When summer’s come into full swing, there are only so many sauteed greens you can eat before your head starts spinning. This simple oven frittata, light on the eggs and heavy on the greens, is a perfect shakeup to your greens routine, and you can dress it up for dinner or dress it down for a weekend breakfast (and the slices reheat beautifully for leftovers).
This soup looks homely, but I look forward to it every year. It’s a lesson in the power of simple ingredients: in mere minutes the chicken and fish sauce make a broth that tastes like it simmered for hours, and the sorrel elevates the whole thing from “basic chicken soup” to “energizing spring tonic.”
This soup is a riff on traditional Mexican sopa de albondigas, meatball soup. It’s bright and full of herbs and vegetables, perfect for spring.
This riff on a classic roasted asparagus bridges the gap between winter and spring: the last of the winter citrus and some nuts from the pantry meld with the first of the spring vegetables.
Delicious whole grains in your diet without hours of stove time! Great as a side dish with a protein and/or a vegetable dish, but also a perfect brown-bag lunch star.
Late last week my friend Matthew sent me a message: “Re: your food blog — If you take requests or suggestions, I’d love to see a salad or two from […]
Winter finally got to me. I usually maintain a fairly even keel about the season, and actually rather like the snow when it’s being picturesque (and when I can watch […]
Okay: let’s say you’ve made some Basic Seitan (or you decided that it sounded interesting, but weren’t totally convinced, and so you bought some — no judgment here!). But now you […]
I mentioned in the very first post of this blog that I often bring vegetarian/vegan dishes to potlucks so that more people can enjoy it. But it’s not just potlucks; […]
Let’s talk cactus. Depending on what food culture(s) you were raised in, you may be looking at this page thinking I’m off my rocker, but cactus is delicious. It’s sweet […]
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