Spicy Chickpea Pancakes (with green salad)

I eat this a lot.  Really.  When I am working, it is a rare week that I don’t eat  this at least once.  It is very easy, cheap, healthful and delicious.  The recipe for Chick-Pea Crepes with Ginger and Hot Chilies is from Classic Indian Vegetarian Cooking by Julie Sahni.  My friend Gayathri was impressed…

Ride Your Bike to Coney Island Salad

The salad was inspired by one that I ate at Diner in Williamsburg one early afternoon while rather hung over.  It made me feel better.   I started making it a lot.  One morning, Silvi and I ate this salad for breakfast once and then rode our bike’s from Queens to Coney Island.  For those…

Dinner July 31st, 2010

This is actually a dinner that I have made a lot this summer because it is cheap and I can get all of these ingredients in my neighborhood.  I made it for 40 puppeteers during the Toy Theater Festival and then decided that I wanted to eat it all the time. CHIPOTLE BLACK BEANS a…

Silvi’s Salad

I planted lots of lettuce this spring, in the hopes that it would inspire me to make more salads. It worked. Here’s what I put in my salad today. It was particularly tasty… 1/2 bunch spinach, chopped ~7 medium-size red chard leaves, leaves chopped into ribbons, stems chopped 1/2 bunch watercress, chopped (stems included) good…