The Kitchen Chronicles

Adventures in City Cooking

Category: Side Dish (page 1 of 6)

Vinegared Kale Puree

Last weekend I didn’t cook. At all. Not a single thing! Instead of spending a full day in the kitchen, I spent two full days deep cleaning the main floor of my apartment. In the aftermath of this decision, my hands are a wreck from essentially soaking in Lysol for 30 hours (why didn’t I wear gloves?), there is not a speck of dust in the entire place, the floors are shiny and the apartment has a faint chemical smell that signals to anyone who enters that this is a home that has recently been cleaned within an inch of its life.

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Gratin of Zucchini, Rice and Onions with Cheese

Last week was really feeling like fall, and boy was I into it. But then this week we somehow rotated back into summer, and my bedroom air conditioner is back to work and it’s very confusing to figure out what to wear and it’s much too hot to turn on the oven.

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Long Beans with Roasted Sesame Seeds

Long beans, or snake beans, as they are sometimes called, are one of my favorite vegetables to pick up when I make a trip to Hong Kong Supermarket, the mecca of Asian ingredients on the corner of Hester and Elizabeth on the northern border of Chinatown. I like these beans because they taste good, of course, but if I’m being honest my affection for them has a lot to do with how comical they look. They’re green beans, but like 50 times longer. So long that you can’t just stick a bunch in your shopping bag, you need to curl the tops downward back into the bag. I just think they’re…funny.

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Braised Carrots with Capers

If there is one vegetable out there more maligned than poor cabbage (one of my favorite things to eat), it’s the cooked carrot. Somehow, raw carrots are something even the pickiest kid will eat with a scoop of hummus, but cooked carrots conjure images of the frozen vegetable medley on a particularly bad weeknight in your childhood.

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