Pre-Weekend Recipes

by Natasha Chart · 2009-02-27 13:08:00 UTC
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Getting ready for the weekend? As nebulous a concept as a weekend can seem when you work from home, (and nearly every day anyhow,) it's easier to get together with friends on the weekend so it still has some meaning. (Also, lots of things are closed. Grrr.) So if you're looking for delicious food to spring on the people you associate with on a voluntary basis, let me suggest these recipe sources ...

- Just Vegging Out is a new blog that the author's devoted to healthy living and picks and pans of vegan/vegetarian cuisine he's trying out. He gives Lightlife's faux-steak a thumbs down, and offers an excellent-sounding recipe for eggplant parmesan, which I may try soon with gluten-free bread crumbs. (We have an actual oven at the new apartment. SO excited!)

- And I can't eat any of this stuff, but the almond peach shortcake featured in Stephanie Ernst's food post for today looks simply scrumptious.

- For the unrepentant omnivores, the Grass Fed Party's roasted chateaubriand with mushroom and red wine sauce might be more your speed.

- Asinus Asinum Fricat at LaVidaLocavore posts an Ode to Rosemary, along with delicious tips for cooking rosemary-crusted fish and his grandmother's rosemary bread. You'll almost be able to smell the deliciousness by the end of the post.

- Stacey at Sustainable Table explains how to make your own yogurt. I so have to try this. A friend's mom used to offer a Persian yogurt drink (also: duq/duqh/doogh, pronounced like the word duke, except that the last consonant is more guttural) when I visited and I loved it, so I found a recipe for dugh which is very refreshing and delicious. I've never tried it with pepper, though, and recommend adding salt very slowly and tasting throughout. The version of this they serve in Afghan restaurants (Persian and Afghan cuisines are very similar, just as Farsi and Dari share a common linguistic root) is way too salty for my taste, and I would guess also for most Americans.

Enjoy!

Natasha Chart
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