I no longer remember why I thought it was a good idea to make mole, but J. was totally into it. In fact, it was more his project than mine! And J. is much more conscientious than I am about actually following recipes, so I was thinking of not blogging it at all. However, this […]
I was gonna get around to this anyway… someday… but since I had an actual request, I thought I ought to hurry up and post about this coconut rice. Like a lot of recipes in my Indian cookbook, it is a two-parter requiring both a saucepan and a frying pan. I routinely cut it in […]
This actually springs from a two-recipe meal, but I’m writing it up in two posts out of impatience. In that pic, you should be able to see delicious lentil dal with spinach as well as coconut rice pilaf and an eggplant-yogurt “salad,” all from my Indian vegetarian cookbook. (We’re still on a pilaf kick around […]
Up until recently, it was so hot that I actually looked for ways to avoid turning on the oven. (Turns out that you can make baked tofu in a crock pot.) The weather let up a little this week, but not before the LA Times published a coleslaw article. And not boring old cabbage-and-mayo coleslaws […]
Never let them tell you that Kogi and its ilk are LA’s only street food. Until they showed up, as far as I can tell, LA’s street food was 100% Hispanic-operated. It includes the pico de gallo/fruit carts, the ice cream pushcart guys, roving taco trucks and these guys — the bacon-wrapped hot dog people. […]
