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Got Tomatoes?

9/28/2014

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If you have lots of tomatoes and a free afternoon, homemade tomato sauce is a great cooking/football watching project.

I've done this twice and I now have three batches of fresh tomato sauce in the freezer, plus pasta sauce from round 2.

A good Sunday indeed.

Click here for the complete recipe.

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What's Cooking This Week--Summer Tomatoes

8/25/2014

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PictureTomatoes and Basil. Christmas in August.
Oh how we love our summer tomatoes. Meaty heirlooms, juicy grapes, sweet 1-millions and the always-reliable Early Girls.

They make us forget those mealy, tasteless hothouse weaklings of December. This week is all about tomatoes.

Meatless and Stove-less Monday
Summer tomatoes with balsamic vinegar and basil, fresh mozzarella, and toasted asiago bread. Eaten outside, this is pretty much a perfect summer dinner.

Breakfast Tuesday
Portuguese sausage, hash browns and eggs. With a side of sliced tomatoes topped with Hawaiian salt and pepper.Tastes like home.

PictureLettuce and tomatoes in the same season!
Wednesday
Tofu Tuna Salad, using the grape tomatoes and fresh lettuce from Grandma and Grandpa's garden. How they can grow both tomatoes (a hot summer crop) and lettuce (a winter garden veggie) in the same Very Small Space is a mystery to me.

Thursday
Fattaneh's Persian Eggplant Thing, with fresh eggplants,
trying it meatless with the rest of the asiago bread, and Lemon Chicken with some fresh lemons we have too. It's a weird combination, but I'm thinking this will work out well.

Friday
Gyros with, wait for it, fresh tomatoes.

For all of us with kids going back to school--good luck with the supplies/bills/carpools/soccer practice/piano lessons/meal planning!

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What's Cooking This Week--Meatless Twice

1/26/2014

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PicturePanini for Meatless Monday
Bonus Sunday
Meatball sandwiches. Originally slated planned for spaghetti and meatballs, as I made a big batch of of meatballs. The only noodles we had were chow-fun noodles. Not Going to Work. At All. Thankfully, we had mozzarella cheese and ciabatta.

Meatless Monday
Roasted Tomato and Eggplant Panini. Roast tomatoes and eggplant at the same time and then quick work for panini.

Tuesday
Spaghetti and Meatballs. After a trip to the grocery for pasta, with the leftover sauce and meatballs. With green salad and leftover bread from Sunday.

Meatless Wednesday
Falafel Stop. A happy discovery. It has been approved by my Israeli friends, who proclaim that it is similar to Tel Aviv street food. Feed two adults and a ravenous teenager for a little more than $20. It's meatless and yet everyone is happy. We even have leftovers for lunch. Soon they will also start serving meat (shawarma).
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Almost Meatless Thursday
Eggplant with Hot Garlic Sauce. Quick stir fry over rice. With just a smidge of pork.

Friday
Costco Chicken. It will be a long week. We need paper towels, TP and dinner.

Have a good week all!


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What's Cooking This Week For Real

1/19/2014

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PictureSend us some snow!
Last week was a blur with sending kids back to school both locally and not-so-locally.

Note to parents of college and high school-aged children
It Does Not Get Easier to see your bouncing baby (at least in your eyes) go solo through security and off and away.

And the corollary-- 
It's rather painful for the child at home because Teenage Boys Do Not Appreciate Being Smothered. At All.

So this mother is cooking and then sending a food care package, of course! Here's what's cooking this week.

Meatless Monday
Bought mushroom/artichoke pasta with pesto sauce. If it didn't come in a takeout container, it still counts as cooking.

Tuesday in the Oven
Mayonnaise Chicken, roasted tomatoes and roasted asparagus. Maximize the oven. Plus, the radiant heat carries over into where we watch TV. With store-bought jalapeno cheddar bread, pickled lemons from Israel and homemade pickled green beans.

Wednesday
Orange salsa pork chops, chard and jasmine rice. Another 1-pan dinner, plus rice cooker.

Thursday
Spicy turkey burgers and roasted sweet potatoes.

Mollusca Friday
Clam and canellini bean soup. And bread for sopping things up.

There may be some change-ups as I just noticed that this week is a little rice-light. Also trying to make homemade granola. It uses flaked coconut, so I hope not to set the oven on fire. Again.
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What's Cooking This Week--Whoa Wednesday!

8/14/2013

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What, Wednesday already?! As most of you know, I've taken on a Full-Time Professional Job. For which I commute to an office, five days a week. While I had been working full-time as a consultant, working as a full-time employee is Not The Same Thing.

Thankfully, the family has proven to be resilient and supportive of this opportunity, even though we are eating much later, and sometimes planning retroactively.
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Meatless Monday
Stuffed tomatoes, playing leftovers roulette. We had a bunch of tomatoes and a few basil leaves. We always have rice, so we cored out the tomatoes, cooked the rice with the tomato guts and basil, then mixed it with Parmesan cheese. Stuffed it back into the tomatoes and baked it til the rice got browned and a little crunchy. 
This needs a little work, but it is definitely on the right track.

