Rubbishy Cookery

  I’m lifting another one of my rubbishy recipes from the hit bestseller cabbage cookbook: Last seen here in Recipe #35, and is now internationally famous: But never mind all that hoopla! We won’t let fame go to our heads, will we? Nevair! So it’s the third night of Hanukkah 2025, the news is beyond dreadful, I’m sick with laryngitis, and I’m already done with latkes. I needed a comforting, healthy, easy, and rubbishy dinner tonight. Soba noodles in the pantry, I’m gonna make my famous dish from the cabbage cookbook: Ann so loved my rubbishy contribution to the book she gave me a generously praising paragraph intro and named the dish after me!  Let’s go! Ingredients: I know it’s called Cabbage Noodles in the book, but I don’t have any cabbage today. The main point of this recipe is to use whatever vegetables you have on hand. The main ingredients are the soba noodles, the soft cooked egg, the tamari, and sesame oil. I would go so far as to say that the chopped scallions and to...

  This is a Japanese-ish light dinner that is simple, but will knock your socks off with the subtle complexity of its flavours and textures. I didn’t invent it by any means, but it’s a mish-mash modification of actual recipes and deconstruction of dishes I’ve had at Japanese restaurants. Ingredients: The broccoli isn’t really part of the recipe, I’m just making it as a side dish. Directions: First, prepare your mise en place: Finely chop the ginger and chop the scallion into fine rings as above. Try to handle your extra firm silken tofu gentler than I have so it emerges from its packaging in a solid block rather than two iceberg shaped pieces with extra bits. Chop the silken tofu into delicate bite sized cubes. I’m saving half of my block for another day, possibly for a miso soup (see Recipe #2): Meanwhile, as I heat up a pot of water in which to cook my soba noodles, why not take advantage of the resultant steam for my broccoli side: After a few minutes, I have perfectly steamed a...

  If this recipe sounds familiar, it’s because it’s one of three of my rubbishy recipes featured in this best selling cabbage recipe book: On page 28: But here you will get the full recipe with step by step photos! Ingredients: As you can see from the photo above, all of my ingredients today have seen better days and are looking a little shabby. Some wasteful folks might even toss such pathetic odds and ends, but not us! We will make them shine in this simple and tasty slaw! Panch phora is a mixture of 5 spices, traditionally an Indian spice mix and usually consists of cumin seeds, brown mustard seeds, fennel seeds, nigella seeds, and fenugreek seeds. I used to have a supplier at the local farmer’s market but she has vanished and now I mix my own from individual spices and toast them lightly in the toaster oven: Missing from today’s mix is the nigella seeds, and I can’t really notice their absence. Everything else is pretty essential. Directions: Finely chop your cabbage without ch...