Quicklinks
Posted by kathryn in Ethics & Sustainablity and Dinners
- Baked sweet potato: After my post about baked potatoes, Dietgirl left a comment linking to this post on Traveler’s Lunchbox. It’s a recipe for roasted sweet potato with a spicy olive and fetta salad – and it looks fantastic.
- Do you have a scale addiction? If you’re trying to lose weight, weighing yourself more than once a week is counter-productive. Yoni Freedhoff from Weighty Matters counsels against scale addiction.
- Two miso recipes: Miso is one of those ingredients many people just don’t know what to do with. This week I spotted two lovely recipes, which use miso in the sauce or dressing. First up is Mark Bittman’s pork chops cooked in a miso and red wine sauce, which would be delicious with some steamed broccolini and green beans. And the second is Heidi’s walnut miso noodles. Delicious.
- April Fools: Pizza Hut doesn’t very often get mentioned on Limes & Lycopene, but I did like their UK-based April Fool – portrait pizzas.
- Tomato recipes: We’re nearing the end of tomato season over here. But I’m still able to buy bags of beautiful, ripe and sweet tomatoes. They’re a bit misshapen, but boy the taste is good. There are some really useful recipes in this tomato collection from the NY Times_. I particularly like the pasta with cherry tomatoes and rocket?r=1.
- Cooking at home?: At The Times Caroline Bretherton asks a good question how do you keep home meals interesting week in, week out? It’s a regular discussion I have with clients, who get into a pattern and then continue repeating that for weeks, only to get bored. What do you do to keep your home food interesting?
- 10 things about food: While researching the new Rough Guide to Food the writers came across some unsettling facts about the food we eat. Their article is called ten things we didn’t know about food.
Photograph by Bashed.
04 April, 2009
Comments
To make meals interesting, I suppose it helps if you are interested in food, and in eating meals that are healthy and taste good. However, in the days when I had a small child and not much money, I started planning the week’s meals before I went shopping. That way, I was sure that I used up leftovers, and that we had a balanced diet. These days, I tend to base the meals around the vegetables that are in season and looking delicious. With the internet readily available to most people, a recipe idea for the fresh vegetables you just brought home is only a short search away.
To keep meals interesting, every week I choose a recipe and my husband chooses a recipe. We rarely repeat. But if I cook once and he cooks once and we each double the recipe, it’s quite time efficient. The other nights we eat leftovers. This way we can try lots of new things!
Tomato recipes!! I can’t wait until we have them here in the States!
It’s interesting that both Times articles mentioned that people in the UK are cooking at home to save money. I wonder if it will change people’s habits in the long term.
that recipe from the Traveler’s Lunchbox sounds wonderful; it might be a little more portable ( to my mind clunk-able) by using sweet potatoes cooked in the manner we do in our family.
This is similiar to the recipe for potato wedges you have on your blog:
Oven to 400*
Slice sw potatoes length-wise, they should not be too thick. Toss with olive oil and lemon, lime juice or balsamic vinegar.
Sprinkle with cumin, salt and pepper and for heat add crushed red pepper flakes or chili powder.
Toss and again add spices til lightly coated.
Turn onto cookie sheets.
Cook til soft inside and crispy not brown, outside.
The spices can be varied to suit your own taste and menu ie for Mex add fresh chopped coriander before/after cooking and lime juice.
Indian- add curry, lime and basil or toss with a thinned curry paste
Maura – lovely idea for sweet potato wedges, thank you for posting that. I especially like the thought of the balsamic and citrus juices. Yum. I’ll have to try this out myself very soon. Thank you.
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