As the new semester looms I am finishing up my class materials and doing some advance meal planning for busy weeknights. When you are tired and there is little time to cook, it is easy to fall into the carry-out trap, and I really want to avoid that as much as possible. This is a [...]
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Grilled Flat Iron Tacos with Sweet Pickled Onions
Those of you have have been reading along for a while know that I rarely post recipes for beef. The reason for this is simple: we only eat meat if we feel confident about the way the animals have been raised, and that rules out the vast majority of meat produced in this country. That’s [...]
Grilled Vegetable and Black Bean Tacos
This is the perfect time of year to make these easy grilled tacos–just grab what looks good from your garden or Farmers’ Market, grill it up, toss it together, and fill your tortillas. I promise no one will miss the meat. For this batch I grilled zucchini, sweet corn, and Anaheim chiles, then sliced them [...]
Shrimp and White Bean Tostadas
When the semester gets busy–which is pretty much immediately–I start to fall back on fast, easy to put together meals. Anything elaborate either happens on Sundays or is prepared by one of our favorite restaurants. One of my absolute favorite “fast food” meals is shrimp tacos or tostadas. They come together really quickly, taste wonderful, [...]
Curried Cabbage with Gulf Shrimp
It’s the time of year when meal planning revolves around “let’s see what shows up in the C.S.A. box and plan from there.” The beauty of this is that I love to invent meals based on what is on hand, and having a lot of fresh produce means we eat really well in late summer. [...]
Langoustine and Avocado Ceviche
Ceviche is one of my absolute favorite meals. At home I make it with any kind of fresh raw fish, scallops, shrimp, or this version with langoustines. Ceviche is really a cooking method more than a recipe, in that you are using an acid dressing to chemically cook the raw seafood. If this makes you [...]
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