Posted in What's for Dinner, tagged Greens, Mexican, vegetarian on July 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fantastic dish i just learned from my friend, Rancho Gordo. He made it already twice in the last three days and i’m planning to do the same.
RG made it with watercress as the original idea suggested – i went with chard. There was not watercress in the store and in hindsight chard was no less [...]
Posted in What's for Dinner, tagged Greens, legumes, spanish, vegetarian on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wegmans started to carry nice organic legumes – got some split peas and chickpeas to try. Decided to make the chickpeas/spinach dish one can find in every spanish cookbook. My version came from Jose Andres. I made some changes in spicing – braised chickpeas with cloves and cinnamon. Didn’t use saffron, and forgot paprika (stupidly). [...]
Posted in What's for Dinner, tagged Greens, grits, Mexican, seafood on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I liked greens in Kennedy’s arroz verde so much so that i decided to use this to flavor grits. In fact, it sounded like the right thing to do. And even more than that – the sauce seemed a natural as a shrimp marinade. Don’t need to explain where shrimp came from – you know, [...]
Posted in What's for Dinner, tagged Greek, Greens, Healthy, What's for Dinner on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nothing much to say about this dish, i posted about it before: Braised Greens, Avgolemono Style.
So the main reason for posting would be a pretty picture – to break from a tyranny of comfort but brown food of several previous dinners.
Yet couple of things worth to note: added a thinly sliced fennel, for its [...]
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