Yep, purple cauliflower. We were invited to a somewhat impromptu potluck the other day, and I was going to make an orzo gratin with a saffron cream sauce to use up the pasta from Thanksgiving, but then Sarina told me that the host was making pasta. I got off work at 2:45 and we wanted …
Recipe: Delicata Squash Stuffed with Orzo in a Sage Brown Butter Sauce
Delicata Squash Stuffed with Orzo in a Sage Brown Butter Sauce
This is the vegetarian entree I brought to our family Thanksgiving celebration at Sarina’s folks’ house. It was based on an early version of an entree that my friend Kit was testing at Cafe Flora. The first time I had a bite of it, it …
Review: Tamarind Tree Vietnamese Restaurant, Seattle, WA
Vegetarian Coconut Rice Cake at Tamarind Tree
Hidden in the back of a business complex in the Little Saigon neighborhood, tucked into an impossibly overstuffed parking lot, Tamarind Tree serves up the most sophisticated and tasty Vietnamese food in Seattle, and is very vegetarian friendly.
From the moment you walk in the door, you know you’ve …
The Joy of a Proper Spatula
Most spatulas suck.
This spatula, from LamsonSharp, emphatically does not suck.
It has a thin leading edge, so it slips right under your food without mauling it or ruining the crust. It is strong and flexible. It has nice, wide slots that allow oil or sauces to remain behind in the pan. It has a nice curve …
Recipe: Warm Winter Greens and Bread Salad
Warm Winter Greens and Bread Salad
This morning I had leftover braised greens in the fridge, from a dish I tested last week at Cafe Flora. They became one of those delicious breakfasts that kind of get composed while the frying pan is already heating, and you don’t really know what you are going to eat …
Product Review: Vitasoy Peppermint Chocolate Soymilk
Occasionally folks send me products that they think would be of interest to Herbivoracious readers. My standard for reviewing them is the same as if I tripped across them myself in the store: if it is so good that I would want to tell a friend to go out of their way to get it, …
Four. Thousand. Dollars. A. Pound.
Fresh White Truffles
Sarina spotted the news that DeLaurenti’s market, a superb Italian specialty store in Seattle’s Pike Place Market had received a shipment of white truffles. Oh, just one little thing. They cost $4000 dollars for a pound.
Now this isn’t actually as gruesome as it seems. That works out to something like $8 / gram, …
