Category: Dinner

Shakshuka with Fennel and Feta

Fennel is a vegetable of mystery. I privately harbor the suspicion that thousands of them escaped the set of Toy Story only to hide among cabbages and watercress in your local supermarket. I needed one to play in the kitchen as a guitar, practicing for my Mardi Gras gigs this weekend at Tonic and Rochester […]

Radishes with Rosemary Brown Butter

How to radish, I mean ravish, your taste buds. Some vegetables, I’ve noticed, have yet to become trendy and cool. The radish might be the Fred Mertz of vegetables. I would imagine if a radish wore pants, they might be pulled up past his greens; a dork of a veggie. But cheap! The bunches for […]

Vegan Enchiladas

This is the story of a butternut squash who thought he was a pear. He grew up to be a vegan enchilada. I see a Pixar film somewhere in here. This is also the story of a lady who used to eat only Cheerios and hamburgers and made sour faces at dinner tables. She grew […]

Almost Dead Vegetable Soup

This soup is an opportunity to actually use all of the vegetables you have purchased because you believe deep down that you are a healthy person with pure intentions, but which you neglected for weeks to cook. Or perhaps you are going on a roadtrip and need to gut the fridge. I regret that I […]

Curried Kabocha Squash Soup

Currently on a season of night shifts, so dinner is my new breakfast. Hearty winter soup seems to fit that awkward role well. I don’t know how I lived before my Vitamix. For my birthday this year, Mom and Dad Ellis gifted the majestic machine that I do caress and canoodle like a new lover. […]

Gourmet Tubal Ligation and Cheese

I made this macaroni dish back in September, it must have been, and I completely forgot to post on it until today—when a postpartum tubal ligation reminded me. Fun fact, when you get your tubes tied, the little piece of fallopian tube that gets snipped out looks EXACTLY like a piece of macaroni. Except it’s […]

Thai Coconut Shrimp

Oh, the Polar Vortex. I feel like Scrat from Ice Age. I wish the ice would crack beneath me so that I may travel in a bug-eyed freefall to the other side of the earth, clutching an acorn, or in my case, maybe a loaf of bread. The equator would be a nice alternative to […]

Quinoa and Brown Rice Bowl with Vegetables and Tahini

Because this next week in obstetrics clinic I will spend ample time with things germinating, gestating, gesticulating, what have you, I decided to spend the weekend sprouting mung beans for the first time, see what the health food craze with germination is all about. Rumoredly, an adverb lazy people or tabloid journalists use, people who […]

Hungarian Sausage and Ale Stew

These are unfortunate times in the Midwest. My hair froze today as I was too impatient to wait for it to dry before heading to the car. KP contends that his nose hairs froze. According to my mother, “Frostbite is not a fashion statement.” Because of temperatures below twenty below, the state of Minnesota is […]