Thanksgiving. America’s Feast Day. It was yesterday. Before I forget what my notes mean, here are two of the dishes whose recipes I’ve been tinkering with for years and now have just about settled on. We don’t eat meat, so we keep experimenting with the holiday meal — no turkey so the entree is one […]
Category: Kook Cooks
Candidly, the recipes are posted for my convenience, referring to the iPad in the kitchen. I’m sure you’d like them, too.
Recipes mainly. All are vegetarian, nearly all vegan, aka whole-food plant-based WFPB and, especially the recent ones, low to no oil.
The Last Irish Soda Bread Recipe
In Food Section World, this long-evolved Irish Soda Bread recipe would be published before St. Patrick’s Day. But in Brick World, I bake a loaf on St. Paddy’s, relying on collected recipes. Brick could schedule the recipe for March 16, 2013, but why wait? Every newspaper every year notes that the original of this quick […]
Economical Greek Yogurt, No Way? Whey.
Copyright 2011 Ben S. Pollock Though we who note the news have known about the Greek economic crisis for quite some time, it seems to have come to a head here in the first week of November. Maybe if Greece exported more of that sunny yogurt, the budget would teeter back a bit. But in […]
Mom’s Chili, If She Was Vegan
Here is Mom’s Spaghetti Sauce, circa 1970s (my sister kept the index card): Brown 1 pound ground beef, drain. Add 1 Tablespoon salt, half an onion chopped, half a stick of butter, 1 (large) can tomatoes cut up, and 1 large can (2 small cans) tomato paste. Cook covered in 275-degree oven 1 1/2 to […]
Savor Schnecken Like a Snail
My Reform Jewish family in Fort Smith, Arkansas, had schnecken for breakfast every Christmas. There was no recipe so every December in adulthood I’ve tried to recreate the childhood memory, with cookbooks, recollections of family and improvising. That was starting in my 20s. In my 30s, I also began cooking healthier. These cannot honestly be […]
Fried Soup
Copyright 2010 Ben S. Pollock This recipe was revised in October 2013. “Fried soup” was what I announced when I brought these to the table, what otherwise are called veggie croquettes, pancakes or burgers. When I try to make veggie burgers they fall apart. These held together and are as good or better than grocery […]