of fertilization is in order- along with never ending weeding, transplanting, moving a container away from a shady spot, staking, mulching, but taking care of slugs before than so that they don’t get too comfortable under the mulch, and so on and on and on.
I’ve heard about some people who consider gardening to be a relaxing activity. I really would like to understand them.
