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• Kitchenista: Good Enough For a Potluck in Mumbai

  For the tastiest curries, I'm all for grinding and mixing your own spices, and pounding crisp aromatics into thick pastes using a mortar, pestle and all the seething anger that built up over the weekend. But sometimes, you just need to make dinner. For that, we go to whatever's in one of the jars that we have on hand. But that doesn't mean soup or spaghetti and sauce again. You can still have curry -- which, incidentally, I think are the most forgiving and easiest vegetable hiders, take that Ms. Seinfeld! -- and it's very easy. Like, 15 minutes from thought bubble to table. Read More... Posted Jan 14 2008, 02:32 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Seinfeld, healthy eating, eating, meal planning, vegetables, india, mealtime, sneaky mommy, snacks, kitchenista, curry, tastytaste, chicken, indian food, healthy fast food, jessica seinfeld, Meals Together, easy meals, chicken broth, spicy, potluck, spicy food, sneaky chef, Patak's, garbanzo beans, curry paste

• Kitchenista: Oh! Frittata!

  Yep, I love me some easy quick meals. As a work-at-home single mom-of-three there are countless days when I Just.Don't.Feel.Like.Cooking, and from the intensive study I've been performing, I can tell you that every parent, no matter the relationship or work status, has days like that too. Right? So. Anything with eggs is awesome (quick! nutritious! cheap!), but what's even better than breakfast-as-dinner is using leftovers AS dinner, repurposing them as something new. Which is why the frittata was invented, I'm pretty sure. Oh those frugal Italians!   Read More... Posted Dec 27 2007, 02:15 PM by Karen Murphy with | with no comments Filed under: 101 Cookbooks, kitchenista, fritatta, italian cooking, easy meals