Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

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Vegetarian

  • Get Your Freekeh On with Balsamic Mushrooms, Caramelized Onions, and Feta

    Get Your Freekeh On with Balsamic Mushrooms, Caramelized Onions, and Feta

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    Sometimes I do Q&As on Instagram and lots of people have been asking me lately how I shop for the week. The answer: I do a Supermarket Sweep every Monday at Cookbook in Echo Park. It’s a SuperMarket Sweep because you get the store to yourself, but you only get ten minutes, so you have…

  • Greek Stuffed Peppers

    Greek Stuffed Peppers

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    My podcast is having an effect on me. I had Jenni Konner on my second episode and she talked all about letting people into her kitchen during a dinner party, giving people tasks, sharing responsibilities. That’s the total opposite of what I normally do; normally, I get everything done hours ahead then just warm everything…

  • Grilled Cauliflower Steaks with Kumquat Olive Relish

    Grilled Cauliflower Steaks with Kumquat Olive Relish

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    What is grilling? Does it have to happen outside? Why? These are questions I often ask myself, especially since I’ve yet to be able to buy my dream grill (a Weber kettle drum charcoal grill) to begin my own grilling education. In the interim, I’ve read–in fact, I’ve written in my own cookbook–that you can…

  • Eggplant Dirty Rice

    Eggplant Dirty Rice

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    When I declared my pescatarianism last week, I was mostly being tongue-in-cheek because I was pretty sure it wouldn’t stick. I’m still not sure it’ll stick. But so far, it’s stuck, and at the same dinner party when I made that spring pea puree, I needed a vegetarian entree that would impress in a way…

  • Sweet Potato Curry

    Sweet Potato Curry

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    I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, a musical can be built around the poetry of Ezra Pound. Wait, that was a ridiculous line from last week’s Smash (as recapped, hilariously, by Rachel Shukert here). What I meant to say was: I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, it’s worth knowing…

  • Build Your Own Vegetable Curry

    Build Your Own Vegetable Curry

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    Healthy dinners don’t fare very well if you refer to them as healthy dinners. You might know in your head that it’s a healthy dinner, but if you call it that, forget about it, everyone at the table’s going to groan. So do what I do: package a healthy dinner inside a package everyone already…

  • Roasted Butternut Squash and Red Onion with Tahini and Za’atar

    Roasted Butternut Squash and Red Onion with Tahini and Za’atar

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    One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Or, to put it another way, I lost my round of The Piglet. Granted, there was no way I could ever have triumphed over Naomi Duguid’s brilliant Burma. She totally deserved her win. But I have to confess, I took great comfort the next day when Yotam Ottolenghi’s…

  • Lebanese Chickpea Stew

    Lebanese Chickpea Stew

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    The first post of 2013 has to be a winner–that’s a rule–and so it’s a huge relief to share with you a dish that I made for dinner the other night that’s such a winner, it portends very good things for the year to come. I’m at the point now where I can read a…

  • Rustic Vegetable Ragu

    Rustic Vegetable Ragu

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    Cooking without a recipe. How do you do it? You start with ingredients. My favorite way to do that is to open my refrigerator to see what’s there: on Friday night (when Craig was working late and his parents were flying in from Seattle) I saw carrots, I saw celery, I saw onions. I decided…

  • Hummus For Dinner

    Hummus For Dinner

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    Hummus is many things: a party snack, a sandwich filler, a way to use up leftover chickpeas. But dinner? Hummus for dinner? Preposterous! Hey: I understand where you’re coming from. Hummus is a glorified dip and who eats dip for dinner? But ever since I left New York, I’ve been missing my lunches at Hummus…