Tuesday
Crispy roast pork from the Marina Market, rice and green beans. Easy and not quite takeout.

Wednesday
Japanese Chicken Curry. Won't taste like Japan, but won't be an 8 hour plane ride that requires ordering in a foreign language either.

Leftovers Thursday 
My Daddy's Killer Fried Rice using the leftover roast pork, leftover green beans from Tuesday and any leftover onions or carrots from Wednesday. Everything about fried rice makes me happy.

TGI Friday
I fully appreciate this phrase again. Panini with apricot jam, brie, turkey, strawberries and arugula. It sounds weird and almost hideous. It's going to be good.

Happy Wednesday everyone!

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What's Cooking This Week--Summer Tomatoes

8/4/2013

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PictureCelebrating Summer!
Finally, the summer tomatoes are in! Sweet 100s and the Early Girls are the most reliable, but in the Bay Area, all manner of warm, sweet tomatoes abound. Enjoy!

Meatless Monday
Sometimes, we like the comforts of "little kid" pasta. A simple meal of wagon wheels pasta with store-bought pesto, Parmesan cheese and roasted homegrown Sweet 100 cherry tomatoes. 

To be eaten outside. Aaah summer, even on a Monday.


Tuesday
Vietnamese grilled pork, sliced tomatoes with a shot of balsamic vinegar, edamame and rice. Finally a new recipe from that fancy place known as the Inn Ternet.

Wednesday
Tacos with no mix. Fresh tomatoes, or fresh tomato salsa if we get our act together.

Definitely Not Kosher Thursday
BLTs and BLC&T panini sandwiches. Because there are those days when you just need bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches. With sharp Cheddar cheese. At the same time.

Fish on Friday
Sick and Wrong Fish. We will miss Hawaii this summer, so Hawaii food needs to come to us.

Feels like summer. Tastes like summer. Have a great week!
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Miscellaneous Foraging

2/3/2013

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The cure for winter tomatoes
Go Niners! I can't even claim to be a hanger-on because this will be the first full NFL game that I have watched this season. And even then, I'm in it for the food and commercials. What to name that Budweiser horse?!

So instead, I made some long overdue additions to the site before the Superbowl starts. Both vegetarian too.

Tomato Tart 
We had this a in early January, and I've been tardy getting the recipe up.

Greek Pasta Salad
From the same week as Tomato Tart. Pasta, cukes, red peppers, tomatoes and feta and olives. It was supposed to include tuna, but I nixed it at my daughter's suggestion. Smart girl.

Li-hing Kettle Korn--homemade version
We received this as a Christmas gift and I found out just how easy it is to make at home. The kids and I ate the whole bag and so we'll have plenty for Superbowl Sunday. 30 seconds to do. Get the following:

1) Trader Joe's Kettle Korn
2) Li-hing powder

Pour kettle korn into a large bowl that has a lid, or a very large plastic bag. Sprinkle li-hing powder in. You can be a little more generous with the powder in this case. Shake it up. Eat. It will turn your fingers li-hing red, but you'll be happy.


Enjoy the game!

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Weekly Menu--New Year & New Recipes

1/7/2013

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Cleaned out the recipe/market research drawer
Most of us have been eating pretty heavy over the holidays. So I've made dinners for the first full week of back to work/school purposefully lighter and included new recipes from the New Year's magazine purge. 

Here's what we are eating this week. As a bonus, we are meatless TWICE. Not a lot of links yet, but will be posting the new recipes later this week.

Meatless Monday
Tofu Stir Fry. 
I tried it awhile ago with mixed results (see link and ugly photo). The original recipe is a beef stir-fry. However, over our recent vacation, we drove through Coalinga, CA, location of the endless field of Definitely-NOT-Free-Range-and-Not-Very-Likely-Grass-Fed cows. Thus, we are eating tofu.

Almost Meatless Tuesday
Corn Chowder, Take 3. This time using the combination of my mother-in-law's, Tyler Florence and the Barefoot Contessa, all people with serious cooking chops.

Wednesday
Chicken with onions, red peppers and maybe the rest of the snap peas from Monday. With a guava-lime glaze, from a Bon Appetit magazine, circa 2000. The original recipe is for kebabs, but it's winter, so it'll be baked. Complemented by My Very Own Namasu and rice.

Thursday
Greek Tuna Pasta Salad. Pasta tossed with cukes, red peppers, red onions, feta cheese, tuna, kalamata olives, and a little red wine vinegar. Genius! I should have thought of this years ago.

Definitely Meatless Friday
Tomato Tart, using puff pastry and fresh tomatoes. Blah-blah winter tomatoes go rah-rah when roasted with their friends garlic, onions and parmesan cheese. This should be good.

Happy New Year. Looking forward a great year. Any good resolutions for 2013?

Eat Well. Be Well.
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What's Cooking This Week--Vote!

