Vegetables
15 January 2012 by
Jean Johnson
Feel like a poem picture? Here are lines from Tom Robbins fleshed out with my photos.
"The beet is the most intense of vegetables.
The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion.
Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there ...
Posted in Food Thoughts, Playing with Your Food, Vegetables, Vegetarian | 1 Comment »
21 July 2011 by
Jean Johnson
Letting the seasons change what's on your plate is such a groove. Tonight it took the form of flash cooking a just-pulled cippolini onion from last fall's planting, a minced clove of garlic, whole sugar snaps, a green and yellow zucc sliced off on the diagonal, and a chop of ...
Posted in Dinner, Food Thoughts, Health and Wellness, Lunches, Recipes, Seasonal, Sides, Soups, Thrift, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Whole Grains | 2 Comments »
19 May 2011 by
Jean Johnson
One bowl meals. It's how to turn gorgeous food out on a dime. A dime of both time and money.
In this case, there were leftover French lentils and quinoa in the fridge--so into the bowl they went with some jarred roasted red peppers, a pear from the season's end, and ...
Posted in Dinner, Family, Friends, & Love, Flash Cooking, Food Politics, Processed Food, Salads, Spices, Spring, Thrift, Vegan, Vegetables, Whole Grains | 1 Comment »
4 January 2011 by
Jean Johnson
Mainstream food writers at the Oregonian dismissed spaghetti squash as bland and boring in an article on winter squashes. Too bad they missed the point, but then that's what happens as long as you're looking at things from the Standard American Perspective--which in the case of food is widely known ...
Posted in Flavor, Getting on a Roll, Leftovers, Measurefree Cooking, Playing with Your Food, Salads, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Winter | 4 Comments »
20 December 2010 by
Jean Johnson
So far so good. I've still not bought fresh produce (except pomegranates, lemons, and some Clementines) and since the slim garden days of last spring. It's getting to be slim pickins' for sure given Portland's November snow storm that way laid my broccoli and gave the kale and cabbage a ...
Posted in Fish, Fresh Herbs, Kitchen Garden Thoughts, Salads, Scratch Cooking, Seasonal, Seasons, Soups, Thrift, Ultrafast, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Winter | 6 Comments »
20 October 2010 by
Jean Johnson
Yes, I know the lastavera doesn't quite work since vera means spring in Italian. But hey, it's close, and it conveys so well the idea of using vegetables the fall harvest brings through the door. A few posts ago I was lastavering with a grain salad. This time it's with ...
Posted in Bioethics & Sustainability, Culti-Multi Food, Fall, Food Thoughts, Fresh, Fresh Fruits and Vegetables, Health and Wellness, Kitchen Tips, Organic GMO Free Corn, Ratios, Recipes, Scratch Cooking, Seasonal, Seasons, The Cook Counts To, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Video | Add a Comment »
10 September 2010 by
Jean Johnson
Not too much longer to revel in the world of harvest, so I hope you can score on some eggplants for this great spin on pizza pie. It's a great way to use the last of the coals after you've grilled, and the next day it's a breeze for the ...
Posted in Recipes, Seasonal, Summer, The Cook Counts To, Vegetables | Add a Comment »
16 June 2010 by
Jean Johnson
Flash cooking continues to attract people to my work. I'm glad because it's the heart of what my measure free, seasonal, sustainable message is about.
So here you go.
In these vids I show how to
Turn the burner on high with a puddle of water.
Put your rustically chopped veggies in, ...
Posted in Beans, Bioethics & Sustainability, Dinner, Equipment, Flash Cooking, Flavor, Food Thoughts, Fresh, Health and Wellness, Measurefree Cooking, Playing with Your Food, Scratch Cooking, Seasonal, The Cook Counts To, Thrift, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Video | 9 Comments »
30 May 2010 by
Jean Johnson
If you have Hippie Kitchen you'll see this picture on page 52. I choose to show off the fava beans in their pods rather than the actual dish because they have been so maligned. Typical instructions in American cookbooks are to do not pass go and double peel the beans--first ...
Posted in Beans, Flash Cooking, Getting on a Roll, Lunches, Recipes, Salads, Scratch Cooking, Seasonal, Sides, Spring, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian | Add a Comment »
6 May 2010 by
Jean Johnson
This is verbatim from Grow Your Own, the third in my measurefree kitchen companion trilogy that comes out this November.
Laurel Robertson, who wrote Laurel’s Kitchen with Carol Flinders, is some kind of woman. This salad is adapted from their pages where they titled it “Astonishing.” I’ve made it many ...
Posted in Breads and Such, Family, Friends, & Love, Lunches, Salads, Scratch Cooking, Spring, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Winter | 3 Comments »