Quicklinks
Posted by kathryn in Lifestyle, Dinners, Salads and Vegan
- Spinach with tomato & tofu: Lovely recipe from A Vegetarian in the Middle East teaming tofu with tomatoes and Indian spices. There are a few ingredients, mostly spices, but it’s a simple recipe. Thanks to A Life (Time) of Cooking for pointing it out to me.
- Eating to fuel exercise: I liked this piece from the Well blog about eating pre and post exercise. It’s a basic run-down of the issues, with some good practical advice and tips.
- The beginning of the end of civilisation? Has pre-prepared food gone too far now you can buy already boiled eggs? Oliver Thring asks what’s the most ridiculous packaged food you’ve come across?
- How convenient is convenience food? Interesting piece from Grist about convenience food. Are people not cooking because of lack of time or is it a sign of growing kitchen illiteracy?
- Cauliflower with dukkah: Lovely, lovely simple idea from La Boheme Cherie – cauliflower with spiced dukkah and yoghurt. Neat way of using up a cauli at the end of the week.
- Broad bean salad: I can’t get this salad from Girl Interrupted Eating out of my head. I mean, just look at it. Tasty, zesty, creamy and it uses broad beans. I can also imagine eating this with a bit of fresh avocado.
- How cooking was transformed into a spectator sport: New piece from Michael Pollan on the rise of cooking shows and the decline of actual cooking – Out of the kitchen, onto the couch.
Photograph by Jen Maiser.
31 July, 2009
Comments
Oh I have to try that cauli! Looks fab :)
Enjoying An Honest Kitchen too… excellent exxxxxxxcellent stuff!
Good stuff again, Kathryn. Thanks. Definitely want to try that broad bean salad with some garden fresh beans. The one after it — Roasted Aubergine, Courgettes, Tomatoes,Olives, Goats Cheese & Olive Salad —also looks delish.
THanks so much for the Michael Pollan article Kathryn – what an interesting article!
thanks for the links – I have just been mesmerised by the pollan article – wish we had more insightful commentary about food in the media
It’s funny that you mention ridiculous packaged foods. I’ve recently moved to Paris from Aus, and it’s been nearly impossible to find raw beetroots for sale (probably my favourite veg). They’re sold cooked and peeled here, and almost always shrink-wrapped in plastic.
Thanks for the link to the exercise food. I always find lunchtime fitness classes very awkward to eat around. I guess I need a box of nut bars to eat beforehand.
Shauna – thank you so much re AHK. Doesn’t the cauliflower look fantastic. I often roast cauliflower with spices – so figure this will be similar.
Elaine – I think the broad bean salad would be fantastic with fresh peas. I have some broad beans in my fridge, ready to be used – the first of the season and worth every bit of the fiddly double peeling.
Em & Johanna – isn’t the Michael Pollan article interesting. I love the way he provides a context to the changes in the way we eat (and cook). Found this one fascinating. Links in to some other stuff I’ve been reading on “kitchen illiteracy”.
Scarlet – I’m scandalised by the lack of raw beetroot in Paris. Surely one of those wonderful daily vegetable markets I always read about would have it??
Arwen – something small before your class is a very good idea. A couple of vitaweats with peanut butter, a small handful of nuts and dried fruit. Something to top up your blood sugar levels, without leaving you too full.
As far as pre-cooked food goes, it’s as old as the pyramids. If one person is working and hungry, someone else with some initiative is going to sell them something ready to eat. So, is either one of them bad, bad, bad? Is the world as we know it going to end? I don’t think so. I remember traveling through Asia and noticing how many people would habitually eat out. Literally outdoors, on the streets, at little cookstoves everywhere, providing everything from, yes, boiled salted eggs, to fried bananas. Aside from your standard restaurants, of course.
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