This is a great salad. For two months out of the year we have a very hot house so we eat salads and everyone from Louisiana knows that spices can cool you down. I love this salad. The Dressing 1/2 cup oil3-4 Tbsp sweetener (brown sugar, honey, maple syrup or stevia)2 Tbsp finely grated ginger1/4…
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Chili Crisp
Is it sweet or hot? Surprising or comforting? Crisped onions, garlic, flaked chilies teased with brown sugar, ginger, soy, anise … whatever spice you like. Creamy sauces, cheese, toothy bread become more with a drizzle of this stuff. Keep in the fridge for two weeks, but you’ll use it up by then. Try it, adjust…
How dreams may actually work
OR, HOW TO MAKE THE BEST COLD DRIP COFFEE When you want to tackle your dreams or, say, unleash your inner gryphon for a bit, a spot of caffeine may be just the toe hold you need to launch into the air. My favorite rocket fuel is cold brewed coffee. FIRST, the surprisingly simple recipe…
not your everyday lunch salad
When you have a day job, you only have so much free time. To minimize the time I spend thinking about logistics, I do things like tie my keys to my belt loop, try to keep things in the same place and almost always have the same thing for lunch. After lo these many years…
A Less Ersatz Banh Mi
For the last couple of years, we’ve been trying to eat less meat. One of the places I missed meat most was in sandwiches. The problem is texture. Most meat dishes can’t be replicated because the texture isn’t right. During a visit to our eldest in NYC, we walked over the Brooklyn Bridge (God bless…
Curating fonts for the vegan agenda
We all know it will happen. Sooner or later, someone, somewhere, will become fed up with an overly doctrinaire vegan and go on a rant about The Vegan Agenda. Notice how simple italics can make an idea appear more legitimate. ‘Fed up’ is an apt phrase in this context because the angry fabulist will almost certainly…
Cafe sua da, veganized.
Vietnamese Iced Coffee – oh yes! I love cafe sua da, the traditional Vietnamese strong chicory coffee. iced, with condensed milk. In all its linguistic glory, the drink is called Cafe sữa đá, but we just say “su da.” Briefly, chicory has been used in coffee since at least the 18th century. The French brought…
A serious soup need not be deadly.
” There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, Whatever you are!” — from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol I spent a year trying to convince myself that some of the meat-based stews and soups I often cook were fine without meat. Vegan vegetable, hot and sour and cream of broccoli gave me no difficulty. Lentil soup and…
Sailing the Aegean it is not
As threatened, I am now giving the internet a fairly reasonable approximation of my favorite Greek restaurant’s salad dressing. The seventh, not the third time, is the charm. I can only assume the colloquialism was incorrectly translated from the original which must be Greek. The odyssey is more or less over. Who knew the secret…
these fine collapses @ desmonddahm.com 