Bonus Recipe: Lemons Preserved in Oil
I always have a jar of homemade preserved lemons in the fridge, as they are a real work horse of an ingredient to have on hand and are...
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May 13, 2020
Beet-Orange Purée with Brown Butter
This vibrant purée was truly delicious and, while I certainly enjoyed it as a foil for fish, I think that I will be making it again in...
Apr 22, 2020
Miso-Mayo
This is one of the world's most simplistic dipping sauces, which I make every spring to serve with steamed asparagus - both hot and cold....
Apr 20, 2020
Fermented Spring Ramp Green Sriracha Sauce (day 7)
It has been a week since I started making this Spring Ramp and Jalapeno Sriracha Sauce and in that time its original vibrant green has...
Apr 13, 2020
Bonus Recipe: Fermented Spring Ramp Green Sriracha Sauce (day 1)
About a year ago, I made a proper Sriracha, which was delicious. I ran out a few months ago and never got around to making it again even...
Mar 19, 2020
Chickpea, Arugula and Yogurt Dressing
This dressing will be a vibrant green on the day that you make it and will mellow to a lovely avocado color on the next, somehow...
Mar 5, 2020
Yogurt-Horseradish Sauce
This is a sauce that will take you 30 seconds to assemble and which works perfectly with crispy skinned fish like the arctic char in the...
Feb 25, 2020
Collard Green-Peanut Pesto
This was delicious, and the perfect color to raise flagging February spirits. I also have to say that, with the help of the inspiration...
Jan 22, 2020
Date - Root Beer Sauce
I was recently reminded of ham cooked in coca cola and, with half a bottle of root beer in the fridge and a hankering for pork chops,...
Jan 16, 2020
Meyer Lemon and Herb Sauce
This is exactly the kind of sauce you want to eat when it is cold and blustery out; it will remind you of summer. It is also really easy...
Dec 27, 2019
Bonus Recipe: Avocado Vinaigrette
This unexpectedly delicious vinaigrette was created in a panic during a "loaves and fishes" moment when I realized that the salad I had...
Dec 6, 2019
Warm Roasted Carrot Salad with Shabu Shabu Dressing
Since we have hit root vegetable season full-on, I have been trying to come up with new ways to use the myriad of carrots that have been...
Nov 24, 2019
Kale and Homemade Pepita Pesto
I made this because I also had spaghetti squash in my CSA box and I thought that a punchy kale pesto, using the seeds from the squash...
Nov 2, 2019
Bonus Recipe: Pique (Habanero Vinegar)
I had a friend in college from Puerto Rico, whose mother always had a bottle of this on the kitchen table to be happily dribbled over...
Oct 5, 2019
Tomato Sauce
I posted my Go-To tomato sauce recipe a couple of years ago as well as the quick version of it but, since I have improved on the recipe...
Sep 11, 2019
Bonus Recipe: Sriracha Sauce From Scratch (Day 7)
Is my Sriracha sauce the glossy bright red of the one that comes in a squeeze bottle (the one with a rooster on it that we all know)? No,...
Sep 7, 2019
Bonus Recipe: Cherry Tomatoes Confit
I had a glut of cherry tomatoes from CSA box overkill and decided to preserve them before it was too late. These keep for a really long...
Sep 4, 2019
Sriracha Sauce From Scratch (Day 1)
I had neither a bushel nor a peck of them, but A LOT of peppers have accumulated in the past weeks due to their regular appearance in ye...
Aug 7, 2019
Quick Cucumber Pickle
This week's CSA box contained tiny thumb sized cucumbers, floweing dill and new garlic so it seemed churlish not to make a pickle of...
Jul 10, 2019
Sauerkraut-Flaxseed Mustard
I will admit to coming up wit this combination simply because I am trying to incorporate flaxseed into my diet and got bored with...
Jul 6, 2019
Salade Niçoise Vinaigrette
Of my many recent diet-centric dishes, this salade Niçoise not the kindest on the hips because the salad is surprisingly high in...
May 21, 2019
The "Perfect" Salad with Shallot-Grain Mustard Dressing
I have been lucky enough to eat at downtown Manhattan restaurant, Via Carota, twice. Once I had the best risotto that I have ever had and...
Dec 4, 2018
When You Forget You Meant to Make Tomato Sauce Quick Tomato Sauce
I usually make a vat of tomato sauce a few times a year, freeze it in pint jars in my freezer and have it to hand whenever needed. Since...
Aug 6, 2018
Turmeric-Carrot-Ginger Dressing
This is a nice, vibrant, piquant dressing, particularly suited to the salad for which I made it. (It contained cauliflower which needs...
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