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🔁 Falafel and Vegetable Tacos
L. has been on my case again about the fact that I tend not to cook dishes a second time. As a fellow foodie, I thought that he...
Mar 22, 2019


Roasted Root Vegetable and Lentil Salad with Grain Mustard and Pumpkin Seed Oil Dressing
This is one of those easy salads that look and taste more complicated than they are - always favorite dishes of mine. It is also highly...
Feb 14, 2019


Roasted Daikon Fries
Blurry photo of really good alternative fries. The roasting removed some of the vegetable's "harsher edges" and the daikon batons...
Feb 10, 2019


Collard Green Salad with Butternut Squash Croûtons, Almond Butter Dressing
An easy peasy appetizer salad, which most people will not have had before. The dressing packs a full flavor punch, and the mix of hot and...
Feb 10, 2019


Caramelized Purple Brussels Sprouts
Your Brussels sprouts do not have to be purple, these just happened to show up in my CSA box, but you do have to make this dish. They are...
Feb 8, 2019


Silver Dollar Potato Pancakes with Pickled Herring and Soured Cream
There is nothing like a crispy potato pancake, especially silver dollar sized ones since they produce the best ratio of soft center and...
Jan 9, 2019


Corn Queso Dip with Tortilla Chips
As promised after our family holiday lunch, here is the most simplistic and truly yummy quick cocktail nibble/snack that you can imagine....
Jan 2, 2019


Oven Roasted Green Bean Fries with Yuzu-Kosho Yogurt Dipping Sauce
The easiest recipe in the world, a good way to get kids to eat veggies and a great alternative for fries. It is so simple that there...
Nov 11, 2018


Red Wine Poached Figs with a Salad of Bitter Greens and a Walnut Oil Dressing
Not my best photo of a rather pretty little dish one which would be, I suspect, rather more suited to a cheese course than served as an...
Oct 2, 2018


Bonus Recipe: Zucchini Blossom Fritters
L. is off today and my mom and I visited the Farmers market this morning, so I decided to transform the zucchini blossoms that I came...
Sep 19, 2018


Tomato Salad with Horseradish Vinaigrette
This is a beautiful salad, perfect for the last sweet, sun-kissed summer tomatoes. The horseradish adds a tiny bit of a kick, the basil...
Sep 5, 2018


Beet, Blackberry and Purple Perilla Salad
I made this a few weeks ago and served it on a bed of baby arugula; it turned out to be an interesting summer salad. L. felt that it...
Jul 26, 2018


Gazpacho
There are as many gazpacho recipes as there are families who make it, and I have eaten both traditional versions that are basically...
Jul 17, 2018


Southern Tomato Pie
I had read about Southern tomato pie in books and always thought that it sounded delicious. Unfortunately, none of the recipes that I...
Jul 17, 2018


Cauliflower Hummus
The universe being what it is, my delivery service made a mistake and sent me two cauliflowers instead of one because the cosmos knows...
Jul 8, 2018


Summer Caprese – Mozzarella, Peach and Ginger
I recommend this as a lovely addition to anyone's summer appetizer repertoire. It may sound like hyperbole but this really tastes how I...
Jul 3, 2018


Corn Salsa with Sweet Potato-Whole Wheat Chips
This was so simple to make and absolutely delicious - I kept on eating it while making it and actually had to consciously set it aside so...
Jun 26, 2018


Vegetable Pakora
This is a lovely way of using up all the odds and ends of vegetables and herbs that you have left in your hydrator at the end of the week...
May 18, 2018


Escarole Salad with Warm Anchovy Dressing and Rye Croûtons
This was supposed to be a fennel salad. Fennel is assertive - both in texture and flavor - and stands up really well to bold flavors so I...
Apr 15, 2018


Carrot and Carrot Green Pizza
My aunt recently sent me a recipe for a carrot pizza (original recipe and her notes attached below) and, while I was intrigued by the...
Apr 6, 2018


Cucumber and Daikon Salad
This is a light, crisp and refreshing salad that goes well with Thai or Vietnamese flavors and which also, if needed, tones down some of...
Feb 25, 2018


Cheese Soufflé
To those of you who have never made a soufflé before: forget everything you have ever heard - they are really not that hard to make. I...
Feb 24, 2018


Bonus Recipe: Welsh Rarebit Terrine
My mom and I have a mutual friend who is recovering from surgery and, whilst trying to think of an interesting and portable lunch to take...
Feb 7, 2018


20-Minute Challenge: Corn Soup with Vadouvan Cream
I have been tossing this idea around in my head for a while because I still had some summer corn in my freezer and felt it was time to...
Feb 1, 2018
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