Thanksgiving’s around the corner, and you can’t step outside without bloggers and food writers sharing their Thanksgiving recipes with you. (And yet, everyone still seems to agonize about what to make – and tradition usually still wins out over fancy new recipes. Curious, that.)
We decided not to travel this year – instead, we’re going to [...]
A hearty vegetarian stew that’s flavorful and warm enough for any cold night.
I promised in my last post, about homemade tomato sauce, that I’d soon write about the gnocchi I made to go with the sauce. I’m overdue in sharing.
The truth is, I started making the gnocchi with the thought of writing about how easy it was, how it seems so intimidating but really it’s a breeze, [...]
I remember when my mom used to make popsicles when I was a kid. She had a set of plastic molds, and for at least a few years there were always popsicles in the freezer for summer snacks, and they were so good. We used all kinds of juices, and they were the perfect way [...]
Summer is a glorious time to be an eater. And since we (hopefully) all eat, it’s a great time to be me and you.
There’s delicious, fresh food all around, much of it so fresh and ripe and tasty that it requires very little preparation. In winter, nothing tastes that great on its own, so it [...]
A lot of my CSA-member friends have been wondering (aloud, in my vicinity) recently: what are these green, twisty things in my CSA share? And then: can I eat them? How?
They are garlic scapes, and they taste, well, like garlic. People also call them garlic curls or pigtails. They’re the green part of garlic that [...]
After teasing us for several weeks, it looks like spring is here and it might stick around a while, this time. (We’ve had a few nice days in DC so far this year, but they’ve all been followed shortly by cold and rain.) It’s finally warm enough to comfortably go outside in a t-shirt, and [...]
If you read this blog regularly, you know that I’m a bit of a farmer’s market fanatic. During the spring, summer, and fall, I make it a point to get there nice and early, almost every single week. During the winter, I go less often, but I still try to go every couple weeks.
I’m lucky [...]
Of all the holidays, I find Thanksgiving the hardest to do as a vegetarian. That’s mostly because it’s so steeped in tradition, and in many families (certainly in mine) particular recipes are expected year after year. It’s okay, because many of the traditional side dishes are vegetarian by nature: sweet potatoes (maybe skip the marshmallows, [...]
In college, I invented a dish I called “apple tofu.” I was very proud of myself; it was the first recipe I’d ever made up on my own, and I thought it was pretty tasty. It was basically chopped-up apples, simmered with cubed tofu until they got soft and the tofu picked up the apple [...]
