http://cook-food.org a manualfesto for easy, healthy, local eating Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:40:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This morning I made brunch with the Quilted crew, who it just so happens built this very website. Which makes it extra fun to blog our meal. I made french toast (recipe below) and tempeh bacon (recipe from Isa Chandra Moskowitz's awesome Vegan Brunch). Ben made vegan pancakes and tofu scramble. ... http://cook-food.org/2010/02/coconut-french-toast/ Ok, not TV TV. Internet TV. But still. I think it's pretty great. I had a fantastic time shooting this video for CHOW.com. We bantered and I flubbed many lines and had to say them again, and Leslie and Eric and Blake were supernice about it all. Plus we snacked ... http://cook-food.org/2010/02/im-on-tv/ Broccoli and Cauliflower with Lemon-Mustard-Chive Dressing This is another one that's endlessly expandable. As with the sweet potatoes, make however much you want. I like equal amounts of each veggie, but if you like one more than the other you should weight your dish in the direction of your favorite. It also ... http://cook-food.org/2009/11/thanksgiving-part-4/ My friend Debbie loves this so much that she convinces me to make it several times a year. It doesn't take much. Maple-Glazed Sweet Potatoes This is even more flexible, quantity-wise, than all the other recipes I've posted so far. You can make it any amount, from one potato to ten or ... http://cook-food.org/2009/11/thanksgiving-part-3/ I love stuffing perhaps more than any other holiday dish. Which is why I have never thought of it as something that has to be stuffed into anything, especially a meaty thing. Sometimes this confuses people. To them I say: embrace the unstuffed stuffing. Classic Sage Stuffing Like pretty much all my ... http://cook-food.org/2009/11/vegan-thanksgiving-part-2/ I've always been way into Thanksgiving. Instead of costumes, wasteful and expensive gift exchanges, or greeting-card-company-manufactured pressure to express sentiments according to the calendar rather than your own rhythm, it's a day to hang out with people you love and eat delicious food. (Yeah, I only wish Thanksgiving were totally ... http://cook-food.org/2009/11/thanksgiving-part-1/ Prentis Hemphill, a very smart person who guest-blogged about McDonalds and its evil ways a while back, now has his very own blog. You should read it. http://cook-food.org/2009/10/highly-recommended/ Ok, I realize that it is no longer Sunday, and, in fact, quite a few days have elapsed since it was Sunday. But I nonetheless would like to share with you my lovely lazy Sunday frittata experience. I went with my friend Erin to the farmers market, where we purchased chard, tofu, ... http://cook-food.org/2009/10/lazy-sunday-frittata/ By guest blogger P. Hemphill Like most, I boast a certain critical, literate eye for advertising—or, at the very least, it’s hard to surprise me. It’s rare that I find myself shocked at the depths corporations will go to appeal to our lowest common denominators and our collective fears, and to ... http://cook-food.org/2009/09/mcdonalds/ This morning my friends Erin and Janet and I were at the farmers market, but ridiculously didn't think to buy any ingredients to make into our morning meal. And by the time we got home we were rilly hungry. This is what I put together from things that were in ... http://cook-food.org/2009/09/improvised-breakfast-scramble/