giving thanks for tasty veggies

Hope you all had a lovely holiday and that you're recovering from your food comas (tofu-based, of course) nicely. The new recipe I tried out this year was Martha's recipe for yuppie-style green bean caserole. Look how pretty!


















The only part I wasn't so thrilled about was the making your own french onion rings for the top part. A nice idea in theory, but the result didn't seem worth the effort. Or maybe I was just annoyed because dinner was on the table and I was still frying stupid onion rings in the kitchen.



But! The casserole itself was great and an interesting departure from my other favorite souped-up (because it's canned-soup-free) version of the classic green bean casserole, which I'll post about later when I get around to making it.

Later this week you can look forward to a post in which I'll jump on the food blog bandwagon and try my hand at knead-free bread. My potluck guests will be so lucky.

Eh, Fuhgeddaboudit

Hillarious article over at the NY Times about the new "Brooklyn Style Pizza" from Dominoes, the ad campaign for which irks me to no end. The gall it takes to claim that a pizza company as craptastic as Dominoes could imitate the heavenly deliciousness of Totonno's or Grimaldi's is amazing to me.

My favorite quote is courtesy our Borough Prez:

"It’s a multinational right-wing company, mass marketing the Brooklyn attitude with obsolete ethnic stereotypes, not to mention flimsy crusts," he said through a spokesman.

Mr. Markowitz has yet to taste the Domino’s pizza. But that didn’t stop him from offering an opinion: “To our sophisticated palates, Domino’s is about as Brooklyn as Sara Lee Cheesecake is Junior’s.”

I love the dig about the crust thrown in there. Crust is really key.

And one more disturbing revelation from the article-- if you still needed a reason to avoid Domino's, here it is:

The right-wing reference is to Domino’s founder, Thomas S. Monaghan, who sold the company in 1998. He has supported the anti-abortion organization Operation Rescue and earlier this year announced his intention to build a town called Ave Maria in Florida based on strict Roman Catholic principles.

Eewwww. Very against our principles here at the Green Kitchen.

The Green Chef steps out of her kitchen...

... and onto her soapbox.

All I really have to say is:

Here is your goddam mandate, George. The slim lead in the House and soon to be confirmed lead in the Senate may not seem like much, but ousting an incumbent is not an easy thing to do, and Democrats managed to beat at least 15 incumbent Republican representatives and will probably have defeated 6 Republican senators once the votes are finalized. The majority of the Governorships in the country are now held by Democrats as well. I'd say America has spoken.

*steps off soapbox*

Actual food journaling coming soon as the holiday season approaches.