Whole Foods 365 Brand: no-salt canned beans ==>express lunch

Whole Foods carries no-salt beans for a very decent $.69/can. When you are feeling extremely lazy, I recommend the following for a very filling, nutritious, fibrous, inexpensive and delicious lunch:

1/2 can of no-salt red kidney beans
1/2 can of no-salt cannellini beans
1/2 can of no-salt garbanzo beans
1/4 cup of olive-oil based salad dressing (I [...]

ain’t your mama’s Toor Dal: recipe & notes

(repost b/c of accidental deletion; first posted on 1/31/07)
One of my friends cooked me his toor dal. I was concerned that he simply stuck in some veggies into the toor dal without saute-ing or blanching those first, causing some texture issues. He told me it wasn’t as good as his mom’s, and he was just [...]

approximately Sailu’s adraki kebabs – less than $0.50 per serving

Well, I was reading Sailu’s Kitchen, including her entry on adraki palak kebabs. They sounded so good that I had to make it. So, I went to the supermarket and got a 5lb sack of potatoes. Here’s my rendition of Sailu’s adraki kebabs (note, these are not “palak” kebabs, because they are not made of [...]

Full Circle brand, and a little soapboxing from moi

My neighborhood fancy pants grocery store started carrying Full Circle products a few months back. And how did I live before that? Let’s see, I’ve bought Full Circle cappellini, soy milk, and dried pinto beans. All of these have been perfectly good quality (not just acceptable – but honestly good) at a very decent price [...]

the Rouge et Noir Yellow Buck Camembert of Marin Cheese Company: get it, or regret it (no rennet either)

OK, I’ll admit it. Sometimes I don’t just rely upon my own superior culinary judgement. In fact, sometimes I humble myself and ask for…gasp…directions!
Last fall, I accosted the cheese expert at the fancy-pants grocery while she peeled away the rind of what appeared to be an enormous Parmeggiano-Reggiano. In her opinion, the Yellow Buck Camembert [...]