The Sweets Life. Special Delivery by Eunice Macaulay & John Weldon. Sugar-and-spice candied nuts. I am, without a better way to put it, swimming in nuts.* Appalled by the price of nuts everywhere around here but insisting that it wasn’t going to keep me from baking with them, I asked my mother out in the ‘burbs — a place where people are less confident they can get away with swindling $9.99 for 1.25 cups of pecans — to see if she could do better.
She came back with fifteen pounds for about $30 from Costco, five of walnuts, five of pecan and five of almonds. It is, in a word, awesome. And yet, despite the fact that many of my favorite recipes involve them in one way or another, I had not made even the slightest dent in the almonds and only a paltry one in the pecans as of last week, and they’re taking up a lot of space in the pantry and freezer. (I believe this is called The Costco Effect.) These worked, and then some. I hope you all have wonderful New Years, merciful January 1sts and get everything you want, including that pony, in the 2009.
Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Mis)adventures in food: Greek recipes. Crispy Onion Rings Recipe - How to Make Crispy Onion Rings. Food - Recipes. Sweet Potato Kugel. Vegan Tzatziki Recipe - New York vegan. Vegetarian Journal Mar/Apr 96 Seitan. By Jill Nussinow, M.S., R.D.
Check out the recipes! I get blank stares when I ask my vegetarian cooking students if they've ever eaten seitan (say-tahn). Yet, hands go up when I ask if anybody has ever eaten mock chicken, beef, or pork in a Chinese vegetarian restaurant. The name is foreign but you may be more familiar with the product than you think. According to Barbara and Leonard Jacobs in their excellent book Cooking with Seitan, The Complete Vegetarian "Wheat-Meat" Cookbook, "seitan has been a staple food among vegetarian monks of China, Russian wheat farmers, peasants of Southeast Asia, and Mormons. Seitan is derived from the protein portion of wheat. Gluten can be flavored in a variety of ways. Luckily there are some shortcut methods for making gluten (see recipe) that make it a convenient food to prepare. For some, a safer first step is to purchase one of the commercially available mixes. Seitan's versatility lies in the myriad forms it assumes during the cooking process.
Can I Get the Onion Rings, Instead of the Fries? Onion rings have an odd place in American cuisine.
Everyone seems to love them, and they're on the menu at just about every burger joint in the country, yet their popularity as a side dish to meat on buns doesn't even come close to the venerable French fry. The reason is as obvious as it is annoying – they cost extra. Fries always come with the burger, but if you want those crispy, golden brown rings of pleasure, it's going to be $2.00 more. Sure you crave the crunchy goodness, but the thought of paying extra to upgrade a side dish at Big Bad Billy's Burgers and Beers seems downright un-American. So, as much as you may want them, and as much as you may fantasize about what a nice treat they'd be while standing in line, when you come belly to cash register, you just can't pull the trigger.
Well, I have good news – this onion rings recipe is so easy, and so amazingly crispy, you can now make up for all those years of deep-fried denial by making these at home.