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October 5, 2006
Spinach update
We went to the Good Earth in Studio City on Sunday, and I ordered the perennial tofu scramble -- tofu sauteed with various and sundry vegetables, plus beans and pancakes. Enough to tip anyone's ass over.
Our waitress told me there was no spinach -- due to the E. coli trouble. Tofu scramble with no spinach? I was willing to take the risk, but Ilene, being a food scientist, knew that the time for spinach's return to restaurant menus hasn't yet arrived.
Well, the choice wasn't mine, since the Good Earth had no spinach -- but I could substitute any vegetable I wished.
I chose broccoli, and a fine tofu scramble arrived.
As always, our post-Good Earth now-ritual had Lulu dragging us over to Storyopolis so she could womanhandle the Snuffleupagus toys (they had about 50 of 'em).
But I anxiously await the return of spinach -- fresh, bagged and otherwise -- to store shelves and restaurant kitchens.
And since I've had such success with tomatoes this summer, I'm contemplating a try at planting winter greens on our side yard -- Swiss chard, collards, kale, maybe even some romaine lettuce. Time to hit the gardening books and get some seeds. Remember -- everything tastes better when you grow it yourself.
Posted by Steven Rosenberg at October 5, 2006 9:34 AM