I went out to check out some galleries in Chelsea tonight and found some coffee, tea, milk, hot chocolate and oatmeal in the street. On the way home I met my friend who gave me her pass to the Armory show, which I’m going to try to check out tomorrow. I also got a reply… Read More March 7, 2019
In early December, I posted about making strained yogurt, in which I discussed having some whey leftover. I wanted to make ricotta, but 2.5 cups of whey would yield less than 2 oz of ricotta. I also found 24 oz of ricotta shortly after. A reader suggested I use the whey to brew blaand, a… Read More Blaand: Milk Wine
After picking up a couple boxes of doorknobs somebody was giving away on Craigslist we wound up at our first spot an hour early, and by pure luck found that the trash was also being put out an hour early, in order to clear the street for filming. We were able to quickly amass a… Read More March 4, 2019
Since I had found a full package of pepperoni as well as a log of sliced mozzarella at the same time, the obvious conclusion was to make pizza. Since I have more than enough of the basic ingredients to make a crust, the only missing ingredient was the sauce. I roughly followed this recipe by… Read More Pepperoni Pizza
Watercress is a great all-purpose green that can be eaten raw or cooked, and I used to buy it regularly until I found a cheap source of arugula which can be used similarly. Normally if I found a bag of watercress I would want to use it for sandwiches and salads, but since I also… Read More Watercress Soup
Last night went well and we got a lot of nice stuff. We thought we’d gotten about 12 lbs of chicken breasts, as well, only to find when we got back to the house that they smelled terrible. We found a couple of nice pesto, mozzarella and prosciutto sandwiches on baguettes and ate them that… Read More February 25, 2019
This one’s pretty simple. I found a box of frozen carrot spirals this week and wanted to make a quick dinner, so I sauteed a couple of cloves of garlic in a few tablespoons of olive oil, then added the block of noodles and cooked covered, turning occasionally, until they were thawed, which took about… Read More Garlic Parmesan Carrot Noodles
This is a recipe that my ex-boyfriend learned from his parents, who learned it while they were in the Peace Corps in Kenya. He never gave this dish a name, but based on some quick research I can guess this is a simple variation of Sukuma Wiki. It goes well with fish and rice or… Read More Kale and Tomatoes
This week I found a bottle of enchilada sauce and spent a while trying to figure out what to do with it. Then I thought, why not just make enchiladas? I wasn’t totally clear on what an enchilada was except for something my ex-boyfriend in Florida had at Taco Bell once: a burrito, but in… Read More Turkey Enchiladas
A friend recommended this soup recipe immediately after I’d found a head of cauliflower, and if not for his praise of it I would have dismissed cauliflower soup as some kind of bland mush you eat on a fad diet. Of course, it’s not just boiled cauliflower. Half of the cauliflower is roasted and then… Read More Cauliflower Coconut Soup
Good Dumpster Cooking 