http://www.foodwebdirectory.com Food Web Directory Thu, 15 May 2008 15:34:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Note to self: a bowl of curry is perfect this time of year. A fact that annually slips my mind. If I'm not careful March, April and May can slip right by without a single pot making an appearance at my table. Not this year. Today we enjoyed a bowl ... http://www.foodwebdirectory.com/food-web-directory/in-a-hurry-green-curry/ In a follow-up to my earlier post asking for help locating my mentally disabled, epileptic relative, I wanted to let everyone know that he was located on Monday morning in a San Francisco hospital and should be fine. His brother Jim Lamascus stated, “Bobby Joe Lamascus is safe in the hospital, ... http://www.foodwebdirectory.com/food-web-directory/missing-relative-found/ I might be getting ahead of myself (it's only May after all), but I suspect I've discovered what will become my favorite cookbook of the year. Written by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi, Ottolenghi: The Cookbook is a collection of 140 recipes from the hugely popular UK-based Ottolenghi establishments. This ... http://www.foodwebdirectory.com/food-web-directory/ottolenghi-red-rice-and-quinoa/ Sorry to interrupt the normal lunch focus of this blog, but I have a plea for San Francisco locals. I just heard that a mentally disabled relative went missing after he went to the bathroom during a group home field trip to San Francisco’s Japantown on Thursday May 8, 2008 ... http://www.foodwebdirectory.com/food-web-directory/urgent-my-relative-missing-in-sf-japantown/ Not all dishes fare well cool or at room temperature. Just imagine Sloppy Joe filling eaten cold — congealed and nasty. Because there are no microwave ovens at my son’s preschool or at the park, I like to have a thermal food jar or thermal lunch jar on hand to ... http://www.foodwebdirectory.com/food-web-directory/ma-po-tofu-and-sloppy-joe-lunches/ Serve me this soup daily for lunch and you'll hear no complaints. Tender, translucent pasta pillows, pale green from their pea-stuffed bellies, are buoyed by yellow lentils in a simple clear broth. Golden puddles of olive oil are suspended across the surface, pooling in various cracks and crevices. Your lips ... http://www.foodwebdirectory.com/food-web-directory/big-slurp-dumpling-soup/ Don’t be alarmed! I’m not changing the focus of this site to time-consuming food art! But May 5 was Cinco de Mayo as well as Children’s Day (Kodomo no Hi, historically a boy’s day holiday celebrated in Japan), one of the few occasions I’ll actually go all out to ... http://www.foodwebdirectory.com/food-web-directory/children%e2%80%99s-day-bento-lunch/ Reader “K” gave me a heads up that Target now stocks cheap lunch containers in their seasonal section in the front of the store, so I popped by and picked up a couple to try out over the weekend. Part of the Whim by Cynthia Rowley collection made by the Israeli ... http://www.foodwebdirectory.com/food-web-directory/review-cheap-lunch-containers-at-target/ This stunning berry-studded breakfast quinoa is from Dr. John La Puma's recent release - Chef MD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine. I've written about just a handful of books this year (more to come, I promise!), but I wanted to highlight this one for a few reasons. It's a fantastic ... http://www.foodwebdirectory.com/food-web-directory/warm-and-nutty-cinnamon-quinoa/ Kids love corn on the cob, but a whole ear is simply too big to fit inside of a bento box. One way you can include it in a bento lunch is to simply cut it into manageable segments like I did below, or even split it down the middle ... http://www.foodwebdirectory.com/food-web-directory/corn-on-the-cob-bento-lunch/