The Bitten Word

Emeril's Turkey Meatloaf

Everyday Food (September 2010)

Turkey meatloaf is one of our favorite make-ahead foods for lunch during the work week. Seriously, it's got it all: It's easy to make in large quantities; it costs next to nothing; it's portable; it's low-fat, low-carb and high-protein.

What else could you want?

Well, flavor, for one thing.

See, gang, we didn't love this particular turkey meatloaf. Oh, it was fine. And we still ate it for five (count 'em!) lunches in a row.

But there's a lot we'd change about this before making it again. And it's nowhere near as good as our all-time favorite recipe for turkey meatloaf.

Okra Fritters

Everyday Food (October 2010)

There may be no Southern dish that's closer to our hearts than classic fried okra. It's hot and crunchy on the outside, with the great flavor of fresh okra inside.

We know okra can be somewhat divisive: Lots of people are turned off by it. We happen to love it, and as we've said before, if you think you don't like okra, it's just because you haven't fried it.

So when we saw these Okra Fritters in the October Everyday Food, we couldn't wait to try them.

How would they stack up to our beloved classic fried okra?

Blueberry-Banana Pancakes

Food & Wine (October 2010)

At our house, weekend breakfasts are typically an eggs-and-bacon affair.

Sometimes the eggs are scrambled or fried, with bacon on the side. Sometimes they're omelettes, with bacon on the inside. Or if we're feeling really crazy, we'll do a big scramble of ingredients and drop them in a tortilla. (Don't worry: You can have the bacon as an appetizer if doesn't work in your wrap. But God forbid we go a breakfast without bacon!)

It's the rare weekend morning when we have pancakes. Why rare? Well, eggs are quicker (and a whole lot less messy). Plus, a big stack of pancakes can seem like a lot of unnecessary carbs. Pancakes -- though a favorite of ours -- only get made when we have some great fruit we need to use or when we have a recipe we're dying to try.

So when we spied these Blueberry-Banana Pancakes in Food & Wine -- with their big slices of banana cooked into the batter -- we knew that pancakes were on the menu for Saturday morning.

Sautéed Sweet Potato Greens

A Bitten Word Recipe 

 
One of the best things about belonging to a CSA is being introduced to fruits (like green rhubarb) and vegetables (such as kohlrabi) that we've never cooked with before.

In this case, we met a vegetable we'd never even heard of.

Of course it stands to reason that sweet potatoes would have greens.  We mean, something's got to come out of the ground, right? But it never occurred to us that they'd be something you'd want to eat.

And we really never thought they'd turn out to be so delicious.