Flash Cooking
11 April 2008 by
Jean Johnson
This meal isn't new with me. Most every inventive cook these days makes a version of this great dish. Every mouthful is so delicious. More it's a one-skillet flash cooked pull together.Still, as you can see it's so beautiful that I chose it for the cover shot on Beyond Measure. ...
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14 March 2008 by
Jean Johnson
At least I think there was a dance called the savoy shuffle back in the Roaring Twenties. At any rate, savoy cabbage is a whole lot more fun that regular old plain cabbage. If you find some of this crinkly, almost psychedelic cabbage there's no end to what you can ...
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29 February 2008 by
Jean Johnson
Thanks to Michelle for prompting this post. She looked at the Flash Cooking entry back in January and made the sensible connections: wok + green veggies = where's the tofu?
She's right, of course, tofu's a great protein source to pair with vegetables. Yet, in addition to buying seasonal produce, what's ...
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22 February 2008 by
Jean Johnson
"What do you do with that?" said Nicole, the deli manager at my neighborhood Fred Meyers. "We sell so much of it, but I've never known what people do with it."
"It's all the Norwegians that live here in Portland," I said. "They mostly eat it shaved thinly onto good dark ...
Posted in Cheese, Culti-Multi Food, Dinner, Fall, Flash Cooking, Innocent Sweets, Lunches, Salads, Ultrafast, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Winter | 3 Comments »
19 January 2008 by
Jean Johnson
It took 5 minutes to pull these vegetables together. There's carrots to sweeten things. Cabbage just because. Dark leafy greens since we're 'sposed to eat 'em. And a little onion, garlic, and leftover spaghetti squash--the trio I love so dearly.
The secret's high heat. And a cast iron wok that I ...
Posted in Beans, Cheese, Dinner, Fall, Flash Cooking, Sauces, Toppings, & Pestos, Scratch Cooking, Seasonal, Spring, Thrift, Ultrafast, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Whole Grains, Winter | 2 Comments »
23 October 2007 by
Jean Johnson
I came home from farmer's market table with 5 peaked bouquets of cilantro last Sunday. The first couple days I chopped up leaves for any number of meals, but then on a whim I made pesto.
If you're still buying jarred pesto, you might have a gander. It's so easy--and nothing ...
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15 October 2007 by
Jean Johnson
It's mid-October but the kitchen garden still giveth. Today there was broccoli, roasting ears, a couple small lonesome zucchinis, and a cartload of Anaheim chiles. Seemed like dinner to me.
All it took was a douse of water (which in truth was some cinnamon tea left in the teapot) in ...
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22 August 2007 by
Jean Johnson
My friend Denise brought me a golden winter squash that looks like a large zucchini. Since her family has both zuchs and pumpkins growing in their garden, we suspect that it got cross-pollinated. I've had similar mongrels from my own squash patch in past years and found them to be ...
Posted in Bioethics & Sustainability, Fall, Flash Cooking, Putting Up Food, Seasonal, Thrift, Ultrafast, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian | 2 Comments »
9 August 2007 by
Jean Johnson
I was thrilled to see Mark Bittman's Minimalist column (NYT) take a second run at what he terms ultrafast cooking. He originally thought his speedy ideas would be a hit for hot summer nights, but the 400 hits his blog got told him people are motivated by more than the ...
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