Ginger Chicken with Shimeji Mushrooms, Hericot Verts, and Onions with Rice, Potatoes, a Fish Cake, and Seaweed Salad. Healthy, organic, well-balance, and delicious…..as usual. All done for $5.45 per person. I think in the future I’ll refrain from giving you minute details or full-on recipes. If you want to know anything, leave me a comment [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Ginger Chicken
Posted in Home Cooking, poultry, tagged chicken, farmers, fish cake, ginger, healthy, hericot verts, organic, seaweed salad, shimeji on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Plank your Salmon
Posted in Home Cooking, seafood, tagged cedar plank, chicago, cook at home, extra virgin olive oil, fish, grill, healthy, isaacson & stein fish company, organic, roasted pepper, salmon, soba, stanley's, stock, thai basil on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The other night I made another finance-efficient dinner that tasted outstanding; Cedar Plank Grilled Salmon with Soba Noodles, Roasted Orange Pepper, Pea Pods, and Shitake-Green Onion Salsa. Simple, well-balanced, healthy, organic, and delish! I got the salmon at Isaacson & Stein Fish Company. It was wild caught at $9.95 per pound. Between my wife and I [...]
Lasagna debunked
Posted in Home Cooking, tagged american, belize, budget, chicago, coke, duodenum, iron chef, italy, japan, japanese, jewish, kyoto, lasagna, organic, sean connery, tokyo on July 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So, someone talked me about yesterday’s post. “Lasagna, what’s the big deal?” I know, it’s a very basic dish. I really just wanted to show that good, well-rounded, organic meals can be whipped up on a budget. I’m going to continue showing different ideas in the future as well. At any rate, there is a reason [...]
Cheap, healthy eats
Posted in Home Cooking, poultry, tagged antibiotic, back porch garden, basil, bechemel, big farm industry, big food industry, bread, carbs, chicago, chicken thigh, dessert, fat, five dollar footlong, fresh, grocers, heart healthy, hormone, lasagna, livestock, michael pollan, nutritionist, olympic meat, organic, parmesian, pasta sauce, processed food, shekels, skirt steak, stanley's, supplements, tomato sauce, unemployed, unsaturated fat, whole foods, zucchini on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One thing that being unemployed is teaching me is that you don’t have to spend a lot of money in order to eat right. To me, eating right doesn’t mean counting carbs, or taking supplements, or any of that nutritionist crap (I’m a believer in Michael Pollan). There’s nothing wrong with eating animal fat, or [...]
Freshness Guaranteed
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged basil, big agriculture, chemicals, chicago, egglant, fire exit, fruits, garden, global warming, herbs, japanese, nutrient, organic, pesticides, polluting, porch, soil, spicy, thai, tomato, tomatoes, veggies on July 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I wish more people would utilize their outdoor spaces more efficiently. I know that outdoor space is precious in cities like Chicago, but look here at what my wife and I did. Our space is only 3.5 feet by 5.5 feet. Since it’s also one of two exits there must be a clear path according [...]