11/5/2012

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Google "vote" to find your polling place
Even if it means crock-pot, freezer or takeout, make sure you get out and vote on Tuesday. I have already exercised my privilege as an American and voted and you should too. Whatever your politics, we live in an amazing and diverse country. 

Thank you also to those who have already donated $980 to the Feeding My Ohana Virtual Food Drive on behalf of Second Harvest Food Bank. The hardworking people at Second Harvest tell me they update results manually, so matching funds and weekend donations post slightly more slowly. Thank you to all who have donated thus far! 

With that, here's what's cooking this week. 


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Mmm, BBQ sliders.
Monday
Ground chicken with Chinese long beans stir-fried with black bean sauce and sriracha sauce. Bok choy with oyster sauce and rice. College kids: you don't need a recipe for this, just wing it.

Tuesday--Get out and
Vote!

Crock pot BBQ sliders. Sandwiches to watch the election results. And Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey, Phish Phood, and Imagine Whirled Peace, which is on sale this week. A low-maintenance dinner so we can de-construct election results whilst eating ice cream from the carton.

Wednesday
Somen salad. As you enjoy  80 degrees in November in California, please keep our 'back East' ohana in your thoughts.

Thursday
Thai Chicken Curry and rice. Cauliflower is coming into season!

Friday
Weekday Lasagne. A nice way to end the week.

Extras
Yoplait coconut yogurt, which I have for lunch with
Home-assembled trail mix: sesame sticks, cashews and dried raspberries
Perfectly hard-boiled eggs
Roasted tomatoes, with some late-season heirloom German Stripes I got at the Farmers' Market yesterday.

Eat Well. Be Well.

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A Virtual Care Package for a College Kid

9/24/2012

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Brown University, Providence, RI
This post is dedicated to all college kids (and a few in particular) who are now living the dream of off-campus apartment living. 

Ah, yes. The freedom of selecting exactly what you want to eat. No more mass-produced, pre-selected dorm food to be eaten at specified times.

The reality of which quickly becomes, "Oh (appropriate college-level profanity here)!? I have to cook! And wash dishes!? And buy food?! Hello, Mom!?" 

A friend of mine has a child is in just such a predicament, with two vegetarian roomies thrown in, just for some added fun. 


Do not despair, or worse yet, whine. Armed with a salad spinner, rice cooker, a non stick pan, a non-stick spatula and a baking sheet, you will neither starve nor burn through your parents' money eating out. 

Feeding Your Ohana 101: Staples you should always try to have in-house
Spices & Seasoners
Garlic. This makes everything better 
Coarse sea salt. Say no to refined salt
Black pepper. The kind you can grind on your own
Olive oil. For general-purpose cooking
Canola oil. For when you decide to fry something, and you will
Shoyu (soy sauce). Low-sodium, green label Kikkoman is my favorite
Roasted sesame seed oil. Dynasty or Kadoya brand
Oyster sauce
Sriracha sauce. Look for the rooster on the label. He is your friend.
White vinegar. Buy a gallon and you can also use it to clean your floors. When you clean them.
Balsamic vinegar. Impress your friends
Brown sugar. For homemade teriyaki sauce
White sugar. If you bake. A mom can dream!

Optional
Cooking sherry and ginger 
Generally non-perishable items
Onions. Technically perishable, but they last a long time and you will use them a lot
Rice. White or brown short grain, Koda Farms if you can 
Quinoa.That you can cook in your rice cooker
"Noodley" type pasta like linguine
"Shaped" pasta like penne, farfalle, or elbows
Nuts. Pine nuts, walnuts and cashews
Dried cranberries. Good to toss into salads
Bread. Add cheese and it's a sandwich

Perishable Items--stored in the fridge
Eggs
Real butter
Cheese. Parmesan and your favorite for sandwiches
Yogurt
Firm tofu. If you and your roomies can make peace with it
A bottle each of lime and lemon juice. Fresh are always preferable, but these are good to have on standby
What you can make with the above supplies plus a trip to the grocery store for fresh produce.
Vegetarian
Bri's Butternut Squash
Easy Roasted Asparagus 
Greek Salad
Onzo Salad
Quick Pasta Salad
Quinoa Salad
Roasted Tomatoes, so that you can make Panini
Spaghetti Sauce II--Jars
Spaghetti Sauce Pizza
Simple Spaghetti
Tofu Steaks

Not Vegetarian
Banish the Bottle Teriyaki Chicken
From Scratch Pork Loin 
Get a Costco Chicken (or two!)
Laurie's Chicken Salad Sandwiches



These can be vegetarian by leaving out the animals:
Leftover Mauna Lani Chicken Pasta Salad
My Daddy's Killer Fried Rice
Any Kine Quiche

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So whether you are Lions, Tigers or any-type-except-Golden-Bears, 

Cardinal, Crimson or Big Red--enjoy college.

Remember that if you have aluminum foil and an iron, you can make grilled cheese, and that snow banks are excellent temporary coolers.

Eat Well. Be Well. 

Study Hard. Play hard, but not too hard. After all, I'm still a mom!

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